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Wie Shoots 67-65, Good for 2nd Place, Forgets to Sign Scorecard, Promptly DQ'd

I'm pretty sure we can't blame Bo Wie for this, but that's surely no consolation to his daughter, Michelle. After almost two years of uninspired golf, Wie, now a 19-year-old Stanford student trying to earn her LPGA Tour card, put together two of her best rounds in recent memory. Heading into the weekend, she was in second place at the State Farm Classic. That lasted about two minutes.

For someone trying to avoid Q-School, every tournament takes on added importance, which is why it's generally a bad idea to not sign your scorecard before leaving the scoring area. Especially when only one player stands between you the top of the leaderboard.
"I don't know why or how it happened," said Wie, who had been crying moments earlier. ...

And with that, Wie was gone from a tournament where either the $255,000 winner's purse or the $155,252 second prize would have put her comfortably within the top 80 money winners for the year - and virtually guaranteed her a place on the LPGA Tour next year.
The State Farm only featured two of the top 10 money winners, and the wide-open fairways were well-suited to Wie's long game. And through two rounds, it all seemed to be coming together. But for some inexplicable reason, Wie forgot to sign her scorecard and the 67-65 start were two fabulous efforts now wasted.

I suppose there's an argument that golf's rules are unnecessarily penal, but it's hard to make the case that Wie isn't completely responsible for what happened here. On the upside, Wie is playing well, which is something she hasn't been able to say in some time.

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