HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. €" Shi Hyun Ahn killed a robin with her tee shot at the ninth hole Friday at the McDonald's LPGA Championship.
Reuters' writer Larry Fine walked into the aftermath with marshals buzzing over how the bird appeared to €blow up€ on impact. One of the marshals marched out and grabbed the dead bird by the tail, carrying it off to some nearby wild grass and tossing it. As Ahn approached her ball, there were dead feathers scattered around it, but she was undeterred, lasering her approach to 10 feet.
€Thanks for picking up the carnage€ Reuters' quoted Ahn's caddie, Paul Martinez, telling the marshals.
Ahn didn't convert the birdie putt, perhaps some cosmic justice Redemption thy name is 4-iron. It's not that Sean O'Hair's tee shot at Quail Hollow Club's 17th was the steeliest of shots, and his bogey followed by a three-putt at the last made for a nervous few minutes, but given O'Hair's history down the stretch with tournament hardware on the line, it was progress.
O'Hair rinsed a few at TPC Sawgrass' 17th a few years back to dunk his title hopes and earlier this year at the Arnold Palmer Invitational he found another watery fate at Bay Hill's 16th. On Sunday at Quail Hollow, O'Hair's 4-iron tee shot at the demanding 17th avoided the water and his bogey-bogey finish was good enough to hold off the likes of Tiger Woods, Lucas Glover and Bubba Watson.
It's worth pointing out that O'Hair's misses at the 2007 Players against Phil Mickelson and Woods at Bay Hill have given him a rare trail-under-fire seasoning among the game's American young guns. Seasoning that likely made things a tad easier at Quail Hollow HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. €" Christina Kim is the featured player wearing a microphone for Golf Channel's telecast today of the first round of the McDonald's LPGA Championship. Michelle Wie's in this marquee pairing.
And then there's Shanshan Feng. Who's Shanshan Feng? She's the third wheel threatening to steal the show with the best round of the trio. She's 4-under stepping to the 16th tee, two shots better than Wie and three better than Kim.
Feng is a second-year pro from China who earned her tour membership tying for ninth at LPGA qualifying school at the end of the '07 season. Her best LPGA finish is second place at last year's Bell Micro LPGA Classic.
Reuters' writer Larry Fine walked into the aftermath with marshals buzzing over how the bird appeared to €blow up€ on impact. One of the marshals marched out and grabbed the dead bird by the tail, carrying it off to some nearby wild grass and tossing it. As Ahn approached her ball, there were dead feathers scattered around it, but she was undeterred, lasering her approach to 10 feet.
€Thanks for picking up the carnage€ Reuters' quoted Ahn's caddie, Paul Martinez, telling the marshals.
Ahn didn't convert the birdie putt, perhaps some cosmic justice Redemption thy name is 4-iron. It's not that Sean O'Hair's tee shot at Quail Hollow Club's 17th was the steeliest of shots, and his bogey followed by a three-putt at the last made for a nervous few minutes, but given O'Hair's history down the stretch with tournament hardware on the line, it was progress.
O'Hair rinsed a few at TPC Sawgrass' 17th a few years back to dunk his title hopes and earlier this year at the Arnold Palmer Invitational he found another watery fate at Bay Hill's 16th. On Sunday at Quail Hollow, O'Hair's 4-iron tee shot at the demanding 17th avoided the water and his bogey-bogey finish was good enough to hold off the likes of Tiger Woods, Lucas Glover and Bubba Watson.
It's worth pointing out that O'Hair's misses at the 2007 Players against Phil Mickelson and Woods at Bay Hill have given him a rare trail-under-fire seasoning among the game's American young guns. Seasoning that likely made things a tad easier at Quail Hollow HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. €" Christina Kim is the featured player wearing a microphone for Golf Channel's telecast today of the first round of the McDonald's LPGA Championship. Michelle Wie's in this marquee pairing.
And then there's Shanshan Feng. Who's Shanshan Feng? She's the third wheel threatening to steal the show with the best round of the trio. She's 4-under stepping to the 16th tee, two shots better than Wie and three better than Kim.
Feng is a second-year pro from China who earned her tour membership tying for ninth at LPGA qualifying school at the end of the '07 season. Her best LPGA finish is second place at last year's Bell Micro LPGA Classic.
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