A great presentation with a moving commentary, WM.

Last time I watched TV Lexi led by 4 and was at -7.

My wife and I had planned golfing with our daughter and son,

which is the first time in years so that I couldn't care much

for Lexi leading. Four of us had a great day for a time together.

But appreciate your reporting much.

Thank you!

I appreciate your comment, Doc. Thank you.

Rather than a press report, this was a "personal" report or an essay.

As I was in a hurry to get the webpage on the website, it's not as complete as I like to have.

I may give some more fine-tuning on this webpage to make it better.

After watching 6th hole the last and second last group playing, 

my wife and I went to the concession stand and stood on the 

long line. There were a young lady from Poland and a couple 

from Turlock 20 miles south to Modesto before us and we chatted

about the leaderboard. We all agreed that Lexi would win, but we

never know. We had the most delicious hotdog in two years

and went to the 11th hole where Lexi missed a short bogey putt

and ended up having double bogey. It was the hole that caused 

momentum change for Lexi.

The fairways were narrow and the roughs were so thick and tough that

most of the players had to lay out if the ball landed on it. But there are a few 

could play out of rough to the green. Both Lexi and Saso have enough strength 

that they played the ball out of rough. But somehow Lexi was very defensive on her 

play after the 1st hole. She tried to let the ball run up to the green so many 

times, being afraid of the ball off the green if she attacked the pin.

Saso was consistently played aggressively for 4 days including Sunday. Her ability 

to play the ball in the rough to the green made her dominate the field. Her aggressive 

play hurt her at the beginning of the final round, but she did not give up. Her ability 

to play out of rough helped her winning the playoff as well. 

Lee6 did not have the swing speed that she could play out of the rough.

If her driver ended up in the rough, par was in doubt. She simply did 

not have the shots to win it.

I felt so sorry for Lexi. I was thinking Greg Norman lost to Nick Faldo in 

Masters blowing large lead on Sunday. Since then, Norman could not recover from 

the defeat. 

Congratulation to the winner, Yuka Saso(19) of the Philippines.

Here comes another rising star in future LPGA. She won the
prestigious US Open at the young age of 19 like Inbee Park in 2008.

It was great to see her overcome initial mishaps(2 double bogeys
at 2nd and 3rd) to be the winner. Perseverance is a virtue!

I felt sorry for Lexi Thompson. She could not hold the lead of 5 strokes

ahead over the rest of the field leaving 8 holes to be played. The trouble
was started at the 11th hole with double bogeys due to the errant chip shot from
the green-side rough. It was a downfall from that point on and The bogey at
relatively easy 17th hole was the final blow to her. I wish Lexi would put
her chin up because once again she has proved she is one of the dominant players
in LPGA. Who knows! Maybe the next time would be the charm!

Korean players had won 7 out of the last 10 US Opens and this is one of
a rare off-year for them. Thanks for our WM for this presentation! KJ

PS, I was looking for Dr 온 and one of my niece and her husband, who are members in that club

all over among spectators without prevail. KJ

It was very nice and exciting for us to be in a crowd watching young 

ladies competing in the beautiful but challenging golf course after more 

than a year of our absence. But it was not funny at all that everything I did or saw the first time 

after COVID19 made me feel like I did it just yesterday. I wonder why someone 

said that Christmas is coming every 3 days when you get old.

Because tickets were sold only one-fifth of capacity, it was very easy to navigate 

golf course and watch it very closely to the players. Many Indians were visible 

because of the new phenom Ganne, the 17-year-old Indian American. Chinese Americans 

came to see Feng. Of course, Koreans were there hoping for another US open for 

Korean players. Daly City where the club is has a large Philippino community. They 

were rooting for Saso. Crowds were dominated by Asians in the venue held 

in the city where it is populated mostly by Asians and the majority of dominant players were

Asians. Lexi was a lone American girl playing with Saso and Ganne. Did Lexi felt 

pressure because of the atmosphere LPAG created? Nobody knows but 
evidently she lost. In the end, Saso won. And, there, her dream came true. 

Sport / Golf

Who is Yuka Saso? Philippine-Japanese teen US Open champion on the cusp of Olympic qualification

• A dual citizen of Japan and the Philippines is a fan of Rory McIlroy, who told her to go out 
  and win the US Women’s Open trophy
• Double Asian Games gold medallist in 2018 now expected to be at Tokyo 2020 Olympics
  this summer
• Saso, who has a Filipina mother and a Japanese father, hence her Japanese name,^[6] started training in the sport of golf at the age of eight in 2009.^[