Michelle Wie 24/7

[Game Face]

hey! now that she's Wie-drawn from the tournament, she can make it home in time
for her graduation ceremony... exactly where she should have been in the first place.

[rodney_c]

Originally Posted by Texas Wedge

All antagonistic ribbing aside...that's a bummer. She has shown that she can compete with the women (when healthy). So what happened? Did she re-aggravate the wrist injury playing out of the rough or something? Which wrist did she hurt/re-injure?

I thought she wasn't going to be playing again until the doctors were sure she was 100% healthy and healed. What happened? Were they saying she was 100% or was she 80-90% and she figured that was close enough? Just curious.

I don't know the answer to any of those questions. I just heard that she hurt it and and she had an ice bag on it right after the round when she went off the course. I don't know which wrist either.

[rodney_c]

Originally Posted by Game Face

hey! now that she's Wie-drawn from the tournament, she can make it home in time
for her graduation ceremony... exactly where she should have been in the first place.

She won't go back for graduation. Graduation is no big deal anyway.

[Game Face]

Originally Posted by rodney_c

She won't go back for graduation. Graduation is no big deal anyway.

Then you look back 25-30 years from now and realize that it was a big deal.


"Where are all my friends from high school?"

[Game Face]

Originally Posted by rodney_c

I don't know the answer to any of those questions. I just heard that she hurt it and and she had an ice bag on it right after the round when she went off the course. I don't know which wrist either.

I learned recently if an non-tour player cards an 88 or over they are banned from LPGA competition for a year.
If that's the case, maybe that wrist "injury" was an excuse for bowing out.
Is that true?


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[tour_insider]

The LPGA does indeed have an 88 rule for non-members.

If she had signed for an 88 or higher - and she was 16 over at the time of her withdrawal - she would have been disqualified.

That is a rule she apparently did know.

Her wrists were just fine. She was cleared by her doctors to play and had been at the site for over a week gearing up for the event.

[chopdonkey]

Wiesy was well on her way to posting a hurting 88 - 89 and wanted to be eligible to play some more with the ladies this year and if she had actually posted that hurting number she would not be allowed to play anymore this year since she is not an LPGA member.

Can Wie become any more of a joke?

Maybe if she had wore THE HAT like she did during her practice round the other day she would have been fine, but as it stands she is finished.

At either rate, Rodney will be in mometarily to let you know why the princess failed again and to reassure all you believers that she is going to be money at the Deere.

Did anyone see the picture of her riding back to the clubhouse on the cart? Classic!!

[Texas Wedge]

Originally Posted by Game Face

I learned recently if an non-tour player cards an 88 or over they are banned from LPGA competition for a year.
If that's the case, maybe that wrist "injury" was an excuse for bowing out.
Is that true?


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This was from an article talking about someone else...

"Asked this week about the rule on non-tour members shooting 88 in the first round being asked to withdraw or disqualified..."

So there is a rule, but it may not make the player ineligible for a year...just asked to WD from the tourney or be DQ'd.

If this really was a fake wrist injury, she'll be back for the next LPGA major. If it was a real injury, I think we won't be seeing her nearly as soon. I certainly HOPE she wasn't faking it, but I guess we'll see.

[chopdonkey]

Originally Posted by rodney_c

No, I defer to Tim's expertise. If Wie had stayed playing Juniors for longer, she would have learned that when she posted the clubhouse lead at some tournaments, that she should have used her mind controling powers to make the leaders on the course mess up. That's what Morgan learned to do and she used that at the Kraft and that's how she learned to win.
Did he even watch the Kraft Nabisco????


By the way, most people on the forum will probably know, but Wie's next lpga event will be playing the Ginn Tribute to her friend Annika, starting May 31st. Big money event, the top players, should be a great event.

Yes Rodney this was a GREAT EVENT!!!

[Game Face]

Thank you!

[Texas Wedge]

Originally Posted by chopdonkey

Wiesy was well on her way to posting a hurting 88 - 89 and wanted to be eligible to play some more with the ladies this year and if she had actually posted that hurting number she would not be allowed to play anymore this year since she is not an LPGA member.

Can Wie become any more of a joke?

Maybe if she had wore THE HAT like she did during her practice round the other day she would have been fine, but as it stands she is finished.

At either rate, Rodney will be in mometarily to let you know why the princess failed again and to reassure all you believers that she is going to be money at the Deere.

Did anyone see the picture of her riding back to the clubhouse on the cart? Classic!!

Like I said earlier...

I see a pink slip in Leadbetter's future...

[Leaguegolf]

Wie can say all she wants about not caring about shooting an 88 and losing her LPGA playing privileges for the rest of the year but I'm not buying it after reading this account of her round........

The Golf Channel - LPGA Tour Article

Players that are hurt generally WD immediately, or within a hole or two of "tweaking" an old injury. I'm real curious as to what the conversation was with her manager......just prior to her WD. I'm not saying that she isn't still hurting. I just think the timing of her WD and her likelyhood of shooting 88+ (and being banned from LPGA events the rest of the year) are more than circumstantial. I haven't seen a scorecard but counting the strokes listed in the article, I have her at at least +7 on the first nine holes and that's well before she mentioned any injury.

