Archive for the 'Talk Michelle Wie' Category

Michelle Wie is one of the most talked about athletes in golf today, men and women. Some of the comments are good and some of the comments bad but no matter what way you slice it, there’s a lot of comments on Michelle Wie.

With that we’re going to open a new section called “Talk Michelle Wie” where we’ll scrub the web for quotes from other golfers, sports commentators, athletes, and anyone else who wants to comment on Michelle Wie.

Since there has been recent talk about Michelle Wie’s decision to turn pro and compete on the both the LPGA and PGA tour we thought it would be good to dig up some old quotes about Michelle Wie and her decision from some other golfers. Namely, the golfer now commentator, Dottie Pepper.

We found these from a USA Today article. Dottie Pepper said,

“Wie should hold on to her childhood and resist the urge to turn professional so soon.”

“I think if it was my kid, I would say, no way, be a kid a little longer. You can’t put a price on childhood and you can’t turn back the clock.”

That was back in 2005, do you think Dottie Pepper was right?

We found more notable quotables from just before Michelle Wie decided to go pro from the USA Today article. But unlike last time these are more in favor of Michelle Wie’s decision to turn pro.

They’re from television analyst Johnny Miller who said these interesting tid-bits about Michelle Wie.

“She’s a one-in-a-hundred-million golfer, so her path can’t be judged by other people’s paths. She’s in a position I don’t think anyone has been in, including Tiger or Nicklaus. She’s just better at that age than anybody’s ever been before.”

“There’s a certain sense out there that it would be good if she struck while the iron was hot in terms of what her commercial appeal is and the value of the contract she could sign.”

And contract she did sign, with Nike, and now numerous other sponsorship deals that have landed Michelle Wie more than $20 million in one year!