Michelle Wie Gives Up on Men, Focuses on Women
May 8th, 2007 by dd
In golf tournaments. People, she’s still under-age so let’s show a little decency here.
Teen-age star Michelle Wie will concentrate on playing in LPGA tournaments and give up competing against men for the time being, her coach said.
“She hasn’t got any PGA Tour events planned at the moment,” David Leadbetter said. “She’s going to commit herself to the LPGA and play a number of events. She just needs to get her confidence going and just go play. Now is the time to establish herself.”
At 13 years of age, Wie made her debut against men’s players at the PGA Tour’s 2004 Sony Open in Hawaii. She was within a stroke of making the cut, but has suffered progressively worse outings in subsequent tournaments against men.
She finished close to last place in consecutive tournaments in Switzerland and Pennsylvania, and also struggled at the Sony Open in January.
“The thing I’ve tried to explain to (Wie and her parents) is that you have to work your way up the ladder. It’s all well and good to play a couple of (men’s) events as a novelty, now let’s look at a long-term plan.”
But Leadbetter still has a lot of confidence in Wie.
“She’s the greatest talent I’ve ever seen at 16, boy or girl. If she can keep going in that direction, and keep injury free, we’ll have an exciting time ahead.” [MSNBC]
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May 8th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
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