I know you all are wondering how the week went for me up in beautiful town of Corning NY last week. Yes, I went to Corning to help Celebrate their 30th Year Anniversary and it was an action packed week of social events, and oh yea I played a couple of rounds of golf with the girls too. Not great, but we had a lot of fun as I teed it up with Meg Mallon and Sherri Steinhauer in the first t
wo rounds of the LPGA Corning Classic! Yes, that means I missed the cut with scores of 74 & 76.
No surprises, it rained the first 3 days we were there, but we managed to get in some what of a practice round, as well as a 2nd place finish in the skills test with my partner, a very niche young local golf star. I also recieved a beautiful piece of Steuben Glass as The Queen of Corning Award at a special dinner for most popular player ever, and a quick 4 minute 45 second 6 hole relay against Meg Mallon's team, who happened to beat us by a mere 17 seconds. Poo! Next year, what? I mean, Next time, we will know the ropes and have all the cheating ways down. Yikes! Cheat in golf! Only in the relay. Let me explain.
Abbreviated down to only 6 holes from the original 9, we placed as many girls as par on each hole to relay a ball from the first tee all the way to the final hole. Yes, think about it, as Soo-Yun Kang tees it off the first hole while another player (even squinting I don't recognize her) is waiting in the fairway to receive the ball and send it up to the green. Once there, another player is planted just in case to chip and yet another player to putt, drag, whatever the ball into the hole. Heave Ho to the Tee Box and so on!
The Rules are anything goes except you have to tee it off and putt it in. Drop a ball, foot wedge, throw it, whatever you have to do to get the ball around as fast as possible. Of course, my team wasn't as experienced as Meg's as we played our 6 holes with a fraction more honesty until we finally got the ball back to me, where I gave it a cricket smack from 10 yards off the green. It looks as though I won the tournament in this picture here showing Soo-Yun pulling the flag just in time to see the ball go in. Just a little Corning excitement that looked a little too familiar. Ha Ha! 
Nice to know I can still jump when the mood strikes!
Congratulations go to Leta Lindley and her husband/caddie Matt for their first LPGA Win on tour as Leta beat Joeng Jang in a Sudden Death Playoff to take the titile there at the 2008 Corning Classic. Way to go Leta!
All for now, take care, Relax but Attack!
Rosie (TQC)
