OK, Can We Start Talking About Yet Another Inbee Effect on the LPGA? Now Irene Cho Ties the Knot!

Ever since Inbee Park credited her rise to world #1 to her happiness over her relationship with her fiance (see Fairways and Forehands for the most recent mention!), does it seem to you that she's opened the engagement/marriage floodgates on the LPGA? Well, it's time to add Irene Cho (married) to the list that includes Hee Kyung Seo (married), Paula Creamer (engaged), Natalie Gulbis (married), Brittany Lang (married), Mariajo Uribe (married), Brooke Pancake (married), Paola Moreno (married)....

Of course, the bigger question is whether they'll all follow the Juli Inkster track rather than the Annika/Lorena track when/after that first baby is born!  But for now it seems Inbee is the role model!

Congratulations to Cristie Kerr and Natalie Gulbis!

I guess the late-December theme of Mostly Harmless is "transitions"!  Q-School results, Harukyo Nomura choosing the LPGA over the JLPGA for 2014, Paula Creamer's engagement, Ji-Yai Shin cutting back on her LPGA schedule in 2014, Momoko Ueda leaving the LPGA for the JLPGA next season, Lydia Ko leaving her life-long coach Guy Wilson as she relocates to the States....  In that vein, let me pass along my belated congratulations to Cristie Kerr and Erik Stevens on the birth of their son Mason (via surrogacy) and to Natalie Gulbis and Josh Rodarmel on their wedding!

[Update 1 (12/27/13, 7:57 am):  'Tis the season indeed!  Irene Cho is tying the knot on 2/1/14!]

[Update 2 (12/31/13, 9:03 am):  Mariajo Uribe recently tied the knot, too!]

Congratulations to Paula Creamer!

Paula Creamer is engaged!

What an amazing day yesterday!! #goingtomarrythemanofmydreams #iamengaged ❤️👰🎩❤️ pic.twitter.com/QV6nJx6gtG
— Paula Creamer (@ThePCreamer) December 16, 2013