http://talk.baltimoresun.com/showthread.php?t=103145 It was an 88, not an 85 that would have disqualified her .
Michelle Wie is 8 under through 11 holes in her round today on the LPGA tour.
She’s 3 strokes clear of the field with 4 holes to play, you mean.
Err…take that you effin canadians?
She still has to hold up for 1 more round!
Yeah, but she was sure rocking that skort! She’s old enough that I don’t sound like TOO much of a perv when I say that, right? 
Correct Dinsdale! (ITA, btw)
She looks smoking hot in the KIA commercial.
I expect she’ll continue to pocket 1 win every seven years, like clockwork.
You’re in denial if you think her career has gone well at all. And just so you know, if she finally manages to right her badly-mishandled career seven years into it, that does not in any way invalidate the criticisms voiced during those first seven years. They still remain an incredibly mismanaged seven year stumble instead of the great career it should have been.
At this point she’s no longer a child prodigy, and even with this win she doesn’t appear to be particularly gifted compared to her peers. Based on the potential she showed at 13, this qualifies as a failure.
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I expect she’ll continue to pocket 1 win every seven years, like clockwork.
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She might get her third win 10 months today. She has a 3 shot lead going into the final round.
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You’re in denial if you think her career has gone well at all. And just so you know, if she finally manages to right her badly-mishandled career seven years into it, that does not in any way invalidate the criticisms voiced during those first seven years. They still remain an incredibly mismanaged seven year stumble instead of the great career it should have been.
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She has struggled with her game. But today she may have her third LPGA win before age 21. There are not many players who have done that. She has only been a full time LPGA player for two years. How many part-time players win on the LPGA tour, PGA Tour?
Who has said anything (recently) about a child prodigy?. So not living up to potential that she showed as a young teenager is a failure? For the record, this young lady is in the top 10 in her chosen profession. How many people can actually say they are one of the ten best at their chosen profession at age 20? And next week, this young lady will be in enrolled at Stanford University and going to class like many 20 yr olds.
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- She’ll turn 21 in a month, which in golf years means she is effectively just starting out.
1a. Very very very very VERY few golfers, male or female, have won 3 top-tier professional tournaments before their age 21 birthday (yes I’m assuming she wins today-even with 2, she’d be in a tie with Paula Creamer thru age 20, 4 years her senior).
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Mismanaged career nothing. She suffered a chronic wrist injury which affected her play for about 2 years, and she understandably suffered a loss of confidence during this time. She’s past all that.
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What’s it to you anyway?
FWIW, I think there are four LPGAers who have won 3 or more events before their 21st birthday:
Paula Creamer: 3 LPGA (Sybase, Evian, Turtle Bay)
SeRi Pak: 4 (2 majors)
JiYai Shin: 4 (1 major) one major)
Amy Alcott: 3
And none of them had the press that Wie had. She was too good to play with the women. The problem is she and her staff believed it and acted upon it. They damaged her career for a few years.
Can she get past that? It is beginning to look like she may. But today she is even par and a few players are making a run at her.
Is it possible to separate the expectations that were “reasonable” for MW as a youngster, from those that were “manufactured” by the media, sponsors, and yes - those closest to MW? Also, it seems so often those comparisons are to the best that has ever played. MW would be the next Annika, combined with a little Tiger!
I think it kinda silly to place such high expectations on just about any youngster in most sports. Sure, MW and her family/advisers jumped on board the gravy train. But after some missteps and injuries, it seems she is maturing into quite an exceptional golfer, one who can compete at the highest levels of the LPGA on any weekend.
Yeah, nice denial. A two-year wrist injury is the least of her early-career problems. Remember that she was trotted out to play against the men at 13, because of course she was the next Tiger Woods. That’s what derailed her career.
That you don’t understand this amuses me.
FTR, it was age 14 and she missed the cut by one shot…one shot.
Michelle is blowing this locked up tourney big time. She is even par while players shooting 5 ,6 or 7 under are catching and passing her.
But it does not matter if she wins or not. Just being solidly in contention the last couple weeks is a big step up. She may be developing a pro game now.
The fact that she was close to shooting 90 and withdrew a couple times is a black mark. But she may have learned how to control her game better. John Daly found ways to withdraw when he was blowing up too. It was always some kind of injury, wrist or otherwise.
She birdied 17 giving her a chance. 18 is a par 5 and should be her advantage. She birdied 2 par 3s on the back.
Both Wie and Tseng birdied 18. Tseng wins. It shows a lot from Wie and she may be getting it.
I have always been one of her biggest fans and I am glad she has broken the code. Too bad the season is over.
Agreed.