-Tuesday Afternoon Scramble: 4:15 start. That should get us done before the dark of the night. Probably the last of the season as we change time this weekend.
-More Yani Tseng, this time with Michelle Wie when they went at each other for the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship back in 2004. The last three holes in the 36 hole match play final were decisive:
-Heading for the breakfast table. Had my eyes checked down at Rick Baurer's this morning. Things are a little fuzzy around the edges.
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-More Yani Tseng, this time with Michelle Wie when they went at each other for the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship back in 2004. The last three holes in the 36 hole match play final were decisive:
On the par-four 34th hole, it seemed both players would make par after safely hitting the green in two strokes. But when Wie missed her second putt from three feet, an astonished cry rose from some of the spectators and Wie sank to her heels. Tseng won the hole with a par.Neat historical stuff. In the seven years since, Tseng has done the most on the course but I wouldn't be surprised to see that Wie has taken more to the bank. Just guessing - the Wie Lass is definitely a marketable commodity even with her so so performance with the crooked sticks.
The 35th hole, a par 3, was halved in pars and it all came down to the 466-yard, par-5 36th , a hole that plays longer than its measured yardage because the fairway slopes uphill to the green.
Both players hit their second shots into greenside bunkers. Wie was some 30 yards from the hole in the left bunker. She hit her third shot too softly and faced a 35-foot birdie putt. Tseng was some 10 yards from the hole in the front bunker.
"I saw Michelle put it in the bunker," said Tseng. "Even though the distance was 225 yards, even if I didn't carry it I'm comfortable with the sand. So that's why I did it, (hitting it) right into the bunker."
Tseng left her bunker shot 12 feet short of the hole.
Wie putted first. When her ball tailed off just short of the hole, she slumped over for several long moments. Tseng paced back and forth studying her line, then stroked the putt. When it dropped into the hole for a winning birdie, she thrust her arms in the air.
-Heading for the breakfast table. Had my eyes checked down at Rick Baurer's this morning. Things are a little fuzzy around the edges.
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