Thank you for participating in the last two Golf Chick polls and making your voices heard. I think the results are interesting, and not quite what I expected.
After Lorena Ochoa indicated she’s interested in competing in men’s events, I asked if you thought she should. I assumed most people would answer that she should just stick with the women and that the third answer (gimme a break) would be the most popular. As you can see, the two yes answers received a combined 52% while the no answers took 48%. With results so close, this seems to be quite the polarizing topic.
When I asked if golf course workers should have golf knowledge, I thought your answers might fall in line with what I got from the people I asked in person, which were almost unanimously “doesn’t matter as long as they’re hot.” Perhaps I was surrounded by a piggy crowd that day, maybe it was the fact that they were all men, or maybe they had liquid courage and felt the need to announce a predilection for hot chicks. Only 6% of you answered with them! The qualified yeses received a whopping 90%, with half of those feeling anyone working at a golf course should know about golf and half feeling the workers only need that knowledge if it helps them do their jobs. Perhaps most interesting are the 3% who don’t care either way – because they cared enough to answer that they don’t care.
Thanks again for participating, and if you have any burning questions, let me know for a possible future poll!
LPGA Reminds Wie That She’s a Sideshow
After failing to sign her scorecard on Friday, Michelle Wie was disqualified from the State Farm Classic. Only the LPGA failed to tell her about it until she had completed her round the following day.
After an imaginary journalist asked her how she felt about being used by the LPGA for the attention she brings to any event and milking another day of play out of her, Michelle Wie responded: “I was playing, like, really good out there, you know? I kind of, like, almost forgot how popular I am.”
At which point her father, B.J. Wie, took control of the “interview” to make some things clear:
“That just wasn’t right, what [the LPGA] did. She played a round she shouldn’t have. No one’s going to make Michelle do that except for me. With the scores she shot and the wave of publicity, now is the perfect time for her to play with the men again. I – I mean she – accepted a sponsor’s exemption to play the Reno-Tahoe Open next week on the PGA Tour. With Tiger out, she’s the biggest news in golf. With such a weak field and if she plays like she did this weekend, she could possibly even make the cut. But even if she fails miserably, her appearance there is good for my business – I mean her game. It’s just a bonus that our – um, her – participation in this relatively unimportant PGA event will steal some attention away from a women’s major since it’s played at the same time as the RICOH Women’s British Open. Sweet revenge. Two can play the media and fan manipulation game. We’re off the record, right?”
Imaginary reporter: “Way off the record. In fact, this conversation never happened.”
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