Want to read about Birdie Kim’s miraculous hole-out from the sand on the 18th to win the U.S. Women’s Open? Click here for ESPN’s version. And here for SI’s version. And here for CBS Sportsline’s. When you’re done, you might find yourself thinking that they all sound really similar.

That’s because they are.

That’s right. All the major sports news outlets got their story off the AP wire. The same story. No, they’re not plagiarizers. What they are is shockingly lazy.

Apparently, the second it was certain neither Annika nor Michelle were going to win, the entire press corps decided they couldn’t be bothered. I googled the heck out of the “US Women’s Open” and came up with Doug Ferguson’s original AP story from just about every source. What, did Doug pull the short straw? I get the feeling he's lost a few rounds of credit card roulette to his friends from work.

It’s pretty sad, because Birdie Kim’s story (no, it’s not her real name, and yes, it’s a real groaner) is every bit as press-worthy as Michael Campbell’s. Before today, the 23-year-old had no victories on the tour, and now she’s the champion of the biggest tournament in women’s golf. You really don’t get more Cinderella than that. But she doesn’t have the looks of a Michelle Wie or the stats of an Annika, so her story (the singleton version of it) is running at best as a number 3, no front-page photo, behind a bunch of blah-blah-blah about interleague baseball, the college World Series, and pre-middle Sunday in Wimbledon.

When Duke senior Jenny Chuasiriporn threatened to take the title back in 1998, Nancy Lopez declared that a win by an amateur would be “terrible for women’s golf.”

This time, maybe even old-school, pay-your-dues types like Nancy would have to agree that the opposite is true. Had Michelle Wie, or even Morgan Pressel, taken the honors today, ESPN would've had themselves a front page story. But a no-name like Birdie wins, and the result is... Big. Yawn.

One line from the ubiquitous AP story stands out: “One shot that ranks among the most dramatic finishes in a major changed everything.”

No, actually, that one shot, however high it ranked, was basically meaningless.

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