The funny part, and this is what my dad always says about foul tips in baseball (Why don't they just swing 1 inch higher?) is that Wie must have run 12 long putts past the hole within 3 inches of the cup, left or right. Almost all of them stopped close enough for an easy tap in.

My solution: just have her aim 3 inches left of where she thinks she should on every putt. She'd miss half of them by 6 inches instead of 3, but she'd make half of them too, for a net gain of 3 or 4 shots per round.

 

well, I think more men are hitting putts mostly because Tiger was doing it. he knew early in his career that to make him a champion, he had to hit his putts, then spent an entire off-season working on it. And everyone works on whatever Tiger is working on.

I think the technology in golf clubs and in health has equalized the game for the genders.

There was a column about Michelle Wie saying that she's the Sasha Cohen of golf in that she's bascially sabatoging herself and can't quite finish a championship whether or not it'a women's or a men's tournament.

Every champion knows how to finish and every champion knows how to pick up the fine details (like putting) that makes them that much better than everyone else.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=2479801
I'm telling you, none of them could make putts. At least not this weekend. From the article about the tournament winner:

"Webb missed birdie putts of 4 feet and 10 feet on the final two holes and closed with a 4-under 68. Pak could have won in regulation, but she three-putted for bogey on the 18th hole and shot 69.

...Wie made three birdies in a five-hole stretch to get within one shot, but a 4-foot par putt swirled 270 degrees around the cup on the 16th, she grazed the lip with a 10-foot birdie on the 17th and she [3 putted 18] settled for a tie for fifth, two shots behind."