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Wasting Our Time With Michelle Wie
Why oh why do we waste good printers ink (or in my case bytes) talking about Michelle Wie? She’s an albatross around the neck of ladies golf, an asterisk on the leaderboard of history, a sidenote in the annals ...
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Paula Creamer talks about learning how to win in Junior Golf: An indirect, deserved swipe at Michelle Wie?
Chris Baldwin — ... has to love the fact that Michelle Wie continues to throw up all over herself in any pressure golf situation. Just like about 150 other women out here at the U.S. Women’s Open delight in it. ...

Top 6 Signs June A Bad Month For Michelle Wie
Busted Coverage: Booze, Ladies And Football — ... life. Her golf game has been horrible and competing against men seems like an eternity ago. Top 6 Signs Michelle Wie Has Had A Bad Month: • Lopez brothers joke about relationship with you. • Your hometown newspaper runs column dissecting a 9 on par-4. • You are being compared to Arnold Palmer’s disaster 12 on a par-5 at 1961 L.A. Open. • And you miss the cut at US Open after said disaster. • Media outlet calls Wie ‘albatross around neck of LPGA.’ ...

Why I'm rooting for Michelle Wie
Tim McDonald — Yes, another blog about Michelle Wie playing in yet another men’s event. But here’s the issue: A recent Michelle Wie blog of mine prompted some to ask why Wie is still even getting attention, much less being invited to play in another men’s tournament. Why even bother to blog about her, in other words, when she has so publicly and totally played her way out of earning the right to any publicity, positive or negative? And it’s true that those multitudes of former Wie fans have clammed up tighter than Uncle Harry’s hat ...

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