I just got it back from the geek squad. For some reason I was getting Peter Kessler on The Golf Channel from it. Talk about time warps......

Here we go

1 Shin JY*

2 Ochoa*

3 Yang

4 Creamer* **

5 SH Lee

6  Hull

7 Tseng

8 V Hurst **

9 Pettersen

10 Wie **

11 Han

12 Jang

13 Kerr **

14 A Park

15 Stanford **

16 Webb

17 JY Lee

18 EH Ji

19 Feng

20 Castrale **

21 Lewis

22 IK Kim

23 Prammanasudh**

24 Pak

25 Pressel**

26  C Kim **

27 MH Kim

28 Stupples

29 NY Choi

30 Lincicome

*- Denotes winner of a major championship

**- Make the Solheim Cup team. I also predict no Asian American golfer(Under the age of 35. Call this the Pat Hurst clause) gets picked by Beth Daniel as a captain's selection so Wie, Hurst, Prammanasudh, C Kim or any others(Jane Park) will have to make it the old fashioned way. If you want to know why I say this, click here.

Hound Dog has his 2009 preseason picks out. And The Constructivist is threatening to have his soon. So I suppose it's time for me to chime in again, too. Let's see how lucky I can get with this years picks (because apparently I got very lucky with last year's).

Mulligan Stu's Top 30 for 2009

1. Ji Yai Shin

2. Lorena Ochoa

3. Paula Creamer

4. Cristie Kerr

5. Angela Park

6. Jee Young Lee

7. Karrie Webb

8. Michelle Wie

9. Suzann Pettersen

10. Seon Hwa Lee

11. Stacy Lewis

12. Yani Tseng

13. Jeong Jang

14. Hee-Won Han

15. Angela Stanford

16. Christina Kim

17. Stacy Prammanasudh

18. Song-Hee Kim

19. Karen Stupples

20. Eun-Hee Ji

21. Natalie Gulbis 

22. Ji Young Oh

23. Shanshan Feng

24. Amy Yang

25. Lindsey Wright

26. Na Yeon Choi

27. Ai Miyazato

28. Se Ri Pak

29. Minea Blomqvist

30. Sandra Gal

This is a once a year type calculation to be done after the season is over. I included all players that have over 4 million in inflation adjusted earnings. The data is inflation adjusted career earnings position, inflation adjusted career earnings, career earnings, and postion on career earnings list. Sometime next week I will have a list of all players in my database.

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While looking at some of the new profile pictures of the girls of the LPGA tour, I noticed that Sarah Oh's bio is still listed on the LPGA official site.

Although she apparently did not gain status at Q-School (an issue that if you've been paying attention you should be well versed in) her bio hasn't been removed as were other 2008 Rookies who've lost status (Violeta Retamoza, Sukjin Lee-Weusthoff, et al.).

Her bio isn't updated with the new, priority list information like all the others do, (she is still listed as non-exempt), which seems to say that the LPGA hasn't made an official decision on her future just yet.

Hopefully they'll have this all cleared up in no time.

Also, I just started a women's golf/tennis blog myself, if you care to read it:

http://ccbirdies.blogspot.com/

Player         Year            Money        Adjusted Money    Multiple

Zaharias     1950           $61,585           $421,400          6.84

Berg             1950        $190,878        $1,174,100          6.15

Suggs          1950        $190,251        $1,164,800          6.12

Smith            1950        $268,761        $1,348,800         5.02

Hagge          1950         $454,407        $1,843,700        4.06

Rawls           1951         $289,749        $1,591,800        5.49

Wright           1955         $370,709        $1,918,300        5.17

Whitworth     1959      $1,713,360       $5,251,300         3.06

Mann             1961         $506,659        $2,147,300        4.24

Haynie          1961      $1,055,868        $3,303,300        3.13

Rankin          1962        $887,070         $2,989,000        3.37

Caponi          1965     $1,389,577        $3,749,900        2.70

Blalock          1969     $1,293,937        $3,581,200        2.77

Carner          1970      $2,973,851        $6,392,100        2.15

Bradley         1974      $5,755,947      $10,093,000        1.75

Alcott             1975      $3,419,151        $6,428,500        1.88

Lopez            1977     $5,320,873         $9,131,500        1.72

King               1977     $7,637,617      $11,544,400        1.51

Daniel           1979     $8,786,604      $12,734,600        1.45

Sheehan      1980     $5,511,843        $8,831,600         1.60

Inkster          1983    $12,433,695     $15,326,600         1.23

Davies          1988      $8,521,964     $10,636,500         1.25

Sorenstam   1994    $22,573,192    $25,750,300         1.14

Webb             1996    $14,311,587   $16,539,,500         1.16

Pak                 1998    $10,153,220   $11,566,700          1.14

Ochoa            2003    $13,197,409   $13517,500           1.02

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Anyone know of any golf deal website.  I am currently looking to revamp my entire golf look. That is to say, I'm looking for clothes, hats, accessories, woods, irons, bags, etc.  I have all old clubs, hell im still playing Tommy Armour 845 silver scotts.  Its about time to upgrade!  Also, what is a pretty standard price on getting your clubs fitted?

