Thursday, September 8, 2011

Walmart NW Arkansas Championship Preview, Predictions, Pairings

Between the most excellent previews of the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship from LPGA.com, Hound Dog, and Tony Jesselli, Hound Dog's rundown of the fight for LPGA membership for next season, LPGA.com's pre-tournament interviews, and Ward Clayton's Stats and Stuff, as well as the limited time I have in which to finish this post, I'm just going to jump right in with my picks for this week's PakPicker competition at Seoul Sisters.com (based as usual on my own gut feeling, supplemented by the tournament history, LPGA.com's player performance chart for 2011, and Hound Dog's Hot 20, among other things):

1. Miyazato Ai
2. Choi Na Yeon
3. Miyazato Mika
4. Creamer
5. Kim In-Kyung
6. Pressel
7. Tseng
8. Lewis, Stacy
9. Kerr
10. Lincicome
11. Wie
12. Lee Seon Hwa

Alts: Park Inbee; Lang; Kim Song-Hee

As for tomorrow's pairings, here are my faves:

10th tee, 8:38 am: Cristie Kerr, Ai Miyazato, Morgan Pressel
1st tee, 12:00 pm: Ya Ni Tseng, Suzann Pettersen, Ryann O'Toole
10th tee, 8:27 am: Karrie Webb, Paula Creamer, Brittany Lincicome
10th tee, 12:11 pm:  In-Kyung Kim, Tiffany Joh, Ji Young Oh
10th tee, 12:33 pm: Song-Hee Kim, Inbee Park, Hee-Won Han
1st tee, 12:11 pm: Stacy Lewis, Michelle Wie, Sandra Gal

How about you?

[Update 1 (9/9/11, 4:46 am):  Ruthless Mike surveys the pairings most likely to get serious air time on Golf Channel today!]

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