Tadd Fujikawa, the 16-year-old who wowed the golf world with his performance at the Sony Open in Hawaii in January (T-20), turned professional yesterday. He will make his professional debut will be at the PGA Tour's Reno-Tahoe Open, Aug. 2 to 5. The pint sized high school student was the second youngest person every to make the cut in a PGA Tour event. Although he qualified for the 2006 U.S. Open, he failed to advance to this year’s tournament at Oakmont. The golf world was all gaga over his performance at the Sony. Nick Faldo gushed that “you have the game to play out here as of right now.” As the Brits would say, “Rubbish.” Those in the Fujikawa camp insist this is about the young man pursuing his dream and being able to pay for instruction. I wonder if he has been hanging around fellow Hawaiian Michelle Wie too long. My view is that this is a mistake.
Hitting range balls while wondering whatever happened to Ty Tryon.
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- Mr. Fairway’s love affair with the game of golf began in junior high. He once made his living as a journalist covering high school sports, cops and robbers and politics. Today, Mr. Fairway is a public relations consultant and a widely-published freelance golf writer. His current USGA handicap index is 9.3 and he averages 50-plus rounds a year.