Thursday:
Another gorgeous, hot, clear day. When I got to the course, one of the first things I wanted to do was solidify my two remaining interviews. I did find Minny Yeo on the course, but I couldn't get at her, so I went and bugged Paul, who asked her if she could do the interview. She agreed to do it at noon, but told him she did not have much time. I was a bit worried that she would be in a bad mood, but that worry was allayed when noon arrived.

While I waited, I watched the players practice putting. An older gentleman motioned for Hee-Won Han, who had just arrived, to come over and sign something. He handed her a copy of the ESPN The Magazine that had Michelle Wie on the cover, and said, 'Michelle, could you sign this for me?' Hee-Won looked a bit sick, and replied, 'I'm not Michelle' with a thin smile. She walked off, and the guy had egg on his face. Poor Hee-Won! I bet she and the other Sisters have to deal with that kind of thing a lot. It's especially unfortunate, considering all the great things Hee-Won has accomplished, that she is less known than a promising but still unformed 13 year old.

My interview with Minny went really well. She is a RIOT! She cracked me up from the second she sat down. The interview ended up going twice as long as she originally intended, because she kept telling me she wanted to talk some more. We ended up wandering around the grounds a little, and eventually we got to her golf bag, where I took some pictures of her with it. You'll be reading my exclusive interview with Minny in just a few short weeks.

Hee-Won during her pro-am on Thursday
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Peanut styling during her pro-am on Thursday
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Interestingly, Minny had never been to SeoulSisters.com, the first of the Korean players I've talked to who hadn't. It's especially strange since her husband has been here, and even corrected some of the bio info on Minny's page (Minny really made fun of me for getting her Korean name wrong; I used to call her Min-Ho instead of Min-Son, and she demanded to know who 'Min-Ho' was. For the life of me, I don't know, Minny!). She did know of the site, however, from her hubby.

After Minny, I went to watch Mi Hyun Kim play some of her pro-am round, and got a few nice photos. Like Se Ri, she was very helpful to her pro-am partners in terms of lining up putts, etc. She did not have to do a lot of putting, either, although towards the back nine, she did start putting earlier than some of her partners on some holes, to speed things up (the pace of the pro-ams was positively glacial at times).

By this time it was nearly one PM, and I still had not seen Se Ri. I did see Grace, however. She was wearing an all black ensemble. I caught up with her on the driving range. She was next to Soo Yun Kang, who *also* was wearing all black. I had visions of a cat fight (you know how women can be if they both show up at a party wearing the same thing), and my camera was all ready to catch it, but alas, they were simply friendly as usual. Though they were not interacting a lot with each other, you could tell that they like each other, and that this was a more relaxed time of the event for both of them. I talked briefly with Grace, asking her if it weren't a bit too hot to play in all-black today. She replied that she did not intend to be out there too long. I did not have a chance to ask her about the interview, though, so I returned to the media center to enlist Paul. He suggested that I arrange the interview through Grace's agent, Tim McNulty, who was sitting in the shade outside the media center, looking a trifle bored. He told me to just grab her when she came off the range and she'd do it.

Grace and Soo-Yun Kang back in black
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