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The Hot List
Posted: Monday March 27, 2000 04:28 PM
Sports Illustrated's Alan Shipnuck takes a weekly look at who's hot and who's not in the golf world. HOT 1. Karrie Webb. This is getting ridiculous. 2. Hal Sutton. Forget all those twentysomething pansies. All it takes to tame a Tiger is a square-jawed, graying, Iron Byron with a drawl thicker than U.S. Open rough. History may remember the 2000 Players as Sutton's last stand. 3. Aree Wongluekiet. The 13-year-old amateur -- and half of a precocious set of twins -- played in the final group on Sunday at the Dinah Shore, finishing a jaw-dropping joint 10th. What's gonna be her first endorsement deal, Hello Kitty? 4. Gil Morgan. What's up, Doc? It's nearly April and Morgan finally gets his first W. 5. The Stadium Course, TPC at Sawgrass. Last year the greens were brown, the rough thicker and more tangled than Ian Baker-Finch's hairdo, and the players bitched as if their courtesy cars had been taken away. This year the course was wild and wooly but never unfair. Is it too soon to declare the Deane Dome a modern classic? NOT 1. Colin Montgomerie. Just when we were starting to warm up to Monty he sticks his FootJoy in his mouth, saying that after Tiger's first-round 69 at Bay Hill everyone was playing for second place. With that kind of attitude, it's no wonder he's never won over here. 2. The Karrie tour. If someone doesn't step up soon the LPGA may as well the cancel the summer schedule. 3. Naree Wongluekiet. Seems like a great kid, but after missing the cut at the Nabisco she could be destined to play the Roger Clinton to Aree's Clinton. Or is that Tito Jackson to Aree's Michael? 4. Jacksonville, Fla., a.k.a. the town that time forgot. The only place besides VH-1's Behind the Music where '80s heavy-metal hair still thrives. 5. Tiger Woods. For the second time in four weeks he's beaten down by a big-boned ballstriker. TW will still win the Masters, but at least now everyone else has been given a flicker of hope.
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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