She played like a champion. For decades, people have been wanting to sit the LPGA golfers down and do a makeover. A little lip gloss, pluck the eyebrows, trim the hips. The tour needs sex appeal, they said, and the tour has turned up candidates like Laura Baugh and Jan Stephenson from time to time. The latest is Grace Park.
Golf is another story.
Park had only to let her belly button show on her swing follow through and win a few tournaments to attract a high-powered Hollywood agency. Well, Sunday afternoon at the U.S. Women's Open, it ain't about belly buttons. Park didn't make a birdie and shot 78, finishing a mile or two behind Webb. It's about dry mouths and sweaty armpits. It doesn't matter a whole lot how you look if you're standing with one foot in a bunker and the other out, trying to hack your ball out and keep it on a green that is shaped like half a cantaloupe.