Tseng is the overwhelming favorite in LPGA major

 for player of the year, one point for winning the Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average. Players also should be on tour for Ten years before they can be inducted.

Webb needed only 5 years to have her 27 points, after a time in her career when she won the career Grand Slam in the duration of eight majors, the fastest of anyone. Webb and Sorenstam were so great Taylormade Rocketballz Irons they'd have qualified under the old system. Ditto for Juli Inkster, whose career was interrupted to improve two daughters.

Meg Mallon was area of the committee that changed the Hall of Fame criteria, and she or he does not have any qualms with players qualifying so quickly.

"We were taking a look at a Hall of Fame where nobody was moving in," Mallon said Tuesday. "We still wanted that it is for players who separated themselves in their generation. Yani has separated herself. She deserves the Hall of Fame. We've had players will end up in at both ages, and we still think it reflects who had been the very best."

So that it is even more peculiar in women's golf is the recent passing from the torch. Sorenstam looked unbeatable until Ochoa came along, ended the Swede's dominance and then was at a league of her own Mizuno MX-1000 irons until she, too, abruptly retired.

Ochoa was choosing her third straight major at the 2008 LPGA Championship, leading through 36 holes, each time a 19-year-old rookie from Taiwan arrived and beat her. That has been Tseng, who continued to win the Nabisco along with the Women's British Open in 2010, and then the LPGA Championship along with the Women's British this past year.

Missing from your LPGA Tour is exactly what Nicklaus once rued in regards to the PGA Tour ?a a half-dozen players who was inside the hunt at majors almost any year.

That group featured Pat Bradley, Amy Alcott, Nancy Lopez, Beth Daniel, Patty Sheehan and Betsy King. In the 1980s alone, they combined to win 15 out of the 40 majors, and collectively they had 54 finishes inside the top 5. Alcott was on your own from that group who did not win player of year in that decade.

"It was hard to have that singular dominance," Mallon said. "They had player-of-the-year seasons. They all desired to beat one another. Is it possible to let's suppose we still had Annika and discount golf clubs Lorena playing, what that might are already like?"

As it is, it seems from time to time like Tseng is playing alone.

Her greatest competition comes from the legacy of Woods. Tseng reached five majors and 15 tour wins years earlier than Woods. And similar to with the other women before her, she'll should do even more to acquire attention.