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Kim set to defend CME Group Tour Championship title in season finale Wednesday, 16 December 2020
South Korea s Kim Sei-young is set to defend her title at the season finale CME Group Tour Championship this weekend at Tiburón Golf Club in Florida in the United States, as some top newcomers are set to miss the event.
Kim held off England s Charley Hull by a single shot to be crowned the 2019 champion.
Her compatriot A Lim Kim won the US Open as a rookie last week, but opted not to join the field this week, with competition starting tomorrow and running until Monday.
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At 23, Brooke Henderson is already a veteran of the U.S. Women’s Open. This week, she’s playing her eighth championship. But the previous seven have been nothing like this.
From the December date to the driving range that has a chain-link fence 60 yards off the tee, everything is a bit off-kilter at this year’s event being played at Houston’s Champions Golf Club.
“It’s definitely very different,” said Henderson. “I feel the biggest one is trying to learn the two courses, and understanding them the best we can going into [Thursday] and Friday.”
It’s rare that any tournament uses two courses, let alone a major, but due to the limited daylight hours, that was the only option for the United States Golf Association. It’s meant a cram session for players and caddies as they try to grasp the nuances of the Jackrabbit and Cyprus Creek courses. The golfers will play one round on each course before moving to Cyprus Creek for the final two over the weekend.
Can’t they plant a few trees deeper in the park in an out of the way location to compensate for the loss of the trees and help maintain the power grid and improve the course at the same time? A perfect balance.
I’m going to try my best to contain my comments to the facts and not be impolite. My original thoughts would never make it past moderators.
It would be informative if the writer above can spend the next month counting the trees on Oak Hills and revert back to us we can put this issue in context.