Michelle Wie was hoping to put her 2007 list of poor performances behind her and start with a healed wrist and some refreshed vigor in her game. But the Samsung World Championship doesn’t look like it will be the place that she does that.
Michelle started the day with two pars and a birdie to be 1 under through 3 holes. That quickly turned south as she went through several bogeys and double bogeys. Wie finished the day at 7 over par and in dead last place.
This poor performance in the first round won’t help the fact that her even being in the tournament has a black mark on it. She recieved a special exemption to the Samsung which is a tournament for the top money winners on the tour. She obviously wasn’t one of them, and she ended up bumping Natalie Gulbis from the tournament for the spot.
The good news is that there isn’t a cut in the tournament so she’ll have the whole weekend to prove that she belongs in this elite field. However, she does have a heap of work ahead of her to try and erase this first day.
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