huskerketel:
Eric, Iowa State Unuiversity for the past 5 years has loaded their women's golf team with players from Thai and they are all good. Being an old Big 12 guy but now in the Big ten with my team Nebraska, I do not agree with that style of recruiting, just to build a team that this last year was rated 22 for NCAA schools.
That means 5 or 6 USA girls don't get a chance for a scholarship. It really wouldn't surprise me to see Thia win. Iowa State has also recruited one girl from Spain.
I too watched some of this tournament and found it really good. Hope they continue it.
Huskerketel
Thanks for the info, that explains why Thailand has such strong players.
As I do not live in the Us since billions of years ago, I have not much idea of how girls are given scholarships or whatever to become professional golf players, if they ever reach that level.
One thing I notice when watching Ladies golf tournaments in the Us lately, so many Asian female players doing fantastic, especially those from Korea, there are everywhere and growing and taking the best rankings.
Is there are key to their success?, is it because their mentality is different from any American female player? is it because of the amount of Asian people living now in the Us?, just wonder why.
Hope I am not offending anyone or underestimating the American female players, it is just clear that something is different than it was, lets say, 10 years ago.
However, love watching the female golf events, just very different from the boy ones.
Eric