I'll give the LET a chance to redeem itself for having a rubbish website. I'm going to send Sophie Hunter a congratulatory message for getting her tour card but i don't have a Scooby Doo where to send it so I shall send it to the LET and ask them to forward it.
The Men's European tour mention that they would do such a thing in their FAQs.
Will let you know if anything happens.
Monday, 27 November 2006
Good job noone's looking!
I guess it's a good job noone is reading this blog yet.
Having got excited that with Sophie Hunter winning a full card for the 2007 Ladies European Tour there would be a left handed lady (and English) golfer to follow I have just found out that this isn't quite the case.
Googling the results for Q-School brought up an article from Golf Today in 2005 profiling that year's Q-School qualifiers including Swede Karin Borjeskog. Now I was sure that i'd read somewhere Sophie was the only lefty on the LET. So back to the LET's website and Sophie's profile which says 'Plays left handed, the only player on tour to do so.' Back to the Golf Today article and it says that Karin is the only other left handed player apart from Sophie Hunter. But then the LET's profile of Karin throws up 'Is one of only three left handed players on the LET.'
Confuzled! lol
Anyway, my bad for not knowing there was another one although by looking at her profile she doesn't swing to the UK that often for tournaments and her best results in 2006 were 68th/70th place so she's probably not going to generate much attention.
But we shall follow her too :-)
Lol, i'm going to have to double check all the lefty blokes now.
Having got excited that with Sophie Hunter winning a full card for the 2007 Ladies European Tour there would be a left handed lady (and English) golfer to follow I have just found out that this isn't quite the case.
Googling the results for Q-School brought up an article from Golf Today in 2005 profiling that year's Q-School qualifiers including Swede Karin Borjeskog. Now I was sure that i'd read somewhere Sophie was the only lefty on the LET. So back to the LET's website and Sophie's profile which says 'Plays left handed, the only player on tour to do so.' Back to the Golf Today article and it says that Karin is the only other left handed player apart from Sophie Hunter. But then the LET's profile of Karin throws up 'Is one of only three left handed players on the LET.'
Confuzled! lol
Anyway, my bad for not knowing there was another one although by looking at her profile she doesn't swing to the UK that often for tournaments and her best results in 2006 were 68th/70th place so she's probably not going to generate much attention.
But we shall follow her too :-)
Lol, i'm going to have to double check all the lefty blokes now.
Sunday, 26 November 2006
Lefty Golf Today
I was away with friends yesterday so i'm back today bleary eyed and checking out what's going on.
To finish off with the LET Q-School I think their final coverage of the event is poor. There's an article going on about Sam Head, Kiran Matharu and a couple of others but there's not even a list or picture of the 28 qualifiers.
There is also a larger photo gallery accessible at the bottom and while the photographer has done a good job of came the same pose again and again and again in the different players the pictures available on the site are limited. There is only one of our lefty girl Sophie who qualified but multiple pictures of others.
So basically, LET website. Rubbish.
A big YAY! for Australian Richard Green (don't care about the Ashes lol). The lefty Aussie whom i followed a bit at US Open Qualifying at Walton Heath this year notched up a nifty second place in his homeland at the Australian Masters behind England's Justin Rose. People seem to have made much of a win drought for Rose but he's still only 26 and he has been playing really well the last few months in the US but just didn't seem to be able to close out a win there so well done to him.
That'll do!
To finish off with the LET Q-School I think their final coverage of the event is poor. There's an article going on about Sam Head, Kiran Matharu and a couple of others but there's not even a list or picture of the 28 qualifiers.
There is also a larger photo gallery accessible at the bottom and while the photographer has done a good job of came the same pose again and again and again in the different players the pictures available on the site are limited. There is only one of our lefty girl Sophie who qualified but multiple pictures of others.
So basically, LET website. Rubbish.
A big YAY! for Australian Richard Green (don't care about the Ashes lol). The lefty Aussie whom i followed a bit at US Open Qualifying at Walton Heath this year notched up a nifty second place in his homeland at the Australian Masters behind England's Justin Rose. People seem to have made much of a win drought for Rose but he's still only 26 and he has been playing really well the last few months in the US but just didn't seem to be able to close out a win there so well done to him.