Lastly, I went to one of those deal of the day tracking sites to see if there were any golf ones up there and I found one called www.14stix.com

has anyone heard of this before and what are your thoughts on all that ive said above.  Thanks a lot!

So I finally got around to posting my last ranking of 2008 today; in it, I seek to identify who among the LPGA rookie classes of 2006-2008 has had the best career.  Here's the list (see my Mostly Harmless post for my reasoning and the key stats I use):

Simply the Best

1. Ya Ni Tseng
2. Seon Hwa Lee
3. Morgan Pressel
4. Na Yeon Choi
5. Jee Young Lee
6. Angela Park
7. Eun-Hee Ji
8. In-Kyung Kim
9. Inbee Park

The Contenders

10. Ai Miyazato
11. Brittany Lang
12. Song-Hee Kim
13. Momoko Ueda
14. Jane Park
15. Hee Young Park
16. Ji Young Oh
17. Sun Young Yoo
18. Shanshan Feng
19. Louise Friberg
20. Teresa Lu
21. Amy Yang

Happy holidays, HD!  Thought your readers might be interested in the following rankings/profiles I've been doing over at Mostly Harmless since the LPGA season ended.

Final LPGA ranking.  Lorena's got company.  These 51 girls really do rock.

Class of 2009.  Hint:  Michelle Wie is not #1.  Nor is Stacy Lewis.  Or even Shiho Oyama....

Final JLPGA Ranking.  Speaking of Oyama, she barely made the top 10.  3 others who will be playing close to a full schedule on the LPGA next season are ahead of her.

Class of 2008.  Yup, I ranked all 30 of 'em--from million-dollar winners Ya Ni Tseng and Na Yeon Choi to the ones who did worse than Violeta Retamoza.  Yup, some did.

Class of 2007.  It was a tough call, but I put their ROY back on top.

After Christmas, look for my ranking of the top 32 Young Guns--the best players from the rookie classes of 2006-2008....

Miho Koga birdied her last 2 holes in the final round of the JLPGA Tour Championship Ricoh Cup to get to -6, then benefitted from a birdie-bogey finish by Yuri Fudoh and a bogey-double bogey finish by Mi-Jeong Jeon that dropped each to -5.  With this improbable win, Koga not only tied Fudoh for the most wins on tour in 2008 (4), but also passed Ji-Hee Lee for the #1 spot on the final JLPGA money list (120.85M yen to 119.65M).  I wonder how different the Lexus Cup results would have been if Koga and Fudoh (or, for that matter, Sakura Yokomine, who finished 3rd on the money list despite only winning once this season) had represented Japan on Team Asia?  It's kind of sad that a tournament sponsored by Toyota can't be scheduled to accommodate Japan's finest!

Today at the ADT is causing a stir. Ron Sirak wrote about it. Steve Elling had the following to say.

"I'm serious and I was tested two weeks ago, so I don't really know what's going on," she said testily.

Guess they hadn't heard that she was retiring.

"I have no idea, but they're not going to let me go," she said, forcing a laugh. "Yeah, I guess you get tested every other week now."

*****

Even for an organization known for making head-shaking decisions over the years, this ranks at the bottom of the latrine in terms of asinine, idiotic developments.

I'm not going to get into whether this is an insult or not. Annika has flouted rules or broke them in the past, and I've never been willing to give  her a free pass just because she's a golf superstar.

When was she tested before by the LPGA? Two weeks ago the LPGA was in Japan, Annika wasn't in the field. Three weeks ago the LPGA was in South Korea, Annika was playing a LET event in China. Four weeks ago, Annika played a LPGA event in China. Here's Annika's LPGA results for 2008.

Annika played in Mexico last week. Did Annika mean Mexico or the LPGA China event? Or did she mixup the LET and the LPGA? I don't know if the LET has a drug testing policy. Or did Annika make it up? I don't believe that.

No member of the media at the ADT noted the discrepancy, just Annika's anger. Did they give Annika a free pass or did no one know how LPGA schedule? Probably the later, which shows we golf bloggers know this tour better than the old fashioned media  that covers the sport.