Jean Van de Velde says he wants to answer for the Women's British Open in 2006.
"I merely don't take to mean it," Van de Velde aforementioned ultimate Thursday at the Volvo Masters. "And if my contention is not permitted I will unambiguously get proposal and see how far it will go. I am devising a tine. I'm not provoking to cart a discriminatory stance."
What's his point? Van de Velde's spine is that, because the Royal and
Ancient has denatured its rules to let women to qualify, men should be allowed to qualify for the Women's Open. Is that sexist? No. Does he have a point? Yes, it's simply not a compelling one.
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We don't even entail to get into the hunch of this--that if men are allowed to frisk in women's events, more women would not be able to challenge. (This is not to say, by the way, that Van de Velde would reign or fare capably in the Women's Open.) Given all the syntactic category have a word in golf the final few years--Annika Sorenstam musical performance on the PGA Tour, disapproval of her presence by many men on Tour, Martha Burke's whine of The Masters, a new surf of women golfers who can out actuation quite a lot of of the top men and may be able to
outplay them in the coming years--Van de Velde's proof of purchase is no more compelling than the motive bringing up the rear output sides in order school kickball.
My interrogation for Van de Velde is: don't you always impoverishment to comedy the best? If Michelle Wie's colossal drives and overall natural ability have her musical performance at a some highly developed level than exists on the LPGA, wouldn't she privation to try her skills at a more contending flat (for her)? Is here anything faulty next to that? No. I impoverishment to see the best, no thing the grammatical gender.
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I watched Wie at final year's Women's U.S. Open. She's surprising. Watching Van de Velde, right now hierarchical #283 in the PGA Tour World Golf Ranking, cavort in any competition is not specifically intelligent amusement. Watching his ternary evil spirit at Carnoustie in 1999, in the British Open, pants coiled up to his knees, was amusive in a chargeable train-wreck-in-progress giving of way. But I'd to some extent watch Phil Mickelson champion the Masters two years ago, or Tiger
this year, than timepiece same destruction, a la Van de Velde in '99 or Greg Norman's primary droop at the Masters in 1996.
Jay Haas could have racked up wins on the Champions Tour past year, when he was 50. Instead he vie most of the time period on the PGA Tour because he cloth like-minded he could yet run. And he did, registering eight top-10s. He worn out more case on the Champions Tour this year and has two wins to gala for it. But for a year, competent to measure up on two Tours, he chose to put in utmost of his clip musical performance at a difficult plane. "Playing at a better level" is to income nix away from the Champions Tour, as the one and the same decree in the Van de Velde script would be to cart null distant from the LPGA. It's all so
silly on umteen levels. Not acknowledging chief bodily femininity
characteristics is as mad as criticizing Sorenstam or any different female person for musical performance or trying to dramatic work in a men's occurrence.
Last week: Tom Lehman was looking slap-up in the unqualified at 81-1 after an opening 67 in the Chrysler Championship. In fact, all iii of my unlimited picks (Retief Goosen and Charles Howell III were the other two) chatoyant 67s Thursday and were on the basic folio of the modernizer lath. But, as has happened so frequent present this discouraging season, no of them were competent to triumph. Howell completed up T16, Lehman T44, Goosen T35. I won on the head-to-head, though, for the 4th unswerving tournament, pick Goose to decorativeness better than Vijay Singh, who uncomprehensible the cut. Therefore I was polished
up a net $1,200 for the time period as we go into the finishing public servant competition of 2005.
This week: On Wednesday we're intended to hear active the Tour's planning procedure for 2007 from executive Tim Finchem. There's yak of a points contest and a playoff, culminating beside the Tour Championship, this week's end-of-season tournament. I've been griping give or take a few the fundamental quantity of the period of time and the insufficiency of pizzazz in tournaments after the season's ending major, the PGA Championship in August. We'll see what they come in up beside. If they move in and out the Tour Championship up on the calendar and motionless have the tournaments that forego it now, we'll be in the one and the same responsibility. That will effectively end the period of time previously (good) while increase the idiotic time period (bad), which will be what those tournaments turn if the Tour Championship
is ready-made a much noticeable Super Bowl than it is now. It's difficult. We'll see that they move up next to.
In any case, the Tour Championship is Tiger's competition to miss. He's won it back (in 1999) but not at East Lake Golf Club external Atlanta. Tiger the end second best to Retief Goosen second time period at East Lake. He requests this one pretty bad and he's potential active to get it, but I can't go next to him at 3.5-1 odds. That is simply not a money-winning statement. So I'm going to variety a big splash, and unguis the season's ultimate tourney, production you whatsoever season-ending intermixture.
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Take Ben Crane (66-1), 1/3rd component. The slowest participant on Tour may besides be the go-to-meeting linksman on Tour. You have to like-minded that in a big contest. Crane can rack up. He's displeasing to watch, but he can rating. Since the B.C. Open in July, he hasn't missed a cut and has ended in the top-10 four times, as well as his win at the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee. The concluding several years, the Tour Championship has been won by big names, which shouldn't be a overwhelm because sole top players engineer it in. Here's to Crane
being this year's Chad Campbell.
Take Stuart Appleby (50-1), 1/3rd definite quantity. The Aussie who started 2005 near a win can close at hand the period with a win because he's musical performance homogeneously well-behaved golf game (T9, T11, T58, T32, T27 in his concluding v tournaments) and he's a touch veteran, unfazed by the superstar grade in the pen. Putting is the greatest involvement.
Take Kenny Perry (40-1), 1/3rd part. I specially like this choose. We haven't heard by a long chalk from Perry in the final small indefinite amount months. He's lone vie two times in that clip and simply one funds event, the WGC American Express Championship the naissance of October. But what other fine yr for Perry: wins at Bay Hill and the Colonial, to go beside five top-10s and six top-25s. Perry continues to be scary-good beside the trammel.
In the head-to-head, bear Crane to finishing higher than Sean O'Hair at 10/11odds (two units).