Bo Bae Song

Bo Bae Song is a young Korean golfer who has played mostly on the Japanese LPGA the past couple years. But she can play on the American LPGA in 2010 if she wants to, after winning the Mizuno Classic on Sunday. That victory get Song her tour card for next year.

Joh, Mills Top Futures Tour Q-School

Congratulations to Tiffany Joh (left), your 2009 Duramed Futures Tour Q-School champion. And to runner-up Danielle Mills (below) - Joh and Mills finished five and four strokes clear of the field, respectively.

Only the top 20 to 30 finishers received exempt status on the Futures Tour for 2010; as many as 275 players will get status of some level, but the exact numbers (and each player's status level) aren't determined until after LPGA Q-School finals next month.

The Top 20 should feel pretty good, however, and Joh and Mills are obviously exempt. Joh is playing in those LPGA Q-School finals next month, however, and if things go well there will be moving up to the big tour.

The effervescent Joh is destined for stardom - or at least minor celebrity - even if she never wins a tournament as a professional (but we'd put good money on her winning). Just check out her blog to get a sense of her ... um ... interesting take on life. Click on Tiffany's label at the bottom of this post (below the timestamp) to read more about her on Golf Babes.


The Quebecois Mills turned pro earlier this year and got into three Futures Tour tournaments, finishing 18th in one of them. She played collegiately at Elon University, where she won one tournament. She also won the 2007 Quebec Women's Match Play Provincial Championship.

Check out the 2009 Futures Tour Q-School scores to see some more of the golfers we'll be seeing more of in 2010.

Cover Model Cristie Kerr

Cristie Kerr graces the cover of VIVmag's November/December issue in the shot above; down below is one of the images of Cristie that runs inside the issue.

This issue of VIVmag is the "Giving Back" issue, which makes Kerr a perfect subject: Her Birdies for Breast Cancer has been raising awareness - and money - for years.

"Golf is an obvious love of mine, but I have a number of other passions in my life – including fashion - which I know is shared among VIVmag women," Kerr says. "I am honored to be on the cover of VIVmag's annual 'Giving Back' issue because advocating for breast cancer awareness is a cause very close to my heart – an important message that will resonate with their readers who also are committed to wellness and awareness."

To read the VIVmag article about (and view more photos of) Kerr, visit vivmag.com/cristiekerr.

More Cristie Kerr pics on Golf Babes

Paula Creamer Gets the Spirit

Isn't Paula Creamer a little young to be captaining a United States team in an international team golf competition? No! No she's not! I can say that unequivocally because, in fact, this week Paula is captaining such a team - the American squad in the The Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship.

The Spirit is played annually at Whispering Pines Golf Club in Trinity, Texas. This year 20 countries are represented, each sending two amateur men and two amateur women. Individual winners are crowned, but so are Team Champions (combined scores of a team's men and women) along with Women's Team and Men's Team champions.

Creamer was 17 when she played in the 2003 Spirit; she's 23 now as the captain. On her American team are Alexis Thompson, Jennifer Johnson, Jordan Spieth and Ben Martin.

Among the players who've caught The Spirit in the past are Lorena Ochoa, Minea Blomqvist, Na Yeon Choi, Paige Mackenzie, Jane Park, Hee Young Park and Yani Tseng. And lots of guys who are now notable pros, too. Pretty impressive for a tournament that has only been around since 2001.

By the way, the photo above of Creamer is from one of her past calendars for Golf Digest Japan. See more Paula Creamer pics here to view others.

Ana Ivanovic

Ana Ivanovic is a tennis player, and a darn good one - she was ranked No. 1 in the world before various injuries helped knock her from that perch. But she's on Golf Babes today because her boyfriend is Adam Scott.

Adam's golf game may be suffering these days, but his taste in women certainly isn't ...

Ivanovic is a golfer, too, and has appeared on GB before after doing a golf-themed photo shoot.

Jenteal Jackson

Check out the Golfweek blog of Lance Ringler, the guru of college golf, and you'll find a nice post about Jenteal Jackson of Brigham Young University.

Jackson, Ringler reports, is a five-time Utah Junior State Amateur champion who played her first collegiate tournament this week. What's the big deal about that? She had to get permission from the BYU basketball coach to make the golf trip.

Because Jackson was also the 2008 Utah high school basketball player of the year, and is a major player for the BYU women's hoops team.

2010 World Ladies Calendar

Yesterday we told you about the 2010 Paula Creamer calendar published in Japan; today it's the Golf Digest Japan 2010 World Ladies Golf Calendar. Every year GDJ selects three or four golfers to feature in its calendar. This year, three golfers are pictured in the calendar. Those three are:

Danielle Bowers


Danielle Bowers - you may know her better by her maiden name, Danielle Montgomery - is an Australian golfer who plays on the ALPG Tour. She took part in a better-known calendar a year ago, when she recreated Jan Stephenson's famous bathtub photo for the Australian Women of Professional Golf calendar.

More Danielle Bowers pics

Lauren Espinosa


Lauren Espinosa played collegiately at the University of Arizona, turned pro in 2006, and has played in about 15 Duramed Futures Tour tournaments since then.

Lindsay Senger


Lindsey Senger played collegiately at the University of Colorado and is now on the staff at Colorado National Golf Club.

If you can read Japanese, you can learn more about the 2010 World Ladies Golf Calendar here.

2010 Paula Creamer Calendar

Paula Creamer is playing in Japan this week, so it makes sense that Golf Digest Japan would choose this week to release the 2010 Paula Creamer calendar. Paula has done a calendar for GDJ every year since at least 2007. Alas, the calendars are available only in Japan - but if you keep an eye on eBay, you might find one that way.







As you can see, there's nothing the least bit risque about the calendar photos. So why Creamer doesn't release a calendar in the U.S. or elsewhere is an open question. A possible answer: She's getting lots of money from GDJ (and if so, more power to her!) and has an exclusive deal.

More Paula Creamer pics

Marianne Skarpnord

Win No. 2 on the Ladies European Tour this year for Marianne Skarpnord came today at the Ladies Italian Open (the trophy shot above is from an earlier win). Not only did Marianne beat Laura Davies in a playoff to earn that victory, but she got into the playoff by sinking a 35-foot eagle putt on the final hole of regulation. That's winning in style.

Marianne will be playing in the LPGA Q-School finals next month, attempting to join Suzann Pettersen as the second Norwegian on the LPGA.

Carling Coffing

It's not easy being a Reds fan these days. Trust me - I know. But Carling Coffing is not easily daunted, whether in her choice of baseball teams or in the pursuit of the LPGA Tour. Carling will be playing for her LPGA card at the Q-School finals in December.

She got into Q-School finals through the Florida sectional. The pressure of qualifying tournaments can create some big scores in final rounds. But Carling went the other direction at the sectional - she opened with a 79, but kept grinding and posted her best score of the tournament in the last round to advance to the finals.

Coffing is an Ohio native who played collegiately at Ohio State after winning the Ohio state high school championship. She turned pro in 2008 and got into 10 events on the Duramed Futures Tour. In 2009, she played 17 Futures tournaments, improving her scoring average and money list position and making 13 cuts.

Carling also put the communications degree she earned at Ohio State to use in 2009, shooting video features for the Futures Tour website, and doing a vlog for the Golf Channel website. Some of those clips are on YouTube and we've posted one below.

Brittany Lincicome

Brittany Lincicome upon her arrival at the Women Sports Foundation's "Annual Salute to Women in Sports" dinner. The LPGA has a short article about it, plus you can see more pics on the LPGA's Facebook page.

More Brittany Lincicome pics