I counted 9 of the top 15 players as being from Korea. Man oh man, those ladies are doing well. 27 of the players who made the cut are from Korea. What is the explanation for this dominance??
i wonder what the stats are like when you count wins vs. total tournaments played. there have been a lot of successful korean women in the lpga for a while now.
I counted 9 of the top 15 players as being from Korea. Man oh man, those ladies are doing well. 27 of the players who made the cut are from Korea. What is the explanation for this dominance??
ok im going conspiracy theorist on this topic. Maybe all the koreans are sleeper cell and when the time comes they wil take the world. They did a mock up of it on the LPGA. So they know it will work, and with all the koreans at the top we have no spot for americans bringing moral down...
That's true but it's such an inaccessible game. I'd like to know a little more about the family backgrounds of the females on the LPGA Tour but I'm a bit too lazy to look it up.
As for the lack of successful men on the PGA Tour (with the exception of KJ Choi), I think a lot of it might have to do with mandatory military service. All Korean males have 2 years of mandatory military service. There are a few ways to get out of it like winning an Olympic medal or being on the National soccer team and making it to the round of 16. Also, the fact that golf is largely inaccessible to most Koreans but then, that brings us back to why Korean women have found so much success on the LPGA Tour.
Se Ri Pak is a bit of a legend in Korea, and she can be credited with some of the popularity in females.
I know there is a ladies pro tour in Korea. I heard/read somewhere that there have always been talented female golfers in Korea but Se Ri Pak was the one who paved the way for them to come to the LPGA Tour. Not that there were any restrictions holding them back. It's just that once they saw a fellow Korean achieve a great amount of success, they believed they could do the same.
Well that is a the crux of it Victory. Pioneers like Se Ri have a tougher row to hoe, but often open the floodgates. I have often thought if Lu Lianghuan (aka Mr Lu) had captured the Open Championship at Birkdale, we would have seen a half dozen Asian men who were major championship winners by now.
I was only casually listening to the US Open this weekend and heard them mention the influx of Korean talent. They referred to strong golf programs for women, but didn't really catch what the programs were. Maybe the men are put into different program (military like Victory said)?
June 30th, 2007, 10:58 PM
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