That'll do!
Saturday, 25 November 2006
Who is Sophie Hunter?
Today, Sophie Hunter won her card at Q-School to play on the Ladies European Golf Tour in 2007.
She was born in Lincoln on January 25th 1978 so she is an all grown up 28 years old. At 5'3" she's shorter than me and i wonder if that's a disadvantage for lady golfing. She probably has a perma-tan as she now lives in the Algarve (doesn't it get a bit hot in the summer) although she'll probably be spending more time away from there now in places like Kazakhstan andRomania (well if the LET published its 2007 schedule - jesus only behind every other tour) as she makes her way in the field of competitive golf.
My golf buddy Adele says that there are a lot of lesbians in lady golf but Sophie is a very attractive lady :-)
Apparently she gained her PGA qualification through the De Vere Belfry which sounds pretty top class. I found that in some article from a Portuguese paper aimed at wrinklies which also said that the author had recommended some sports psychologist to her which may or may not have helped depending on how you look at it (COUGH triple/quadruple bogey COUGH).
This post has the only pictures of her i've come across. One is from the LET website player's section which is tiny and about 5 years old, the playing one from Friday which is a good one but you can just about see her in the distance and the third one is one from Portugal Resident which, I wouldn't be surprised if she ever reads this blog, she'd ask me to remove lol.
Anyway, Sophie, you've won you card, now keep it :-)
I shall be focusing on left golfers on tour for the 2007 season (damn, missed the first half of the European Tour 2007 and its still November 2006) and Sophie will be our left handed lady.
YAY! Sophie Hunter Q-School qualifier
I am fully re-writing this last post as i went off for a snooze and realised that i'd missed something quite significant. 'Joint 27th with one other person' is the bit that didn't twig. 28 players get full cards for the LET in 2007.
So, with one more check of the scoreboard as it at 2.45pm GMT, Sophie is joint 27th with Martina Gillen. The only players left out on the course are those above her on the leaderboard which means:
SOPHIE HUNTER HAS WON A FULL CARD TO PLAY ON THE LET IN 2007.
CONGRATULATIONS SOPHIE :-)
I started this blog a week earlier than I intended to because she was in Q-School and i'm pleased to have highlighted her. The LET now has a left handed lady professional golfer on the full tour (ok, category 8 playing rights) so it was worth giving her a bit of love and attention these last few days.
As a top 28 finisher she is awarded Category 8 playing rights. According to Q-School information on the LET's website that means she 'may not play every week' but will 'maximise' her opportunities to play.
I have no idea what that means but hopefully we can find that out.
I'll do one more post with a profile then i'm off out :-)
Jeez, i wish i had gone to La Cala this week now!
So, with one more check of the scoreboard as it at 2.45pm GMT, Sophie is joint 27th with Martina Gillen. The only players left out on the course are those above her on the leaderboard which means:
SOPHIE HUNTER HAS WON A FULL CARD TO PLAY ON THE LET IN 2007.
CONGRATULATIONS SOPHIE :-)
I started this blog a week earlier than I intended to because she was in Q-School and i'm pleased to have highlighted her. The LET now has a left handed lady professional golfer on the full tour (ok, category 8 playing rights) so it was worth giving her a bit of love and attention these last few days.
As a top 28 finisher she is awarded Category 8 playing rights. According to Q-School information on the LET's website that means she 'may not play every week' but will 'maximise' her opportunities to play.
I have no idea what that means but hopefully we can find that out.
I'll do one more post with a profile then i'm off out :-)
Jeez, i wish i had gone to La Cala this week now!
Now we wait but the outlook isn't great!
Left handed LET Q-Schooler Sophie Hunter has finished her final round now. Out of the blocks on fire she racked up 3 birdies in a row from the 3rd before a bogey spoiled the party but she reached the turn at -2 which is exactly what she needed to give her the chance of a full card.
Three bogeys back to back however from 10 really peed in the pool before she got a shot back at 16 to finish on even par and a score of +5 and joint 35th. The top 28 automatically get a full card.
