The LPGA Corning Classic certainly received a memorable farewell.

Just when Yani Tseng seemed headed for a playoff Sunday with fellow South Korean Soo-Yun Kang, Tseng watched in amazement as Kang missed a 3-foot par putt on the final hole.

No that isn’t Yani celebrating her victory but her showing off her other athletic ability at a birthday party for Morgan Pressel.

As a reporter for AP Kevin Rivoli  spent the best part of a week covering a sporting event, then wrote an article about one of the sport’s top players but couldn’t get her home country correct. This type of mistake isn’t unprecedented. Actually it is happening quite frequently.  For instance

One reporter had at last year’s Evian Masters had Candie Kung down as South Korean also.  In fact, Kung – while born in Taiwan – is a naturalized US citizen.

The Tampa Tribune’s Mick Elliot said Angela Park was South Korean. This coming at a tournament where Park talked about her recently becoming a naturalized US citizen. She was born in Brazil and has only been to South Korea on vacation or to take part in golf tournaments. Another reporter repeated this mistake about Angela Park but I can’t find the link.

Apparently if you’re an Asian player on the LPGA Tour, the press automatically pegs you as South Korean. Either that or the reporters are plain dumb or lazy about getting facts straight in their reporting. None of which says much for the quality of the media covering the sport.

Rivoli doesn’t hold the record for quickest golf reporting blunder in the last twelve months. Last July  David Mercer of AP reported Ji Young Oh as birdieing the first hole of sudden death at last year’s State Farm Classic to beat Yani Tseng.  Oh actually made par.  It took Mercer only 13 words to show how dumb he is.