Golfer Supremacy Rankings: Tadd shows Wie that doing is better than dreaming

Walking around the vast Golfer Supremacy Rankings Complex, one can really come to grips with one’s thoughts and aspirations. And while we here at the GSRs have made it clear that all we care about is producing great golf rankings, we realize that others have goals as well.

One thing we’ve learned this week, however: Talking about your dreams is wonderful, especially if you have a trillion-dollar corporation to help you get your message across. Actually doing something about your dreams is quite a bit more difficult.

Which is why, right about now, we are all about young Tadd Fujikawa.

Golfer Supremacy Rankings

1. Tadd Fujikawa

Comments: He has no big endorsement. He has no big-named coach. Hell, at 5-foot-1, he has no big anything, except game and heart. By becoming the only thing worth talking about at the Sony Open, Fujikawa continued to show what a phenom is all about. Last year, he qualified for the U.S. Open, this year, he puts his name on the leaderboard of a PGA event. Basically, he’s everything Michelle Wie wants to be, sans short skirts. Plus, he’s so adorable you just want to stab your eyes out.

2. Paul Goydos

Comments: Before the FedEx Cup, you’d never hear a peep about Paul Goydos. With the FedEx Cup, he’s all we talk about. Just two weeks into the new playoff set-up, or, as critics call it ‘"The Paul Goydos Cup,” Goydos has zoomed up the charts and at this stage must be looked at as a serious contender to win the FedEx Cup and whatever that entails. Yes, Paul Goydos, who last won when Phil Mickelson was a non-threatening C-cup, is now holding all the cards as far as the FedEx Cup. The sound you hear is Tiger Woods trembling. Trembling over the thought of Paul Goydos.

3. Michelle Wie

Comments: At just 17, Wie continues to look back at 13 and think “those were the days,” as she now stands proudly as the No. 3 teen Asian-American golfer mentioned in this blog, behind Kimberly Kim and Fujikawa. Having Nike on her side, however, means Wie will still get about 500 times the press of her competitors, however.

Random Factoid: Argentinian Ariel Canete won the Joburg Open, giving himself a two-year excemption on the European Tour. Canete’s victory is yet more proof that many Argentinians can do much more impressive things than mug the Bush Twins.

–WKW