Ahhh…an agreeable voice.
OK, so The Legend didn’t predict that Michelle Wie would win the Masters in the next 10 years as I did last year.
My excuse is I was in an unfamiliar place, a land foreign to me in every way.
The fact is I was in a very familiar place, the State of Mouthy Drunkenness…didn’t count on Francis Ford Scott being their with his Sony…damn.
I still believe, however, that anyone should be able to play anywhere their skill will take them.
That skill may or may not include downhill two-footers.
That doesn’t mean that dogs should play cat games…but that’s not what we are talking about. Wie isn’t a groundbreaker, that was Annika….this girl is a bulldozer making way for hundreds behind her…you did hear that the recently crowned U.S. Women’s Amateur Champion is 14 years old, just got braces, and says her hobby is “sleeping” didn’t you? Too much.
No, this isn’t dogs playing with cats…this is the same game…and that’s what’s scary.
Unfortunately the entire column is not yet on Golf For Women’s website…what follows is a few paragraphs.
Get yourself a copy and enjoy the words of the undisputed heavy weight champ of golf writing…and not just because I agree with him either.
If You Let Her Play
(excerpted from the September issue of Golf For Women Magazine)
by Dan Jenkins
Those who say the PGA Tour shouldn’t grant exemptions to Michelle Wie aren’t the ones counting the gate. If you’re throwing a golf party, you invite Tim Herron, I’ll invite Michelle Wie. You invite Brett Wetterich, I’ll invite Michelle Wie. You invite Carl Petterrssonn. I could have too many letters in the Swede’s name, maybe not, I’ll invite Michelle Wie.
See, if I am a sponsor on the PGA Tour, I’m inclined to want to sell tickets to my tournament.
I know. Stupid me. Its old-fashioned. Its obsolete. As a sponsor, the tour says, its okay if I sell tickets, but my main job is to help 200 guys I’ve never heard of make a lot of money.
The fact is, Phil and Tiger are the only golfers who sell tickets these days. The spectacle sells the rest. The tournament comes to town, and its a social event, a happening, a picnic, a kegger, a few days loafing around on the rich guys lawn.
Which leads me to Michelle Wie. If I’m a sponsor, I know she’s going to bring in about 25,000 fans a day to my tournament.
‘Nuff said.
