Inbee Park in the Shadows as She Chases History at 2013 Women’s British Open

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Published: August 1, 2013

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Inbee Park is knocking on history’s door at the historic Old Course at St. Andrews. The problem is she’s doing it with the sound of Scottish crickets all around her.

With shockingly little fanfare from outside the women’s game, Park is on a quest to win an unprecedented fourth consecutive major at the 2013 Ricoh Women’s British Open and opened with a three-under 69 on Thursday. As a result, she sits just two shots off the lead and only 54 holes from golf immortality.

No golfer—man or woman—has won four consecutive majors in a calendar year during the modern era, yet that’s exactly what Park is endeavoring to do this weekend. Despite being on the cusp of such an enormous feat, Park remains at best a secondary golf storyline and completely off the radar in regard to mainstream sports coverage.



By winning the first three majors of the year, she’s already put herself into the stratosphere of the legendary Babe Zaharias, Mickey Wright and Pat Bradley. You wouldn't know it, however, by the relative silence surrounding her.

With the British Open underway, her quest is being overshadowed in her own sport by Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods playing the Bridgestone Invitational a week prior to the PGA Championship. Outside of golf, PEDs in baseball and just about any topic that includes the National Football League is trumping Park by a mile.



The lack of coverage isn't lost on fellow players, commentators and leaders of the women’s game who have marveled both at what the talented 25-year-old is poised to accomplish and how little play it seems to be getting.

"For what Inbee is doing right now, she's not getting the credit that she deserves," former World No. 1 Stacy Lewis told reporters. "If somebody was doing this on the men's tour, it would be being talked over and over and over again for a month before the major, no...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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