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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.

Michelle Wie was poised to make history on this past weekend at the John Deere Classic and instead made a Medic call.

Many sports writers thought if there was a tournament for her to make the cut in this was going to be it. The field was good but not the greatest and the course wasn’t unmanageable. Meaning, her slightly shorter game wouldn’t hurt her using higher irons on second shots. However, one thing stood in her way.

That Midwestern Summer Humidity.

Michelle Wie faltered on the first day posting poor scores to begin her run at history. Missing key puts and not finding a rythm hurts even the best golfers. Even Michelle Wie. Then on the second day she was trying to tough out stomach pains and nausea when she had to throw in the towel.

Wie was taken from the course and pumped with IVs.

After that performance many are beginning to doubt and hope that she doesn’t play any more mens tournaments before mastering the womens tour. I’m not sure where I fall on this stance but I do know that those managing her have to realize that her public stock is dropping and she may start losing a lot of fans due to these sideshow antics at PGA tour events.

But then again I can’t take my eyes off them so someone has the right marketing idea.

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