The piling on going on right now from the pressroom to the grillroom against Michelle Wie and her mis-handlers has reached Led Zeppelin volume.
Why is it?
I have a theory…she’s 17 and has never won a tournament of note…Nike as well as others pay her millions a year to miss cuts, fane injury, and generally act like what she is…a child.
Why would anyone act like this and why haven’t the people around her stepped into the fray and and pulled her out of the media fire?
You got it…it’s all about the green and we aren’t talking about featherbed bent here.
What if one of those around her…her swing coach, her psychologist, her agent, or her publicist put a stop to this? If her crazy parents didn’t listen, then quit, send a message.
They hold their tongues for the same reason those around Tiger were so summarily dismissed who stepped out of the circle. Sure, Fluff Cowen has a great bag in Jim Furyk, and Butch has Mickelson but Senator they are no Tiger Woods…you don’t anger it.
Last weekend Mark Burris and I played golf together at Bulls Bay. The talk on the range, the grill, and the upstairs bar was all the same…not a dissenter in the group.
“She’s through, we won’t hear anything else from her, there are better young players on the LPGA right now…and better junior girls younger than her”
I hate to be the one to tell you this…but that’s bullshit and anyone who believes it has either never seen her compress a golf ball…or doesn’t know what it looks and sounds like when a golf ball is compressed.
Here’s what I know…there isn’t a female in the game who hits it like she does…there are 150 every week on the boy’s circuit, but repeat…none on the girls.
I don’t know if Michelle Wie will ever make another cut…none of us do. My friends will get a kick out of this and tell me I’m nuts…after all I did make a drunken wager she would win the Masters within 10 years…8 to go by the way.
But let’s not wish or will this incredibly talented teenager to defeat and shame…let’s hope she gives us what she’s capable of…golf as no other woman has played it before now. Let’s give her a chance.
PS Michelle a playoff victory this week at Pine Needles would be much appreciated. RH
She has about as much chance of winning the Masters Tooon-a-mint as Ty Tryon does. Notice any similarities?
You said: “Last weekend Mark Burris and I played golf together at Bulls Bay. The talk on the range, the grill, and the upstairs bar was all the same…not a dissenter in the group.
“‘She’s through, we won’t hear anything else from her, there are better young players on the LPGA right now…and better junior girls younger than her’”
Let the record show:
1. I was never on the range.
2. I said none of these things. What I said was that she’s getting bad (or no) advice from her handlers – including her parents – and her career is spiraling out of control before it ever really gets going.
I believe this year is a bust for her. Tell her to take a year at Stanford, then join the LPGA (which she has not done yet).
Then she can say: “Hello, world.” Indeed.
I think this audio quote tells a lot about the state of her game.
http://www.insidegolf.com/07_womens_open/audio/mwie_062607_mc_01.mp3
man, you are STILL going on about Michele Wie – was the bet $1 to $100 at Troon? I hope we are all still around to collect in 8 years. She is winning nothing, especially against the men.