[Texas Wedge]

Originally Posted by Leaguegolf

Wie can say all she wants about not caring about shooting an 88 and losing her LPGA playing privileges for the rest of the year but I'm not buying it after reading this account of her round........

The Golf Channel - LPGA Tour Article

Players that are hurt generally WD immediately, or within a hole or two of "tweaking" an old injury. I'm real curious as to what the conversation was with her manager......just prior to her WD. I'm not saying that she isn't still hurting. I just think the timing of her WD and her likelyhood of shooting 88+ (and being banned from LPGA events the rest of the year) are more than circumstantial. I haven't seen a scorecard but counting the strokes listed in the article, I have her at at least +7 on the first nine holes and that's well before she mentioned any injury.

After reading that article, I gotta say...I think she took the WD to keep from losing her ability to play the rest of the year. I wouldn't be surprised if she showed up at the major next week. However, after the way she played today, it's obvioius her game isn't anywhere near ready and she'll probably have to WD next week without finishing the first round again.

[tour_insider]

She basically quit, guys.

You can sugarcoat it if you want, but she pretty much quit to save herself the embarrassment of an LPGA Tour ban for the rest of '07.

[Leaguegolf]

She practiced all week and we haven't heard anything about her wrists possibly preventing her from playing. She played her first nine holes with no mention of her wrists. She gets within two holes of being banned from the LPGA for the year and her manager has an on course conversation with her, after which, she immediately WD's. Thereby avoiding the 88+ ban. Is that fish I smell?

I'm sure rodney_c will be along shortly to explain everything.

[tour_insider]

Originally Posted by Leaguegolf

She practiced all week and we haven't heard anything about her wrists possibly preventing her from playing. She played her first nine holes with no mention of her wrists. She get's within two holes of being banned from the LPGA for the year and her manager has an on course conversation with her, after which, she immediately WD's. Thereby avoiding the 88+ ban. Is that fish I smell?

Ah, that would be an affirmatory, captain.

From people I've talked to, she's basically an outcast on the LPGA Tour as it is. This certainly won't help. They sure didn't do a very good job of hiding the real reason for her "withdrawal".

To me it's even worse because she's essentially lying, not to mention insulting our intelligence.

[stlcard_25]

Originally Posted by Leaguegolf

She practiced all week and we haven't heard anything about her wrists possibly preventing her from playing. She played her first nine holes with no mention of her wrists. She gets within two holes of being banned from the LPGA for the year and her manager has an on course conversation with her, after which, she immediately WD's. Thereby avoiding the 88+ ban. Is that fish I smell?

Can you really blame her though? I'm not making excuses for her but I certainly wouldn't want to finish out a cruddy round with the reward of getting myself banned for the rest of the season.

[tour_insider]

Originally Posted by stlcard_25

Can you really blame her though? I'm not making excuses for her but I certainly wouldn't want to finish out a cruddy round with the reward of getting myself banned for the rest of the season.

I actually can blame her in this situation. I mean, what is she learning at this point? "When the going gets tough, quit"?

Not only is it an insult to the sponsors, the host, your fellow players and the game itself, but it's instilling a loser's attitude. She was 14 over at the time she was carted off the field, still two inside the 88 (par 72) with two to play (and it's perfectly obvious she knew the rule and the situation).

It's the perfect opportunity to find out what you're made of on a day you're obviously not playing well. Do you try and gut it out and fight and scratch and claw to stay under that number, or do you take your manager's advice and just plain quit?

I can guess what Earl Woods would have told a 17 year old Tiger to do. Actually, Earl probably wouldn't have had to say a word and I bet Tiger would have shot 87 or 86 and gone out the next day and given it whatever it is he had.

What he would not have done, however, is quit.

[Leaguegolf]

Originally Posted by stlcard_25

Can you really blame her though? I'm not making excuses for her but I certainly wouldn't want to finish out a cruddy round with the reward of getting myself banned for the rest of the season.

Blame her for withdrawing due to injury, no. Blame her for putting herself in this very questionable position, yes. The score and circumstance involving her WD have cast doubt on her integrity. The humiliation of being banned and having to face sponsors that have paid her millions comes to mind as more of a factor than her "injury."

[rodney_c]

Leaguegolf,
+9 is the WORST round she has ever shot at a mens event.
All you have to do is use your intelligence to tell you that she wouldn't be +14 thru 16 holes, about 6 shots adrift at the bottom of the leaderboard if she was injury free.

As for this nonsense of play out the round and sign a scorecard that is nonsense. If you are injured get off the course simple as that. There are anywhere in the vacinity of 5 to 10 withdrawals in many events, so it isn't a big deal.

[rodney_c]

By the way, Phil Mickelson said he wrist wasn't bad at all, but he just withdrew as a precaution. Phil is sensible.