Great champion 5 times using the ‘last resort’ by setting the tactic. But why?

You will not know about Yani Tseng’s fighting if they were not for Haeran Ryu. Ryu shot the day in the day in the first LPGA of the season, the Chevron Championship, and whenever it happens, the cameras return to your way, TV broadcasts the tunes, and all in the group retreats under the magnifying glass, no matter how their Rounds are going.

As a result, we have to see three shots from tseng to Thursday’s transmissionA good bunker shot and two delay strokes … Both ended at least three feet short. But something about those strokes caught our eye.

Tseng is 36 years old and a great 5-year champion. She has experienced the highest levels in this sport of mind and also the lowest landing, as evidenced by her latest battles. Got gets so bad with the flat stick as, like a right hand player, she is rolling on the other side of the ball in the greens. From tee-to-green she plays right. On the placement surface, it is left.

“What about this,” Terry Gannon said in a broadcast of Thursday morning. “This is now tseng, setting manually For Birdie. Yani, the winner of this championship 15 years ago. Morgan, what is it about it all? “

This is Morgan Pressel for which I am throwing, also 36, also a chevron winner, whose days of the game are behind her.

“Yes, I actually sat with him at the champions dinner last night,” Pressel said. “We were talking about it. She was talking about her left hand setting, she just feels as if her hit is the most liquid from that side. There is little stroke like her right right -hander.”

For those who have not followed Tseng’s career here, here is a refreshing:

Immediately after reaching the stage in the late 2000s, Tseng became the largest golf in the world. In a four -year space she won the Rookie of the Year, two players of the year and five degrees. She won three times in the spring of 2012 and then … She has not won since.

It was a slow drop – it was not unexpected. It ended in the first 5 places several times that year. She made 17 from 23 cuts next season and 18 from 24 in 2014. Her good was still good, but she could never call so well. As a balloon, the air slowly flows from its game. In 2016, there was an extension of the lost nine-direct cuts. In 2017 there was an execution of 11 abbreviations lost in 13 rehearsals. She left the first 100 places in the world.

Ironically, setting did not seem to be the matter then.

“I was playing really well during the rounds of practice,” She told Golfweek in 2021“But as soon as it was reached tours like my mind, I was losing control of my mind, my swing, my body. I don’t have so much confidence.”

The pressure of trying to be perfect, to think that this was what the world wanted, took it. Tseng left sport for nearly two full years in 2019, partly due to back damage and then due to Covid Pandemia. She was grinded to return her long game in elite, and according to her coach at the time, she succeeded … with everything except the Plor.

She told Golfweek That she felt her ball hit in the late 2010s was even better than her peak, years of beating in the world, but she felt as if she had to enter her shooting to make any ground in the competition. She received a 10-day meditation trip that forced her to sit still and leave her phone at home. She came out of her determined to play herself and not to be so burdened by the expectations of others. Unfortunately for him, the results did not follow.

Tseng failed to cut the nine events of the LPGA Tour in 2021. It did not compete in the LPGA Tour in 2022 or 2023, and again failed to make any cuts At 11 it begins last season. At the end of 2024, she returned to her native Taiwan and scored a 20th couple in Taiwanese Lpga Tour. And this week, she is making her first 2025 LPGA start.

Which brings it to our attention and the first round of Chevron. Playing alongside the day, and also with Jeno Thitikul, the world’s number 2 player. Tseng went to her business in a mostly strong way, turning to nine back in a long one. After seven more and a rogue, the broadcast caught her standing over another 30 feet, which she left little of the hole, but cleaned for par.

“For a player to do something so drastic, you really have to fight some demons,” Pressel said. It is unclear how long Tseng has been playing with her left hand, but her blow seemed sloppy.

“This is when you tried everything else,” Pressel continued. “When you have exhausted all the other options. Whether it is the long layer, the wing block or a clutch handle, the low left-there are so many different ways to put your right hand, or in your natural hand. Roll to the other side of the golf ball is definitely the last lot.”

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