After a forgettable 2007 season, Michelle Wie put her professional golf career on hold and headed off to Stanford to focus on being a teenager. She's avoided much of the controversy that followed her last year -- mostly because of her reduced schedule -- and if she can build on her sixth-place finish at last week's Ladies German Open, we can all get on with our lives. Hopefully that includes Dottie Pepper. Pepper, a former LPGA player turned television analyst, has been quite vocal about Wie. Almost a year ago, she blamed Wie's parents for mismanaging Michelle's career. A few months later, she did it again, just in case anybody missed it.
The LPGA Championship is this week, and for the first time in three years, Wie will not be in the field. Last year she made the cut but finished 35 shots behind winner Suzann Pettersen, which upon reflection, prompted Pepper to get up on her soap box (at Baltimore Sun reporter Don Markus' insistence, no doubt):
