Think you’re feeling holiday stress? Try being Morgan Pressel or Brittany Lang this week. Or one of the other 140 players who’ll battle it out over the next five days in the final 90 holes of LPGA Q-school in Daytona Beach, Florida. Only the top 24 players will get a card. Make that final cut and you fulfill your dream of playing professional golf. Miss it and it’s “thanks for trying, see ya next year.” Twenty-four out of 142—no pressure or anything. Pressel won the US Women’s Amateur this year, and tied for second at the US Women’s Open. Lang tied for ... full post »

There were some things I knew I’d miss during my trip to Korea: my two sons, my husband, ice, and email. Golf wasn’t on my list. Not because I wouldn’t miss it, but because I knew I’d get my golf fix here one way or another. They say Japan is golf-crazy—well Japan’s got nothing on Korea. On landing in Seoul, we spotted no fewer than three courses from the plane. (In a city more crowded than New York, by the way.) Our hotel in Kwangju had its own driving range. If there’s land to spare, something golf-related is going up. At ... full post »

LPGA pro Laura Diaz is trying something new this weekend–she’s playing in the Tournament of Champions in an attempt to qualify for the season-ending ADT Tour Championship. There’s nothing remarkable about that fact, except for one thing: she’s seven months pregnant. You may remember the Solheim Cup Maternity Matchup earlier this year, when Diaz and Denmark’s Iben Tinning went head-to-head, or belly to belly as the case may be, in the singles matches. Diaz cleaned Tinning’s clock, 6 and 5. Of course, plenty of LPGA ladies have played when pregnant. Brenda Corrie Kuehn comes to mind—she played in the 2001 Women’s Open ... full post »