Friday, October 19, 2007

Is This Where Meena Lee Turns Her Season Around?

At the start of this season I picked Meena Lee to have a breakout year. In keeping with the Mostly Harmless Jinx and the trials and tribulations of the 100-Yen Nishijin Crystal Ball, she has thus far proceeded to have the worst season of her short career. But there she sits at the top of the Hana-KOLON leaderboard, along with Suzann Pettersen, at the end of the first round. On a day when only 6 broke par, many squandered hot starts (cf. Kang, Soo-Yun; Ahn, Sun-Ju; Hetherington, Rachel; Lee, Seon Hwa; Ochoa, Lorena; Pak, Se Ri; Lu, Teresa; Hjorth, Maria; Wessberg, Linda; Kim, Christina), others dug themselves into holes (cf. Kerr, Cristie; Kim, Mi Hyun; Ji, Eun-Hee; Choi, Na-Yeon; Shin, Ji-Yai; Ahn, Shi Hyun), and many shot themselves out of contention (cf. Kim, Christina; Choi, Hye Jung; Park, Angela; Lee, Jee Young; Gulbis, Natalie), Meena made like the little engine that could. If she wins this week, she just might squeak her way into the ADT Championship and walk away with the $1M prize. Hey, stranger things have happened (cf. Granada, Julieta)! Sure, at -3 she has to worry about 27 other people with similar aims, but until Pettersen caught fire on the back it looked as if the rest of the field wanted to spot her as many shots as possible heading into the weekend....

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