So this is what all the Michelle Wie hype was about.
The 19-year-old "next big thing gone dormant" absolutely destroyed the LPGA International Champions Course Thursday, the easier of the two, shooting a 7-under 65 that has her tied for the lead after two days at 10-under.
Wie was in a t-6 after her first round 3-under 69 yesterday. The 90-hole event cuts to 70 players and ties after 72 holes are complete, and the top 20 finishers after the fifth day get full exemption onto the LPGA Tour for 2009.
Basically, this is the breakthrough we have been waiting for from Wie. She has always had the talent but never seemed, over the past two years, to make it all come together at once. Too many times we saw Wie make a triple-bogey here or a costly three-putt there. This week, it appears, Wie is just going out with that "I'm the best golfer in this field and I know it" mentality that guys like Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus have, and had, respectively.
If you think she is just trying to qualify, you may be wrong. The big knock on Wie was that while she was talented and could finish high in LPGA events, she didn't know how to win. Do you think being at the top of this field by the end of the week might change some of those critics?
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Good luck Michelle! I hope you earn your card the old fashioned way by earning it!
WELL, IT IS ABOUT TIME THAT SHE SHOWED SOME MATURITY..... I AM GLAD FOR HER.... I HOPE SHE SPITS OUT THE SILVER SPOON SHE WAS BORN WITH AND WITH GOOD OLD FASHIONED "SWEAT EQUITY" EARNS HER CARD.... THEN MAYBE SHE WILL HAVE DEVELOPED AN APPRECIATION FOR THE PRIVELIGES THAT COMES WITH IT
When will she be posing for Playboy?
Can you say Anna Kournikova
One Q School does not a career make. Wie has made many amateurish mistakes: taking an illegal drop and was DQed; signing an incorrect scorecard and again DQed, withdrawing from Anika's Tournament for an "injury", then practicing the next day. She left Coach David Lebetter, she fired her professional caddy and let her father loop fpr her unsucessfully. Taking sponsor's exemptions into tournaments she has not qualified for also has not endeared her to fellow players. Maybe she will grow up finally but her fellow pros do not much care for her because she has made more money in endorsements without winning a tournament than they have.
It is a good first step in Q School but she must show more.
She has three more rounds left there.
Think of Michelle Wie in another way.
'Tall 19 year old Korean American girl comes out of nowhere to lead the Q school. HIts it like the guys, long and high. The LPGA needs a talented young girl like this! She's only 19!'
Lets not malign her, lets try to support her. She's still just a kid.
golf needs Wie especially since Tiger is absent but she is a "kid" with $10 million bucks from Nike and a golfer without a victory since 2003 who refuses to speak to the media.
Her childhood ended long ago when her parents took the dough.
Just who in the hell is Michelle Wie, anyway?
Looks like she has Laura Dern syndrome...cute as a button as a teen, but pretty much average-looking as an adult.
She may very well turn out to be a great golfer, but, like Sorenstam, she'll never transcend her sport.
Maybe Wie has come back down to earth. The brat was spoiled for the last few years, having to crawl her way back to playing is a good thing. All she now has to do is get her parents out of the way and let the pros handle her.
Really a top golfer but she must be let off the parental leash to develop and produce wins......the umbilical cord has to be broken....good luck....
Michelle will never make it on tour. She makes too many mental mistakes.
Michelle, Get that LPGA Card and work, work, work. I will say you need to keep your father behind the ropes. Its NOT about him... Good Luck.......
I wish they would have showed the LPGA womens on tv instead of the mens it would be nice to watch Michele get her card
LETS SEE HOW MANY WINS 0
Enough of this media creation. Good player - of course. Savior of women's golf - hardly.
The real story from Q-School, and a compelling story overall, is Stacy Lewis. Wins by 3 strokes with Wie 6 back tied for 7th place after going backwards on Sunday.
Here's to an LPGA Hall of Fame career. All the best to a now healthy Michelle Wie. You go girl.