To be positive she is just one shot off a group who are joint 27th so she can afford, all other things being equal, for one golfer to improve a shot but she would then need the rest of the group to drop a shot. As it stands that would mean 7 players. A long shot but not out of the question.
If it stays as it is though Sophie will win a category 10 exemption which gives her limited playing rights on the LET next year. That should include the odd English event so it would be nice to watch her in action maybe at Chart Hills in June 2007.
Off to bite nails!
Three bogeys back to back however from 10 really peed in the pool before she got a shot back at 16 to finish on even par and a score of +5 and joint 35th. The top 28 automatically get a full card.
To be positive she is just one shot off a group who are joint 27th so she can afford, all other things being equal, for one golfer to improve a shot but she would then need the rest of the group to drop a shot. As it stands that would mean 7 players. A long shot but not out of the question.
If it stays as it is though Sophie will win a category 10 exemption which gives her limited playing rights on the LET next year. That should include the odd English event so it would be nice to watch her in action maybe at Chart Hills in June 2007.
Off to bite nails!
Go Sophie! - Part 2
Right, i've crawled out of my wee bed at 9.25am (hey, i'm on holiday!) to have a look at how things are going for Sophie Hunter, our lefty lady aiming for the LET in 2007. Some sort of gypsy's curse or something meant that she had two disastrous holes yesterday to undo all her great work in the first two rounds to drop her from an automatically qualifying level par position to +5 and joint 38th. The top 28 (and no ties) get a full LET 2007 card.
My view is that +3 or maybe +4 will be where that 28th place sits so Sophie has to turn in a round of the week to give herself a chance of that card - most likely through a play-off.
The Q-School event is being held at La Cala in Spain so it's 2 hours ahead in time. She teed off at 0900 in Spain meaning that she's been out for about two and a half hours now. However the LET website is 2 years behind every other golf website (well the 'merrican ones) in its delivery of live scoring.
I'm pleased to say though that LET live scoring has her at -3 after 6 holes, putting her in joint 19th place. Talk about nail biting! Go Sophie, Go Sophie! In reality she's probably into or heading into the last 6 holes so that scoring is at least 6 holes behind (bad LET website) so i will be on the coffee and cigarettes all day (although i don't drink coffee or smoke) to see if the LET will have its one and only left handed pro golfer in 2007 which, in case you were wondering, is the reason for all the excitement.
Left handers seem to be very under-represented on the pro tour with only a handful on the men's US PGA and European Tours although i'll look at that in other posts. One reason though might be to do with handed-ness. i am right handed but play left and many lefties i know are the same. What that means is left handers may actually play right handed. But i digress.
I know there is the Australian Masters event on this weekend but i don't have time to look at what lefties, if any, are doing there, so this last few days has been about Sophie Hunter.
My view is that +3 or maybe +4 will be where that 28th place sits so Sophie has to turn in a round of the week to give herself a chance of that card - most likely through a play-off.
The Q-School event is being held at La Cala in Spain so it's 2 hours ahead in time. She teed off at 0900 in Spain meaning that she's been out for about two and a half hours now. However the LET website is 2 years behind every other golf website (well the 'merrican ones) in its delivery of live scoring.
I'm pleased to say though that LET live scoring has her at -3 after 6 holes, putting her in joint 19th place. Talk about nail biting! Go Sophie, Go Sophie! In reality she's probably into or heading into the last 6 holes so that scoring is at least 6 holes behind (bad LET website) so i will be on the coffee and cigarettes all day (although i don't drink coffee or smoke) to see if the LET will have its one and only left handed pro golfer in 2007 which, in case you were wondering, is the reason for all the excitement.
Left handers seem to be very under-represented on the pro tour with only a handful on the men's US PGA and European Tours although i'll look at that in other posts. One reason though might be to do with handed-ness. i am right handed but play left and many lefties i know are the same. What that means is left handers may actually play right handed. But i digress.
I know there is the Australian Masters event on this weekend but i don't have time to look at what lefties, if any, are doing there, so this last few days has been about Sophie Hunter.
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