Michelle Wie seems set for the 2006 US Women’s Open at Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island. The club hosted the first two USGA Championships starting in 1895. A storied course seeing many tour championships. For the women the course plays 6,594 yards and runs a 35-36 par 71 for the women challenging the course.
Being an open the US Women’s Open will see 29 amateurs in the 156 player field. The golfers will be going after the richest purse in the women’s tour of $3.1 million will the winner getting $560,000. Money, Money Money.
Michelle Wie is coming off of a major where she missed the playoff by 2 strokes as well as the Kraft Nabisco Championship where she missed a playoff by 1 stroke. Last year she was tied for the lead going into the last day and then, to make a long story short, she choked the last day shooting a 10 over 82 while Birdie Kim holed a chip shot to win the Open.
Michelle Wie will challenge this year but we suspect she’ll still be a little shaky on the greens where she’s struggled all year long. She played tough to try and qualify for the Men’s US Open, but struggled the second day on the greens. We’ll have more from her practice rounds ass she tries to shrug off the doubters and win her first tournament.
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I hope she does really well
It will be a well deserved win if she gets it. She doesn’t say much in the way of boasting and is under quite a bit of pressure from the rest of the world, media, sponsors, etc.
Michelle Wie has placed herself in some high pressure situations early in the year so I think she is prepared for the US Open.
We’ll see and be sure to keep you posted.