Hi, this is the first post (at the 4th attempt grrrrr!) for a blog about golf - from the left handed perspective :-). I need to get used to this blogging lark so this post starts with a mention of lefties in action now, notably Mike Weir in the PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Hawaii and Sophie Hunter who is aiming to be the only lefty player on the Ladies European Tour through the LET Q-School currently going on in La Cala, Spain.
Might as well deal with Mike Weir first. He came last! Though losing out to Woods, Furyk and Ogilvy is no shame. Interesting that BBC online seem to think he's there as a straight replacement for Lefty Mickelson with Furyk there for coming 2nd on the money list while the PGA Tour website says it for their record in last year's majors. Journalists, eh!
So, to Sophie Hunter. Little known, she has only played a few times on the LET and an extensive search - and i mean i spent minutes on this (which is webspeed for hours to non-internauts) threw up very little at all. Anyway, her fan club starts here :-) YAY Soph! She had a good start to Q-School yesterday finishing up in a pack on joint 10th on one under. It looks like she had a nervy start bogeying the first but a couple of birdies left her at -1 at the turn. More birdies at 14 and 15 were followed by bogeys at the short part 3 16th and 17 but a steady par at 18 meant it was an excellent round.
Needless to say there's no mention of the only lefty in the field on the coverage, focusing more on 'glamour girl' Dana Lacey (ok, she's cute) and Faldo protege Kiran Matharu who is on level par which is a good start for the 17 year old considering she scraped into this final stage of qualifying in Italy.
Anyway, more later on Sophie's progress in Q-School today and since we're on ladies golf i'll throw my tuppence in about Michelle Wie currently crashing in another men's event in Japan.
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