Woman-American Selected For Golf Digest Challenge; In Hindsight, The Boys Never Had A Chance

Men, voting online for a reality show contest? Please!

Margaret Ference had it in the bag from the start. Bob Carney reports on the big--monumental really--announcement.

Reader Tom Ieurbino has looked into Ference's chances and notes that she has a great shot at breaking 100 at Pebble Beach:

And the odds are probably against her, but check her out on ghin.com under her full name, Margaret Ference. You can see by the course ratings that she's been playing back tee rounds; 79.9 would be a scratch women's rating for the back tees of that particular course (I assume her home course). Under recent scores, I noticed she posted an 87 over the weekend from the back tees. She probably has no worse a chance than the amateur men selected in '08 and '09, especially since Pebble Beach is significantly shorter than Torrey Pines and Bethpage Black. She plays out of Cherry Valley CC in Skillman, NJ, not far from Princeton. It's a Rees Jones course built in the 1980s.

Anyone who can play a Rees course on a regular business is certainly tough enough to handle the pressure of playing in the Golf Digest Challenge. You go Margaret!