A year in review.........2010

The LPGA 2010 season was delightful in many ways. From the changing of hands of the World's No.1 Title, to seeing new faces on the 18th green claiming trophies. The Title of World's No.1 started the season in the hands of Lorena Ochoa, who suddenly announced her retirement in May. The title then exchanged hands several times through the remainder of the season, with stops in the hands of Jiyai Shin, Cristie Kerr, and Ai Miyazato. Yani Tseng ended up with that title at the final event of the season, The LPGA Tour Championship.

Cristie Kerr became the first American to hold that title since the inception of such in 2006. Cristie Kerr has shown the world that she is worthy of the title she held at two separate times this year. I predict she will hold this again in 2011. Crisitie also held the largest landslide victory of the season with her 12 stroke win over Song-Hee Kim at the LPGA Championship presented by Wegman's. She's often spoke of the book by Joseph Parent, "Zen Golf". Cristie shows that Zen-like focus in every round she plays.

Also close but never close enough was Suzann Pettersen. I have given her the name of "The Susan Lucci of Golf". And while I don't mean that in a critical way; it merely captures the many times she was poised to win a tournament and let it slip away. She became a 2nd place finisher. Jiyai Shin held the spot for several weeks until withdrawing from the LPGA StateFarm Classic due to an emergency appendectomy. She may be small in stature however, she is always smiling and always looking to better her game in a big way. And she showed that, when she came back and re-took the title back from Ai Miyazato.

Paula Creamer made things happen, when she earned her only win this season at the Women's US Open. After suffering a thumb injury and going through the lengthy rehab, she had missed more rounds than she would have liked. Perserverance paid off.

Inspirational move of the season goes to In-Kyung Kim, who donated her entire $220,000 winner's check from the Lorena Ochoa Invitational to charity. She stated half to go to the Lorena Ochoa Foundation and the other half to a charity that was yet to be named. Lorena, who was In-Kyung's idol couldn't have been more proud.

Michelle Wie, won her 2nd career victory at the CN Canadian Women's Open with a 3 stroke win over Jiyai Shin. While only 20 y.o. at the time of her win, she has developed into a mature, well poised golfer whom I predict is just in the start of her many many wins to come! Tackling college at Stanford while playing in as many tournaments as possible, is not an easy task and I commend Michelle for how she's handled such. She is truly a remarkable athlete and I believe she's only scratched the surface of her golf career.

Now, Go Hit Some Balls..........