Tag: scoring
With a new scoring system, boxing ready for an Olympic fight (The Associated Press)
Posted: August 8, 2016 at 5:23 am / Sports
After Roy Jones Jr. was infamously robbed of a gold medal by horrific judging in the 1988 Seoul Olympics, amateur boxing began a 25-year search for a better way to determine a winner. Rio de Janeiro is hosting the first Olympic tournament since the sport abandoned its derided punch-counting system three years ago and went […]
Kim matches Sorenstam’s LPGA Tour scoring record at 27 under (The Associated Press)
Posted: March 21, 2016 at 5:42 am / Sports
Sei Young Kim turned an anticipated Sunday shootout into a record-tying blowout. The 23-year-old South Korean player matched Annika Sorenstam’s LPGA Tour scoring record of 27 under, closing with a 10-under 62 at Desert Ridge for a five-stroke victory in the JTBC Founders Cup. ”I didn’t think about that,” Kim said about Sorenstam’s record. Yahoo […]