Michelle Wie, my Aunt Ethel. She certainly wasn't missed yesterday as the LPGA Tour Championship turned into a tense shot-for-shot battle between Ochoa and Shin for player of the year honors, settled only on the last stroke of the last hole. The play even elicited a 'wow!' from the hardened commentating team twice, once when Ochoa saved bogey with a beautiful putt on the seventeenth, and again when Shin's stroke headed straight for the eighteenth flagstick before finally veering off and giving Ochoa the prize for the fourth straight year. Barely. The final tally in points was 160 to 159. Shin is a rookie, too, which as Dottie Pepper pointed out means she's seeing a lot of the courses for the first time, and that has to give the rest of the tour pause. Oh yeah, and Anna Nordqvist won the tournament. Poor Anna, this was probably the least attention paid to an event winner all year. It was also not a great year to be the second-most-successful rookie on tour. Even winning a major wasn't enough. Nordqvist's performance was also notable for her attire, a skirt that may one day be enshrined in the Smithsonian under the heading 'what?'

To wit:

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