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The Hot List
Posted: Monday March 06, 2000 06:06 PM
Sports Illustrated's Alan Shipnuck takes a weekly look at who's hot and who's not in the golf world. 1. Karrie Webb. They used to call her the LPGA's version of Tiger Woods. With Webb now 4-for-4 in the new millennium, perhaps Lord Byron is a better comparison. 2. Jim Furyk. Mr. Third-Place Tie mounts a huge rally on the back nine to steal Doral, his second victory in four months. If this guy has finally learned how to win, Hello, world (to steal one of Tiger's old lines). 3. Franklin Langham. The affable youngster out of Augusta blows a seven-shot lead over six holes to lose to Furyk. I don't know what's worse -- throwing up on yourself like that, or having to listen to Johnny Miller tell the nation about it. 4. UCLA beats unanimous No. 1 Stanford in OT in the best college hoops game in recent memory. O.K., maybe only Bruin alums like Corey Pavin, Scott McCarron, Tom Pernice, Jay Delsing, Steve Pate and yours truly care -- but, hey, it was a lot more exciting than watching Golf Talk Live. 5. The release date of The Legend of Bagger Vance is pushed back to November. Forget Bagger; since Charlize Theron has a starring role, we're willing to wait. 6. Shigeki Maruyama. The best smile in golf continues to tear up the PGA Tour with a T4 at Doral. I'd come up with something snappy to say, but I gotta go floss. 7. Buy.com Tour. Did you know first place is now worth $72,000? (Tripp Isenhour sure does, after his victory at the Gulf Coast Classic in Mississippi.) The way it's going, they'll be playing for more dough than the LPGA by next year. 8. Ted Oh. Once presumed to be Tiger's heir apparent (if a teenager can have an heir apparent), Oh has been reduced to playing something called the King Stahlman Tour, in Cali. At least he shot 69-63 over the weekend to win $1,650. Perhaps now he can afford to buy some milk. You know, all those cartons he's pictured on. minus-10a. Senior PGA Tour. Allen Doyle plays 36 holes and then wins the Toshiba Classic in a rainout, to say nothing of $195,000. We know this is a meaningless exhibition tour, but can't they at least pretend otherwise? minus-10b. Annika Sorenstam. It turns out she hasn't retired, but her brand of small ball seems increasingly irrelevant as Webb bashes her way to immortality. Poor Annika hasn't been the same since she got those godforsaken braces put on.
Don't forget to check out Alan's new column, On Tour, posting each Wednesday. Click here to send him a comment.
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