The Women’s British Open – Is Wie the Answer?
You may or may not be aware that there is another golf event starting today. The RICOH Women’s British Open is now in it’s 33rd year, but it’s only the 9th year of it being a Major LPGA event. Before that it was an LPGA tournament for seven years.
Despite this being the 32nd Women’s British Open (there wasn’t one in 1983), women’s golf is desperately in need of a boost. But if this event has a conclusion that is half as good as the men’s Open at Turnberry two weeks ago, women’s golf will be all right.
With the LPGA tour in the US losing seven events since 2007, its commissioner being sacked two weeks ago, and Annika Sorenstam, the greatest female player for a generation, retiring last year, the women’s game is in turmoil.
Step forward Michelle Wie, who is playing her last major championship as a teenager. Wie has for some time been the gifted child of the LPGA tour, but let’s see if she has what it takes to help women’s golf out of the brink.
She may have had trouble in the past when she was allowed to play in the men’s events, but she’s about to turn 20. Older? Wiser? This tournament’s the decider.
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