- I want to take nothing away from Lee-Anne Pace, who was able to play beautiful golf throughout all the starting and stopping this week, but it is hard to judge a winner based on an event that got shortened to 54 holes over the course of five days. We don't know how Pace would have handled a final round of 18 holes with someone chasing her. Still, Pace doesn't have to apologize to anyone, and played the best in the conditions that every player had to deal with, and was able to pick up her first LPGA victory. Pace won nine times on the Ladies European Tour, all within the last four years, and at age 33, she is the second oldest winner on Tour this season. After seeing so many players in their teens and twenties playing so well, it is odd to actually see a late bloomer on the LPGA Tour.
- It feels like Michelle Wie hasn't missed a beat. Two weeks in a row, she is part of the conversation coming down the stretch on Sunday, all after taking several weeks off to heal her injured finger. Prior to her injury, Wie looked like she was struggling, so perhaps the time off was exactly what Wie needed to recharge the batteries, so to speak.
- While the rest of the woman's golf world was watching the acting in China, a very compelling event in Korea was taking place, The KB Financial Championship came down to teenage sensation Hyo Joo Kim and Inbee Park. Kim, who has won every virtually every tournament she has entered this year, walked away with the victory, leaving Park in second place. A consolation prize, however, is that Park got to wake up this morning as the new Rolex Number One, overtaking Stacy Lewis while Lewis was on vacation. The two will tee it up this week.
- Another week, another 20-something picking up their first win on the PGA Tour, though Robert Streb's victory was not nearly as surprising a Ben Martin's. Streb, who two years ago barely finished outside the FedEx Cup playoffs, had a solid season last year, and translated that into his first win last week at the McGladrey Classic. Streb won on the college level, on mini tours, on the Web.com Tour, and now on the PGA Tour, so he is no stranger to victories. Streb's first major championship will be the Masters in April, which will take place a two months after his wife gives birth to their first child. Talk about a good year.
- Brendon de Jonge will have to wait a little longer for his first PGA Tour victory. De Jonge has come dangerously close on several occasions, and his great final round would have been enough had it not for the final round 63 that Streb shot. De Jonge had a bit of a rough season last year, so it's good to see him back in contention, but he needs to win soon.
- Will MacKenzie had his chance to complete his comeback and win his third PGA Tour title, but he just wasn't able to get anything going in the final round. I am really rooting for MacKenzie, who is (shockingly) 40 years old to win another tournament, especially considering the ups and downs that he has had to deal with. This week was a good start.
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