worldgolf.com - 6/26/2008
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Michelle Wie has spent countless hours preparing for the 2008 U.S. Women’s Open with coach David Leadbetter in the hopes of reversing the downward spiral which has been her albatross since last year. Although Wie recently commented that she felt herself “re-emerging as a new player, a new person,” she also reluctantly mentioned what has gone ...
Wie's ba-aaack: Michelle prepares for U.S. Open
sports.yahoo.com 6/23/2008 — The LPGA's U.S. Open kicks off later this week at Interlachen in Edina, Minn., and -- hey, look out -- like it or not, here comes Michelle Wie. After a less-than-rousing finish twelve strokes back at this past weekend's Wegmans LPGA tourney in Rochester, she's off to Minnesota, where she's in the tournament as a qualifier. People scream about Wie receiving favoritism and kid-gloves ...
Michelle Wie: She needs a Dairy Queen
ww3.startribune.com 6/26/2008 — On a whim, we decided to hang out around hole 9 for a while and walk it from tee to green a few times because several intriguing threesomes were moving through: Christie Kerr, Maria Jose Uribe and Lorena Ochoa, followed two groups later by Natalie Gulbis with two other players (Young Kim and Carin Koch, [...]
15-Year-Old Wins Texas Women's Open —
Texas Golf
More and more teen girls are becoming competitive in women's golf, a trend that isn't exactly news. The U.S. Women's Amateur and U.S. Women's Public Links championships have been won primarily by girls and young women in recent years, as opposed to more experienced women golfers; teenagers are even winning on the LPGA Tour these days. So it's no surprise when a teen girl wins the Texas Women's
LPGA to pick up slack for absent Tiger Woods? Not with American slackers —
Tim McDonald
I’ve read in several different places how golf can overcome Tiger Woods’ absence.
One guy said John Daly could do it. Don’t forget Michelle Wie is back. How about Cheyenne Woods, Tiger’s niece?
Some say the LPGA could step it up.
No way. Not with American golfers letting foreign interlopers take over the game RIGHT HERE on American soil.
Look at the makeup ...
What we learned today at Interlachen —
Randball
*Timing is everything: Between filing 10 Internet updates and five blog entries today, we had to pick our spots to be outside actually gathering information. We happened to pick hole 9 and Michelle Wie because it was close and she’s well-known. And we were rewarded.
*The hidden ball trick doesn’t work in golf. OK, that photo [...]
Odds and ends from Interlachen —
Randball
*Michelle Wie described parts of her round as “unlucky.” The lucky part: The pre-made scoreboard here in the media room only has scores ranging from 67 to 79. If you worse than that (Wie and a few others), you don’t make it on the big board (despite the repeated urgings of a certain colleague). At [...]
The discrete photo: shhhhhhhh. —
Randball
We grabbed that image of Michelle Wie as she was setting up to fire the second of her nine shots on No. 9. It’s not quite “inside the ropes,” but we weren’t quite sure we should be doing it (camera phone was on silent, so there was no click), which we offer as an explanation [...]
Try, Tryon Again: Youngest Golfer Tries Comeback —
SPORTSbyBROOKS
In 2001, 17-year-old Ty Tryon appeared to have it all. He had millions in sponsorships and was the youngest player on the PGA Tour. Phenom! Star-in-the-making! Watch out, Tiger! Who’s that stud driving the white Escalade with the North Carolina blue trim?
Only one obstacle could prevent Ty Tryon from success: he, uhm, kinda sucked at golf. Sure, he’s in the top tenth of a ...
Off the Wires: Women's Open Edition —
Waggle Room
Here are some of the stories being written about the U.S. Women's Open. Check Yahoo News or Google News and you can spend all day reading articles about the tournament.
An AP article on Michelle Wie and her "comeback" at age 18 neatly sums up the position the former phenom is in now:
Last week on the LPGA Tour, she closed with a 69 and tied for 24th.
When she was 15, that would ...
When Will Wie Win and Will We Wish Wie Well? —
SPORTSbyBROOKS
Last Friday, Darren Rovell tried to answer the musical question, “When will Michelle Wie win?” He listed her recent mild successes (making cuts, qualifying for the Women’s U.S. Open, not accidentally shooting her eye out, etc.) while pointing out that she still hasn’t won a damned thing except $10m in endorsements. That sounds full of win to us.
However, Mr. ...
Wie stumbles to a 9 on 9th hole at Open —
SI.com - Golf
EDINA, Minn. (AP) -- Michelle Wie tumbled out of contention in the U.S. Women's Open on Thursday by taking a quintuple-bogey 9 on the ninth hole, making the turn in 42 and falling nine shots behind the early leaders.
Wie makes 9 on No. 9 at Open —
FOXSports.com News for Golf
Michelle Wie tumbled out of contention in the U.S. Women's Open on Thursday by taking a quintuple-bogey 9 on the ninth hole, making the turn in 42 and falling nine shots behind the early leaders.
Wie, an 18-year-old from Hawaii who had to qualify for ...
Wie: 'I'm only going to think about now' —
PGATOUR.com News
EDINA, Minn. (AP) -- Michelle Wie has seen her picture in Christmas catalogs for Sony. She has heard the shutter of cameras on the golf course on three continents and felt the stare of thousands of people at an awards banquet in Paris.
