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I have my own ranking of the best LPGA players.
I consider not only player quality, but do they compete enough to determine is their ranking justified.
1. Candie Kung
2. Jeong Jang
3. Lorena Ochoa
4. Mi Hyun Kim
5. Gloria Park
64. Annika Sorenstam
valeogut Sorry, but I have to state it as I see it.
There will be another post. Please do not take these post personally.

64. Annika Sorenstam-Are you sure you don't mean Charlotta? Ranking a person who is probably the best female golfer ever 64th totally blows the credibility of your poll out the window.

This thread probably belongs in the Tour Talk forum, but wherever it is, ranking Annika 64th doesn't even merit a defense.

I didn't know we opened a joke forum? Well if you when 10 or 11 times in a season I guess that's just what you get.

I moved this thread to Tour Talk where it belongs. Good catch valeogut.

I like the suggestion of the joke forum :nodsmiley

Hey I call 'em like I see 'em

Based on quality of play this year, mine are
1. Annika
2. Grace Park
3. Meg Mallon
4. Kandie Kung
5. Laura Diaz, cause she's on my laminated card </Friends joke>

It looks like oscc reposted the same topic in the General Golf forum again. I will restrain myself from saying anything critical of another member, but I'm thinking a bit.

Don't you have some type of former Moderator mojo that you can pull out for special occasions?

Nope, Keith, I'm just a regular guy who has to follow the rules like everyone else.

Thanks for the heads up buddy! My fellow moderators seem to be busy so to paraphrase my favorite sports commercial guy (Leon)....."Leaguegolf can't do everything!"

You should get something, kinda like the former Presidents. Get a secret service detail, ride on the fancy plane type of thing. There's gotta be something?

Oh, yeah. I got that "golden parachute." Problem is that it just helped me hit the ground harder! Seems that gold is heavier than nylon.

My take on Annika. I understand why everyone thinks she is the greatest woman's golfer. My opinion is that she is a great golf and a fine person put in a position that others have forced on her. She is not the one promoting herself as the world's greatest woman golfer, it is Callaway and to some extent the public.
I just don't think she has proven it.
Vijay Singh competed in 24 of 42 events played in the US. He also, like Annika, played in many other events around the world. Ted Purdy played in 33 of 42 events, 79% of events versus Vijay's 57%, and yet Vijay has a better scoring average. To be in the same class of world's best golfers, Annika would have had to play 18 US standard round play events instead of 12 and be ranked # 1. In 2002 she did play 18 events , but because of the relatively stronger fields in the LPGA versus the PGA she was only ranked 5th. She was ranked # 1 for 13 of the 26 weeks.
There is also the matter of refusing to play in the LPGA Tournament of Champions, because she does not "like the course". There is a controversy in the PGA regarding what some players believe that the PGA is doing when setting up the course for an event or choosing a new site for an event. They believe that they are setting the fairways widest at the point where the power hitters drop their ball and narrower where shorter range players hit their balls to, thereby eliminating strategy and skill from the game. This could be the exact reason Annika "chooses" not to play the LPGA Tournament of Champions because she cannot adapt her game to a course that is more suited to the majority of the better LPGA players. If she finished outside the top 10 it could affect her world ranking. After all, the LPGA Tournament of Champions, is the best of the best and if you cannot adapt your game to compete on the same course with the best of the best, does your sponsor have the right to promote you as the best lady golfer in the world? Maybe I should be challenging Callaway instead?
As I see it the only way she can prove she is in the same world class as Vijay is to play18 out of 25 standard round play events played in the US in 2005, one of which must be the LPGA Tournament of Champions. That is only six more than last year. She cannot play any more than 88% of the maximum number of events played by the other top 5 players. That is what Vijay did. And he got ranked # 1.