We here at the Golfer Supremacy Rankings have come to the conclusion that 2008 Presidential hopeful Tom Tancredo must despise professional golf these days.
Tancredo, hoping to be elected on the “Hispanics, Hey, Let’s Round Them Up and Kill Them” platform, has been seeing his worst nightmares become reality recently. First, Mexicana Lorena Ochoa has become a dominant force in the LPGA, taking home 2006 Player of the Year honors. And now, the PGA is actually going out of its way to host tournaments in Mexico.
Tancredo, who represents Colorado in the House of Representatives, also is likely not overly thrilled that the PGA spends as much time as it does in Miami, as it will starting March 22 at the WGC-CA Championship.
“Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you’re in the United States of America. You would certainly say you’re in a Third World country,” said Tancredo recently, clutching a Confederate flag and while trying to find proof that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were, in fact, Mexican.
Regardless of Tancredo’s views, we here at the GSR’s only care about one thing - golf excellence. And when we can’t find that, we look for other things. This week, however, golf excellence had a true international flavor.
1) Henrik Stenson
Comments: Stenson continues his march up the World Golf Rankings and is now considered one of the planet’s Top-5 players after becoming the first Swede to win a World Golf Championship event as he topped Geoff Ogilvy for the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship title. It’s one of many recent successes for Stenson, who aside from holing the winning putt in Europe’s 2006 Ryder Cup victory, has brought home the crown at the Dubai Desert Classic, and has married a fabulously hot fellow Swede.
2) Fred Funk

Comments: Things were a tad funky in Mexico over the weekend, as Funk showed that he still has plenty of game for both the PGA and Championship tours. Funk needed a playoff to hold off Jose Coceres and win the Mayakoba Classic in Mayakoba, Quintana Roo, Mexico. It was the eighth Tour victory for Funk, who may take some ribbing for his lack of distance of the tee, but when he finds a course that works for his game, is a big threat, even at 50. Also at the event, Esteban Toledo was the highest Mexcian finisher, as he ended up tied for 41st, which likely burns Tancredo to no end.
3) Jim Rutledge
Comment: After being featured in the GSR’s, Rutledge made his first PGA cut of the year at the Mayakoba Classic, as the Canadian finished tied for 31st, and earned slightly more than $21,000. Rutledge is now sitting at 195th on the Money list, and appears primed to make a serious run at winning the FedEx Cup, which, despite Tancredo’s objections, allows non-Americans to win.
4) Stacy Prammanasudh
Comments: Prammanasudh earned her second LPGA victory by winning the Fields Open. Despite the foreign-sounding name, Prammanasudh is an All-American babe who earned All-American honors at Tulsa. Nonetheless, Tancredo has formerly requested she change her last name to Smith.
Random factoid: Tancredo, who got interested in politics when he portrayed communist dictator Fidel Castro in a school play, has yet to decide whether he will finish up his time in Congress, or work full time on his presidential bid, where he currently sits at about 2 percent, trailing Condolezza Rice, who isn’t even running.
–WKW