{"id":1875,"date":"2008-05-05T22:14:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T02:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2008-05-05T22:14:25","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T02:14:25","slug":"tigers-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=1875","title":{"rendered":"Tiger&#8217;s challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">Why there are so many world class\u00a0Korean golfers around, given the size of their entire population, which only estimated at little less than 50 millions?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=1837\">Hard driving<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0ball-sy?\u00a0 One of friends loved to tell this story: he\u00a0went out alone to play the\u00a0Bethpage Black where it hosted US Open in 2002 (will host\u00a0it again in 2009), got paired up with a sole Korean woman who apologized in broken English, upon meeting him, &#8220;sorry I&#8217;m not very good.&#8221;\u00a0 The 6 footer Irish replied &#8211; half jokingly, &#8220;I&#8217;m not good either&#8221; took\u00a0the little woman&#8217;s declaration at face value.\u00a0 Few holes into the difficult course, he was\u00a0out played\u00a0at every single turn.\u00a0 At third hole, she became impatient and turned to him, &#8220;you&#8217;re right, you&#8217;re not very good .. .. not at all.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">We shall not discuss the color of his face, nor the psychological devastation he suffered ever since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">Ever\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode;\">heard of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/golfworld\/2007\/08\/gw070803kidswagger?currentPage=1\">Anthony Kim<\/a>?\u00a0 Not yet?\u00a0 Well, soon you will.\u00a0 He has the swing as well as the mental toughness <em>and<\/em> has won.\u00a0 Going out to a public\u00a0golf course here, the chances are you&#8217;ll run into Koreans, and they aren&#8217;t\u00a0very well liked.\u00a0 But on tours,\u00a0you&#8217;ll see plenty of them, especially the LPGA.\u00a0 Obviously they love the game and know it.\u00a0 How many women would go out there playing by herself?\u00a0 Kim&#8217;s father often reduced him to tears, would throw out his 2nd place finish or over-par first place troph.\u00a0 Many over bearing fathers ruin their kids&#8217; career, but Kim&#8217;s dad seemed didn&#8217;t &#8211; built up his mental toughness?\u00a0 Oh well,\u00a0good for him. .. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode;\">Maybe we should call him Jaguar &#8211; he&#8217;s only 5,10&#8243; and 160 lb.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why there are so many world class\u00a0Korean golfers around, given the size of their entire population, which only estimated at little less than 50 millions?\u00a0 Hard driving\u00a0and\u00a0ball-sy?\u00a0 One of friends loved to tell this story: he\u00a0went out alone to play the\u00a0Bethpage Black where it hosted US Open in 2002 (will host\u00a0it again in 2009), got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}