Originally Posted by
JeffDime
J Ko doing her thing, but DJ has pulled every shot so far. Not great to see. Early, but it’s been every wood and iron shot. Hope he corrects it.
Question Jeff, we always had a local LPGA tourney. It was the Phar Mor. Then owner got nabbed for embezzling hundreds of millions and the Pittsburgh-based grocery store chain Giant Eagle took it over. My buddy was an exec then and still is with them.
He’d grab me and we’d play with the lady pros for a few years back late 90s. Was really neat experience. They were so damn good from 175 to the cup.
Played with Michelle McGann one year. Pro I didn’t know another year.
That was Se Ri Pak’s rookie year. Was on a heater coming in and she won. That was pre-Yao Ming, and my first exposure to the crazy Asian national pride thing when they hit it big on a global stage.
There was I’d estimate upwards of 3k South Koreans there following her like deadheads stop to stop. They were there even earlier in the week. Funniest part is they all had these big signs with her picture on one side, and Chan Ho Park on the other side. It felt like you were attending an event in Seoul.
Was Pak the first or were there other South Koreans before her? I was just curious who started the craze and made every South Korean girl dream of being the next big golf star?
By the time I started paying attention again it felt like the LPGA was less popular and it was all Asians up top and Americans had tuned out. Before that it was Lopez, Inkster, Daniels, and then Annika.