Rawson Heats Up Course
Golfer Anna Rawson arrives at the 2007 ESPY Awards at the Kodak Theatre on July 11, 2007 in Hollywood, California.
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Anna Rawson is one of the rising stars in women's golf. With a top-20 performance at Q-school, the Australian golfer and model qualified for a full-time LPGA Tour card in 2009.
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Model/golfer Anna Rawson arrives at the "Celebrate Like Royalty" party and ANKH fashion show held at Boulevard 3 on February 27, 2008 in Hollywood, California.
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Anna Rawson of Australia plays her third shot on the ninth hole during the ANZ Ladies Masters Pro-Am held on February 23, 2005 at the Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast, Australia.
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Rawson got her break into a modeling career at age 16, when she was a finalist in the Australian "Dolly" Magazine cover contest. Her interest in fashion led her to become the spokeswoman and assistant creative director for the J. Lindeberg women's golf line.
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Model/golfer Anna Rawson attends the Arthur Mendonca 2008 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2008 at Exit Art on February 7, 2008 in New York City.
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Anna Rawson of Australia looks on during the first round of the Kapalua LPGA Classic on October 16, 2008 at the Bay Course in Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii.
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Professional golfer Anna Rawson arrives at the 9th annual American Film Institute Golf Classic at he Trump National Golf Club September 25, 2006 in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
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Professional golfer Anna Rawson steers the golf cart at the 9th annual American Film Institute Golf Classic at he Trump National Golf Club September 25, 2006 in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
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Anna Rawson of Australia smiles as she walks off the 14th green during the first round of the LPGA Corning Classic at Corning Country Club on May 22, 2008 in Corning, NY.
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Anna Rawson, as you might remember, has been in the headlines two times in the past four months, once for successfully meandering her way through LPGA Q-School alongside Michelle Wie to get full status on tour, and again for comments she made about the past image of the LPGA.
To recap what she said during a radio interview in Australia:
"The tour has got so much better with so many young stars and great players," Rawson told the radio station in an interview arranged by her father Jim.
"But the mentality unfortunately amongst the media and the industry hasn't changed. They still think we're at 25 years ago when the tour was full of, you know, a lot of dykes and unattractive females nobody wanted to watch."
While the comments were obviously ridiculous and insensitive, GoDaddy.com is a website that prides itself on controversial marketing, so maybe Rawson and the company will fit perfectly together.
The 27-year-old Australian will be teaming up with Danica Patrick, Candice Michelle of the WWE and poker star Vanessa Rousso to help promote the service, which sells domain names. Not a bad foursome for GoDaddy to bring to the first tee, if you ask me.
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Indy driver Danica Patrick appears at the 2007 ESPY Awards.
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Patrick flashes a smile in pit lane at the Phoenix International Raceway in 2005.
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Patrick gets serious at the Richmond International Speedway in Richmond, Va., in 2005.
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Patrick poses for a portrait at the Homestead Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla., in 2007.
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Danica Patrick makes an appearance at Spike TV's 2003 GQ Men of the Year Awards in New York City.
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Patrick is seen during a photo session prior to the 2007 Indianapolis 500.
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Danica Patrick arrives at the ESPY Awards in 2003.
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Patrick arrives for practice prior to the Detroit Grand Prix in 2008.
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Patrick poses for a portrait at Homestead Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla., in 2008.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
3-25-2009 @ 7:55AM
miamiheat said...
The truth is, she's right, like it or not.
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3-25-2009 @ 8:50AM
jbaer10314 said...
Wait until Ms, Rawson does Playboy. People will scream she destroyed women's sports. It;s the same knee-jerk reaction that keeps women from performing at the Super Bowl Halftime Show,
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3-25-2009 @ 9:03AM
progolfer445 said...
she might be hot lookin, but dumb as a bag of rocks
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3-25-2009 @ 10:02AM
ericschaney said...
Who cares???> Is this suppose to make my IP grow? Or just take a couple of strokes off while using my putter? Ah I mean browser :-)
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3-25-2009 @ 10:53AM
lawglynn said...
Way to go Anna. Tell it like it is baby! Anyone who denies it is a pretentious politically correct tool.
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3-25-2009 @ 10:54AM
homebasedworker4 said...
When is Paula Creamer going to get here 15 seconds of beauty fame. She is better looking than Rawson and better looking than Gulbis and can actually play golf?
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3-25-2009 @ 11:21AM
nmrealestate505 said...
anna is ok.. i dont think shes that hott id give her a 5.5 at the most...
danica needs boobs BAD
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3-25-2009 @ 11:29AM
fuzzyredsocks said...
Um, 27 years old and she's wrinkled like that? Yikes! I mean GREAT BODY and all, but did she play every day under that harsh Aussie sun or what?
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3-25-2009 @ 11:38AM
halfmoon said...
Ms Rawson is telling you younger people the truth. I used to go to the LPGA events to eatch Kathy Whitworth, Laura Baugh and Nancy Lopez, I was amazed at the numbeer of lesbians playing the game.I realized the great looking young golfers would either be scorned or hit upon by otheer tour players...Too many dykes so I stopped going and began to watch some matches on T.V. Thank God for the influx of Asians, Hispanics and Europeans, we can now watch both a good looking golf swing attached to a good looking woman.
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3-25-2009 @ 11:47AM
Jennifer said...
What's up with her Bugs Bunny teeth and all the wrinkles? Plus her eyes look weird, like one of them is glass or something. Baffles me that she holds herself up as one of the new generation of hot, young golfers.
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3-25-2009 @ 11:53AM
Val said...
American Idol had the Bikini Girl. LPGA has Anna Rawson. Not much difference there. Question is....Can she play Golf. Bikini Girl couldn't sing what does that tell ya.
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3-25-2009 @ 11:56AM
Val said...
Halfmoon.... How would you know you were watching Lesbians, unless they personally told you they were. It takes one to know one or so they say.
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3-25-2009 @ 12:21PM
Koz said...
Too bad she Danica has never won a race. A lot of money is spent on a loser.
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3-25-2009 @ 1:23PM
peapers said...
Koz - Danika has won a major race. However, in the spirit of your comments, she is becoming known for her looks and not her racing prowess. For that reason, I'm appalled by the attention given to a female athlete's appearance. These women are not even the top contenders in their respective fields and yet they are getting all this press. Sad. This is why I am not a follower of sports coverage. It's too difficult to find a venue of the media that even gives a damn about the actual playing of the game.
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3-25-2009 @ 2:39PM
randylreynolds said...
It is all about entertainment really anyway. If good looking women merely do a credible job against the bulk of male competition considering that they have been excluded demographically from competition before recently, I'm all for them being easy to look at doing it, if they've risen to doing it on television as a spectator sport celebrity. NOBODY to speak of is an actual participant past elemenatry school age recreational leagues in ANY sport in which some are foolish enough to watch on television. Its ALL about circuses as in "bread and circuses" to keep the masses distracted from what "THEY" are doing in the political economy with our money and to separate us from it in any way that they can. Money represents your life as in "time is money" or the contemporary political economy equivalent of slavery or "indentured servitude" through debt for things of little importance.
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3-25-2009 @ 7:04PM
jeets said...
More Political Correctness runs amok.
"Ridiculous & insensitive," says writer Shane Bacon.
Sorry, but Rawson made a general statement that is not at all ridiculous. Insensitive? Waaaahhh, boo-hoo-hoo. Poor baby. Did she call you a name and hurt your widdy-biddy feelings? Run home to mama. She'll hold you in her arms, sing you a lull-a-by, and rock you back & forth to sleep.
What is really ridiculous is all this P.C. crap.
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