After her round at the JTBC Founders Cup on Thursday, Se Ri Pak advised GC that 2016 might be her closing complete season on tour. The retrospective articles have already begun... And they're all nicely-deserved.
I nonetheless recollect watching a very young Se Ri win the 1998 US Women?S Open over Jenny Chuasiriporn in a playoff. (Yeah, she won the 1998 McDonald?S LPGA Championship-- now the Women's PGA -- in advance that year, however the US Open is the only that caught with me.) Her two majors prompt the avalanche of Korean -- and other Asian -- gamers which can be this type of dominant pressure at the girls's excursions these days.
Se Ri wasn't just a excellent player, she became a laugh to look at. She introduced some spice to the brewing contention among Annika Sorenstam and Karrie Webb, to create an worldwide Big3 at the LPGA. The Korean-Swedish-Australian trio turned into some thing new in women's golfing, and after years of American domination they added in a whole new international target market.
I hope that since Se Ri said 2016 would be her last full season, we'll still get to see her play in a few events going forward. She says she plans to focus on helping young Koreans get ready to play the tours, and that shouldn't be too hard for her.
After all, if there may be a Big3 of the modern-day sport, you can make a controversy that it is Arnold Palmer, Seve Ballesteros and Se Ri Pak. (If we went for a Mount Rushmore of Golf, Tiger could probably take the fourth spot.) Their impact goes thus far past statistics that they're in a category by themselves.
Here are hyperlinks to simply three of the posts that have been finished about Se Ri's retirement thus far:
- Golf Digest
- ESPN
- Golf Channel
0 comments