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DAILY NOTES - May 16, 2008

- According To Plan:  It’s early yet, but initial reports suggest that an anticipated shootout between Lorena Ochoa and Annika Sorenstam at the Sybase Classic in New Jersey remains right on schedule.  Playing in back-to-back groups off the first tee, Ochoa and Sorenstam shot 68 and 67 respectively on Thursday, with Annika’s bogey-free round proving good enough to tie Song-Hee Kim and Rachel Hetherington for the first-round lead.  Ochoa matched Sorenstam’s five birdies, but also bogeyed the par-4 12th, to join a group of six players in a tie for 2nd.  That’s a lot of bodies lingering around the lead…but hopefully not too many to boil it down to Ochoa vs. Sorenstam on Sunday.
 
- Not According To Plan: Former PGA Tour regular Franklin Langham has been struggling on the Nationwide Tour of late, missing six cuts and withdrawing once in seven 2008 starts.  Mired in a slump that may be bordering on an Ian Baker-Finch-like breakdown, Langham failed to break 80 in six straight Nationwide rounds from late March through early May, lowlighted by a staggering 18-over-par 90 in the opening round of last month’s Athens Regional Foundation Classic.  In this light, it may well have been dangerous for Langham to accept a sponsor exemption into this week’s PGA Tour stop, the AT&T Classic in Atlanta – but then who can blame the former University of Georgia star for jumping at the chance to compete with the big boys for the first time in nearly a year?  Unfortunately, such a step up in class is not always advisable during a crisis of confidence, and the beleaguered Langham wasted little time in collapsing, carding kneecap-breaking 13 on his very first hole, the par-5 10th.  Whether this is some sort of opening hole record remains to be seen, but one has to feel for the struggling Langham, who soldiered gamely on with a round that subsequently included four sevens (a feat managed by Tommy Armour in the 1929 Los Angeles Open – but perhaps not too many times since…)and saw him standing a debilitating 22 over par through 17 holes when, mercifully, darkness intervened.  True, as an ex-Open champion, Ian Baker-Finch’s fall perhaps represented the steeper plunge, but as Langham’s sad story once again reminds us, it really can happen to anybody.
 
- Our Faith Is Rewarded: …By the first-round performance of PowerHouse McIntyre at the Nashua Golf Challenge, where the thrill-a-minute Sunshine Tour rookie stands tied for the lead with Desvonde Botes after carding a solid 68 over the famed Gary Player Country Club course in Sun City.  Of course, the PowerHouse being the PowerHouse, he did it in style, logging an impressive eight birdies in a round strangely (for him) devoid of any eagles, double-bogeys or “others.”  With 36 holes left to play, and contenders like 15-time Sunshine winner Botes, plus recent champions Jean Hugo and Tyrone van Aswegen lingering within three, we will soon find out just what the PowerHouse is made of…

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Perhaps Franklin Langham didn't want to fight traffic since he lives in the same city as the AT&T Classic to return to finish his round or maybe it was just cowardice knowing he had to par the final hole to avoid shooting a 100.

Thank you Mr. Langham for identifying yourself as the Michelle Wie of the Nationwide/PGA Tour.

Please find another line of work. Your behavior was insulting to every "hacker" who's ever had a bad day on the golf course.

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