Wie Watch

I'm not a golf fan, and I'm not a Michelle Wie fan - in fact I think she needs to grow up a great deal and learn some class - but I'll just share any news that comes by...

June 6, 2007
Okay, it's official - I do not like Michelle Wie.
http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/news?slug=reu-lpgawiedc&prov=reuters&type=lgns
Rehashing the fact that Annika Sorrenstam didn't like Wie's practicing 2 days after withdrawing from a golf tournament with a "bad" wrist, and now apparently two of Wie's playing partners at a pro-am tournament have lodged a complaint.

But she doesn't care. "That's insulting." Plus, she's made $20 million in endorsements this year. She's not as bad as Paris Hilton - but she's no class act, by a long shot.

June 5, 2007
http://www.sportsline.com/golf/story/10214140
Who says you can't learn anything reading the sports pages?
In an effort to edify America, here's a geography lesson on how the name of the host city for the LPGA's second major championship, held this week in a Maryland town called Havre de Grace, is properly enunciated.

The scoreboard never lies, as the big WD by Michelle Wie's name shows. (Getty Images)
It's "Have-uh-duh-Grace," which despite its auditory similarity, should not be confused with the pronunciation of the preceding LPGA event, "Have a Disgrace."
Last week at the Ginn Tribute, two giggly teenage girls served as the biggest news pegs for the inaugural tournament, ultimately for all the right and wrong reasons. Mega-star Michelle Wie, 17, was making her first start since reportedly breaking a wrist four months earlier. MacKinzie Kline, a 15-year-old amateur who was born with a debilitating heart defect, played with the assistance of an electric cart and oxygen device so she could walk the course without fainting.
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Basically, the story is that Kline shot over 88 and is disqualified from events for the rest of the year, wheresas Wie withrew just before she would've shot over 88, saying that her wrist was too sore for her to continue. A couple of days later, she was playing again.

NOTE: Much is being made of the fact that she never complained about having a sore wrist prior to pulling out - but if she had complained to playing partners, etc., she would have doubtless been called a whiner...nevertheless I think it's true that she pulled out because she didn't want to miss the rest of the season... seems like a stupid rule to have, anyway.