posted Feb 22, 2008

She opened with 3 under, tied for 16th yesterday. Got to be a confidence builder.

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posted Feb 22, 2008

MIchelle is a classic case of being badly advised and exploited, yes by everyone including both her parents. I've watched her since she was 15 and whilst she is a talent the hype around her would have been difficult for anyone to handle let alone a teenager. Anyone whose witnessed the media scrum around her at the end of a round will know what i mean! Compare her with Morgan Pressel, who in 2005 was playing in the Junior Solheim Cup and has progressed quietly along to be in the full US team at last years Solheim, winning a major on the way.

So the real question is why, Nike supposedly gave her a multi million dollar contract on turning pro, they obviously felt she was the next Tiger, being from Hawiai marked her as different and therefore even more marketable. Agents obviously got to her and her family, shes the only female player who wont sign photographs...incase anyone tries to make a buck out of her that they can't get their cut on? Whoever advised her to play on the mens tour was insane, even Annika struggled on the odd occasion that she tried it. Watching her play at the LPGA in Bulle Rock last year was awful with a physio walking round with her massaging her wrists after virtually every drive

So what are we left with? a kid (still only 19!)trying to get through college (allegedly with the parents still on campus)with the spotlight on her every round she plays, still trying to win something. Will she make it? I really do hope so because despite it all she's a nice kid to talk to!

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posted Feb 22, 2008

That crazy years trying to play in the men's circuit was peurile and bovine. I am surprised her father who was always at her side did not tell her to stop that stupidity.
She is finding an excuse for her apalling behaviour (over the wrist remember?) and form last year. Leave her in the back pages or out of any page, until she gets her back to her senses. Why are you still writing about her like a star when she does not even have a game -see her 2007 record and she's never won a single tournament male or female.

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posted Feb 22, 2008

AYBABTU - how do you pedal an excuse? How many gears does it have?

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posted May 27, 2008

you said it all, need i say more?

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posted May 27, 2008

ive always thought that 99% of women golfers will never be able to hit it as far or as hard as the men,even with the advantage of modern lightweight equipment because even strong athletic women are realativly weak in the forearm muscles compared to men.
This especilly impacts on short irons/punch shots. Ive personally seen a middle aged low handicapper ruined by injury beacause her pro made her practice 60yd punched sand irons, a great practice for athletic male players but lethal for most women.

The Driver being the lightest headed club would take along time to damage Micelle Wie but due to the leverage and power the rest of her body generates to release her wrists she has relatively no forearm muscle to support them leading to injury.

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posted May 27, 2008

She's a joke.

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posted May 28, 2008

This is a classic case of shattered confidence rather than shattered bones.

It is incredibly harsh to describe her as a joke when all she has done is follow the advice of those who know the game insideout. (Leadbitter and Nike step forward.) She is not guitly of hyping herself up - blame the media, sponsors, her advisors and the LPGA if you must.

Wie, half fit and semi motivated is still a match for any female golfer and she will prove herself to be so in good time (which she certainly has on her side).

We live in a 'must-have-it-all-now' culture, where the great and good are habitually written off after lapses in form or health. So called 'Lovers of Sport' seem to have very short selective memories.

I find Michele an extremely agreeable girl, completely undeserving of this unfair ridicule. Give her a chance.

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posted May 28, 2008

I saw her playing at the 2006 Vichy open along with Sorenstam, Webb, Ochoa, Pettersen and Davies etc. If I remember she placed quite well. Wasnt that a "european full field event".. what is the point of that comment anyway?

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posted May 28, 2008

Err I mean Evian of course, not Vichy.

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