Global Golf Post - July 26, 2010

GEAR MEN’S PRO
WOMEN’S PRO AMATEUR JUNIOR GATEWAY

Wondrous Weekend

Carl Pettersson

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What Oosthuizen Dug From Dirt ( 8)

Langer Conquers Carnoustie ( 12)

International Incidence

If you had any last doubts about how
inarguably global golf has become, check
out this post:
On the game’s biggest stages Sunday,
a German (Bernhard Langer) won in Scot-
land, a South Korean (Jiyai Shin) triumphed
in France and a self-described “Swedish
Redneck” (Carl Pettersson) captured first
place in Canada. One day earlier, a girl and
a boy with Asian surnames (Doris Chen
and Jim Liu) finished first in America’s
two biggest junior championships.

Striking a blow for home-cooking – Stockholm, after all, is famous for its meatballs and Mike Weir looked fried while trying to grab the Canadian bacon near Toronto – another Swede (Richard Johnson) won in Sweden. Sweet.

Dean Wilson stacked up 18 birdies in the first 54 holes and led by four Saturday night in Canada. But he wilted (38 on the back nine) instead of tilted Sunday. And Pettersson, born in Sweden and schooled in North Carolina, picked up the pieces.

Shin, meanwhile, looks to have recaptured the women’s world No. 1 spot from a Japanese player (Ai Miyazato), who one week earlier had wrested it from an American (Cristie Kerr), who had muscled it last month from Miyazato, who had taken it, also in June, from Shin.

By the way, there will be a quiz on all of this. In five languages. Extra credit if you can name the Finn who won the Scottish Boys or the Swedish girl who came in first at the European Young Masters.