What’s Her Name, with the overbearing parents, phalanx of P.R.apologists, and vocal army of I-know-nothing-about-golf-I’m-just-on-a-golf-gender-bender supporters came in 10th in a rural LPGA tournament and, of course, got more press than the winner, (Jiyai Shin, if you hadn’t heard, which you likely didn’t). Yet still we get What’s Her...
ESPN got an excellent interview with her...primarily because they decided to show us what was really happening in her mind. WHen they stay in the background and let the athletes talk instead of themselves, they get excellent work.
Here Wie go again. Catfight in 3…2…1…This time it’s the voice of the Great American Sportsman (Hominus Sporticus Americanum), Steve Czaban, versus the venerable double first place GWAA award-winning Alan Shipnuck of SI.com… When it comes to the LPGA, I like what Dan Jenkins wrote about it… The LPGA will soon have: (a) A...
Cybergolf’s Dave Andrews is reporting live from the LPGA Q School, so tune in to all his in-depth coverage. With a final round 74, Michelle Wie finished in a tie for seventh place in the LPGA Q School, earning her tour card for 2009. Stacy Lewis shot a 69 (aggregate 342), and won the event by three shots over Amy Yang. The top twenty finishers earned their...
So Tony Korologos nails Michelle Wie (the player formerly known as the female Tiger Woods).
Nicely done Tony. See you when I get back from Michigan.
Her 73 yesterday was enough to “energize” her supporters into all their old self-delusions. People were claiming she was “competitive” on the PGA Tour, and that she was ready to “make history.” But after she finished today with a trunk-slammer round of 80, the key stats were these. She averaged 24.5 putts per round and she...
Calling Michelle Wie’s behavior at her Reno/Tahoe presser petulant, deluded, and ungrateful – something that many people notice at a lot of her pressers – Czaban fired off this epic rant. From the article: “Her performance at the pre-pre-tournament presser for the Reno-Tahoe Open was at best laughable. She claims to not recall saying earlier...
Julie Zimmerman made me spit up coffee all over my desk. “How the hell do you not remember to sign your scorecard? Did mommy and daddy forget to tell her?” It’s such a hard thing to do! Especially when your in the scoring area to do just that. How many pro tournaments has she played in? Did they teach her that at Stanford? Maybe she is the...
Joe Logan has the courage to say about Michelle Wie what everyone else is thinking except ESPN, Wie apologists and chumps. Here’s a few nuggets: “”It’s not every day that a woman is given the opportunity to play on the greatest tour in the world,” Wie said in a statement. “This is another step in the process of making me a better...
Here’s Doug Ferguson on Michelle’s announcement that she’ll be in Reno/Tahoe next week on the PGA Tour. Is this a good idea after failing to sign her scorecard last Friday? What kind of professional forgets to sign your card after firing a 65? You never see Natalie Gulbis or Paula Creamer or Morgan Pressel do anything like this at all. When mommy...
Sergio Garcia fired a 66 to take a two-shot lead at the Players. Click here for Live at the 17th and the leaderboard.
Despite lunatics who think her head is where it should be for an 18 year old girl, Michelle Wie shot a four-over 75 to tie for 127th place in the Michelob Ultra Open.
Proving that she still makes headlines for doing nothing at all, Michelle Wie withdrew from the Safeway Open, citing a “re-tweaked” wrist. Tweak, tweak, tweak…maybe it’s time for some surgery. After all, how is she going to be the first woman in the Masters and Ryder Cup team if she can’t even hit balls out of the rough on the Stanford...
Two golf news items from CBS Sports today: first, this disturbing revelation that Michelle Wie’s parents actually thought they could tell Stanford University what’s what on Michelle’s college dorm life; second, the Arjun Atwal speedracing case is NOT closed, but is still being processed by Florida officials. Remember, Michelle’s parents...
Here’s my favorite: “The lectures … are amazing,” she said. “I write pages and pages of notes. I never really experienced that before. It’s a lot of fun. When you’re in high school, you are usually the outstanding student. But when you go into Stanford, you’re like, ‘Am I the mistake exception?’ You have to...
Have Wie reached the end of the story? I don’t think so. I think sometime down the road wie’ll have the redemption. I think someday Michelle will win on the LPGA tour, make lifelong friends and make a contribution to golf. But there is alot of ground to cover until then and it will take time and effort. They say in my world that it takes six months for...