Double D Getting Back To Fighting Form

[bangkokbobby]

Dorothy Delasin seems really easy to root for...but she has fallen off the face of the earth, game-wise...16 missed cuts...a dreadful Q-school...it was tough to believe that was even her...other great players, like Se Ri Pak and Grace Park, have had periods where they fought injury and burnout and experienced plummeting results, but not like what Dorothy experienced in 2009...that was painful to watch...

...it seems like sponsorship is a major problem and could have been putting more strain on her than in the past...it takes a lot of money to survive on tour for even one year...sponsorships are a big help...and when you don't have that money coming in and you start missing cuts and have no income...well, maybe the pressure starts to snowball...

link: J-Ro, Delasin hope to get back championship groove - Sports - GMANews.TV - Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs - Latest Philippine News

Double D getting back to fighting form

– Adrian Flores, GMANews.TV

Dorothy Delasin had won more tournaments (four) than her fellow LPGA star Jennifer Rosales but the former was unlucky in her 2009 campaign. She missed the cut a record 16 times and earned a big flat egg in the LPGA Order of Merit.

Thanks to her victory at the Women’s World Cup of Golf in 2008 with Rosales, Delasin, 29, has a Priority List Category 11 for another year. She tried the Qualifying School (Q-School) though she was not able to break in the top 30 after rounds of 90 and 95.

It was very unfortunate for somebody like Delasin, who had a very promising career several years ago.

In 2000, she defeated Pat Hurst on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff to win the Giant Eagle LPGA Classic and become the youngest player (19 years, 11 months, 4 days) to win an LPGA event since Amy Alcott won the 1975 Orange Blossom Classic. She was also named the top rookie that year as well.

The following year, she defended her Giant Eagle LPGA Classic crown and won the Samsung World Championship.

In 2002, she crossed the $1-million mark at 21 years, 7 months and 12 days. In 2003, won her fourth career title at the Mobile LPGA Tournament of Champions, where she defeated Hee-Won Han in a one-hole, sudden-death playoff.

After that, it has been a roller-coaster ride for Delasin, making one wonder what really happened to her game.

Lucho Singh, a Seattle-based Filipino-Indian philanthropist and an Delasin’s ex-sponsor, said that her father, Sonny, continues refusal of getting foreign sponsors for her daughter is one reason.

"A lot of companies have approached the Delasin family but the father always says “thanks but no thanks," Singh said.

"Sonny thought the Filipino-owned companies will assist her daughter with sponsorships. With the global financial crisis prevalent in the Philippines, his patriotism is put to waste," Singh said in an interview with GMANews.TV.

The only way now for Delasin to earn the respect of the international community is to put up impressive numbers on the board and win some in the process. Otherwise, she might have a hard time reaching top-tier status again.

[greentee]

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Dorothy is 29 and her father controls her career .... or did I miss something here?

[Saint-Just X]

Originally Posted by greentee

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Dorothy is 29 and her father controls her career .... or did I miss something here?

That caught my eye,too.

It seems to be a recurring theme in women's golf...

Pax Vobiscum
Saint-Just X