Archive for May, 2007

Michelle Wie is getting ready to graduate from high school this coming week in her home state of Hawaii. Michelle attends Punahou High School in Honolulu, Hawaii.

We wanted to be the first to congratulate Michelle Wie on her graduating and wish her luck in the future. Also we wanted to wish her luck in her PGA endeavors and hope that she reconsiders her decision to attend stanford.

Michelle Wie, Michelle Wie will stop playing against the men came in the last few weeks, and then her family responding that in fact Michelle may still play against the men.

I guess we know who makes the final decisions with regards to her career, which we give no opinion on either way.

The tournament will be played this July 12-15 and is the same tournament that Michelle Wie dropped out of because of heat exhaustion last year and ruffled quite a few feathers in during the process. This has also been called her best chance to make the cut in a men’s tournament.

We’ll wait to see who all shows up as the field hasn’t been set yet.

It seems as though Michelle Wie will play in the Samsung World Championship which will be held October 11 though the 14th in Palm Desert, California at the Bighorn Golf Club.

The women’s event is where Michelle Wie made her pro debut in 2005 and where the previous year she stunned the crowd with a 13th place finish at the young age of 14! Although her pro debut was marred by Wie being disqualified for signing the wrong scorecard she is still fond of the event have this to say.

“It’s an honor to be invited to play in the Samsung World Championship. There is nothing like going back to where my professional career started, and playing against the best players in the world. I’m excited for the opportunity.”

Michelle Wie will have stiff competition with Lorena Ochoa (who won last year) and Morgan Pressel who won this years first major, have already qualified for the event.

Last week we reported on the buzz around the LPGA and PGA tours that Michelle Wie was going to stop playing against the men for a little while and focus on playing and beating the women. We thought it was a great idea, an idea that came from her coach David Leadbetter.

However, the agency that speaks on behalf of the family and Wie herself has said, “It’s fair to say no options have been ruled out.”

We here at Wie Blogging were very happy that she was deciding to focus her efforts on the LPGA and build her game to dominate the women’s tour and then focus on the men’s tour. It just seems like the right thing to do to help her put all the buzz and hoopla that always surrounds her golf game to the side.

We’ll just have to wait and see if she decides she needs to accept those exemptions and keep playing against the men.

This story just broke and we had to bring it to you quickly. David Leadbetter, one of the best coaches out there, and also Michelle Wie’s coach said in a press release today about Michelle that, “She hasn’t got any PGA Tour events planned at the moment. She’s going to commit herself to the LPGA and play a number of events, and next year she’ll probably take up membership.”

Wow!

That’s the first time since this blog about Michelle Wie has been around that someone in her camp has talked about the future plans of Michelle Wie. This coming just before she graduates from high school in Hawaii; and makes her move on to Stanford where she’ll…. study I guess.

Leadbetter also had this to say about Michelle Wie. “She just needs to get her confidence going and just go play. Now is the time to establish herself. My feelings are that if she plays week in and week out on the LPGA, she would win eight or nine times a year. She has the potential to be that good, so why not, if you want to fulfill your potential.”

We hope that now that she is leaving behind the media frenzy that was her playing at PGA tour events that she’ll be able to concentrate on golf and really play up to her potential.

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