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Michelle Wie is on the top of another list that isn’t related to a golf tournament.

Michelle Wie is number 4 on the top 20 richest celebrities under 25. The top 4 on the list are athletes with the obvious first going to Lebron James.

Michelle Wie, who struggled this year in golf tournaments still brought in $19 million. Most of that sponsor money from people banking on her expected golf talent.

The next tournament that she could be involved in the Sony Open, might not even happen for her even though Sony is one of her sponsors. Tadd Fujikawa has already been invited and Michelle Wie will probably be next on the list.

Another year down, another agent leaves Team Wie.

Greg Nared who was hired last year by the William Morris Agency whom manages Wie, said he is resigning his position as VP of Golf and also Michelle Wie’s agent.  So what does this mean for Wie, why did he resign?

We’re not really sure and it doesn’t look like the agency is talking very much about the issue but we did find this quote from and AP article

“While we are sorry that Greg will no longer be handling the road management of Michelle, we wish to thank him for his work and wish him the best going forward,” Jesse Derris, a spokesman for the Wie family, said in a statement. “The core group of agents handling Michelle’s business relationships remains intact, as it has from day one of her professional career.”

I guess we’ll have to wait and see if this means Michelle Wie will get an agent that will focus on building both her game and her pocket book.

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.

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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Michelle Wie just accepted a sponsors exemption to play in the LPGA tour event, The Ginn Tribute, hosted by Annika Sorenstam. Michelle, who recently turned down a sponsors expemtion, will most likely be cleared by doctors to play in next months event.

She has been out of play since the Sony Open where she played poorly and then hurt her wrist the following month.

The tournament, which is scheduled to start on May 28th, will be Michelle Wie’s first LPGA event this year. She’s currently finishing up her final year at Punahou High School in Hawaii before she attends Stanford in the fall.

We just heard that Michelle Wie was offered a Sponsors Exemption for the first LPGA event after the LPGA major just played the last weekend. She then proceeded to turn down the exemption for the Ginn Open to be played in Orlando, Florida.

Michelle Wie recently dropped out of that first tournament and although no one has gotten a definitive word on why she’s missing this golf tournament, we can only speculate that it’s because of that wrist.

We’re unsure when her first tournament will be this year on the LPGA, but we hope it’s soon. Things are getting a little dry around here and the web for the matter. No Michelle Wie news makes us wonder what to write about.

Michelle Wie is just 17 years young and trying to make cuts in the ever increasingly competitive PGA tour. Although making the cut, and even more so finishing consistently in the top ten is high on her list, she’s still looking forward to graduating from high school.

Michelle Wie attends the prestigious Punahou High School on the island of Oahu, part of the Hawaiian Islands. She’s just like every other person at the school except she plays on the PGA tour and makes more money in a year than most of the students at the school will make in a lifetime.

But she’s still excited about graduating. It’s a big step in any teenagers life and now Michelle Wie won’t be just finishing school to jump right into the professional sports world. Even though she turned pro a little over a year ago which means she lost all eligibility to play in college sports, Michelle Wie will still be attending college at Standford University, this fall.

Michelle Wie didn’t play at her best during the recent Sony Open at Waialae Country Club. She was quickly eliminated in the second round, but didn’t really stand a chance after her first round of golf for that weekend.

But that didn’t stop young Michelle from going after what she wants to accomplish. Which is making the cut in a PGA tour, and playing regularly against men, finishing in the top ten. A lofty goal for teenage girl, but a goal she’s determined to see through.

After the tournament Michelle Wie needed a few swing adjustments and looked to her coach for the improvements. Most around the golf world know that her coach is David Leadbetter, the man with all the videos, the famous Leadbetter Swingsetter, etc, etc. David and Michelle worked on some important parts of her game, that although we don’t know for sure, we could imagine the start with putting and then worked on accuracy off the tee.

She’s due up for a tournament soon and we’ll hope to see her out and about playing some of her best golf.