NEWS—LAST SHOT Surely the women’s Open highlights the schedule for members of the Women’s Golf Alliance’s 20 state and regional associations. The USGA accepted a a record 1,873 entries this year. They include 11 former champions, and all eyes will be on Michelle Wie as she defends her first major. At press time, she was finally beginning to feel up to the task, having battled illness and injury all season before being diagnosed last month with bursitis, an inflammation in her hip. A cortisone shot helped, and Wie thinks her new diet including anti-inflammatory foods such as sweet potato and turmeric accelerated the healing. “I was lucky that it wasn’t any structural damage, so I’ll bounce back very quickly,” Wie said. U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball champions Mika Liu, 16, and Rinka Mitsunago, 18, pose with the new trophy. She’d better come prepared to putt, (Copyright USGA/Steve Gibbons) says Park,who played a couple of rounds at Lancaster last month and reported “slopes, big slopes, bigger slopes than having little ridges.” It’s teen time everywhere “Obviously they’re all going to be good Florida teenagers Athena Yang, 17, and What’s in her bag? when you hit it well,” said the world No. 3. Stacy Lewis has revealed that she’s “But when you don’t hit it well, you still want Kendall Griffin, 16, won the stroke play medals at the USGA’s first U.S. Women’s already played five drivers on the LPGA it to go a pretty good distance. That’s what Amateur Four-Ball Championship at the Tour this year. The fallen: TaylorMade’s R15, I’m looking for.” two different Mizuno models, and one Her latest love, as of the end of May, was a Bandon Dunes Golf Resort’s beautiful Pacific Dunes course. TaylorMade AeroBurner model. less lofted AeroBurner. But stay tuned. MORE
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