Does Michelle Wie qualify for the US open June 5th?

[IwasHere]

Love her or hater her, but Michelle Wie will on June 5th try to qualify for the US open at Canoe Brook Country Club in Summit, N.J.

I, like many others out there are tired of seeing Wie use sponsor's exemptions to play in tournaments she is clearly unqualified to play in. When is the last time Wie did not have to use a Sponsor's exemption to play in a tournament? Hell, she even had to get an exemption to play in this years Women's US open!!

But, if Wie can actually qualify for the US open on her own, no exemption needed, are us Wie Haters going to be eating crow at this years open?

[Neuqua]

Hi WW!

:)

[larrymcg421]

Why did you feel the need to post the exact same thing twice?

If you're too fucking lazy to come up with an entirely new post on the subject, then you have no business criticizng a teenage female trying to compete in golf tournaments with professional adult males.

[stevew]

Someone is exposed. Nice hiding it for awhile guy.

[larrymcg421]

I thought he was already exposed? I could tell by his comments in the thread for My Name is Earl/The Office.

[IwasHere]

Why did you feel the need to post the exact same thing twice?
I'm lost here. What duplicate post are you talking about?

[stevew]

I thought he was already exposed? I could tell by his comments in the thread for My Name is Earl/The Office.

Eh, i didn't read that thread.

[IwasHere]

Someone is exposed. Nice hiding it for awhile guy.
And, what are you talking about?

My IP and ISP are both on file here for identity purposes. But, after talking to Barry Bonds, I have decided not to submit a urine test.:)

[larrymcg421]

I'm lost here. What duplicate post are you talking about?

So you deleted it instead of just editing either post with new text? You really ARE lazy.

[IwasHere]

So you deleted it instead of just editing either post with new text? You really ARE lazy.
Wake up!!! What the hell are you talking about?

I have not deleted any posts in this thread. I did edit my original post for spelling.

[larrymcg421]

I didn't say you deleted a post in this thread. It was in the other Wie thread.

As for your identity, there are only two screennames that post on this board that have an obsession with Michelle Wie. They also happen to be the same two screennames that have the same inane "staring into the camera" complaint about The Office. Yeah, I don't think that's a coincidence.

[IwasHere]

I don't remember mentioning the tournament at the Canoe Brook Country Club in any post here at the FOFC?

And, yes you are correct, I do not like The Office.

[stevew]

dude, you're fucking busted, you're WrongWay and Taur. I'm 100% sure of this. Your IP is going to show up as something random, since you use AOL or dialup. You have like a 6-8 month gap with no posts, coincidentally when WrongWay was posting his garbage. And then like a week after Skydog finally banned your ass, you show up again as Iwashere.

And the only reason I would even waste my time, is cause I can't sleep, and you are so annoying that you reminded me so much of WrongWay.

[IwasHere]

since you use AOL or dialup.
Actually it is a small DSL company. Sopris Surfers

[stevew]

which is conveniently based in the colorado region, near tourist skiing. Which other wie hating troll worked in some sort of ski resort?

[IwasHere]

which is conveniently based in the colorado region, near tourist skiing. Which other wie hating troll worked in some sort of ski resort?
Right now it is freaking Kayak Season Baby!!!

2 more days of work before I can get back in the water. All this hot weather here has the Colorado river up and the Kayaking is excellent right now.

[Butter]

Nice detective work.

You know, the 3 armed baby can do detective work easier than most, because he's got that extra hand to hold a magnifying glass with.

[NoMyths]

So when will one of our 42,000 mods finally enforce the bannination rules on this cat?

[John Galt]

You know they say that many criminals want to be caught - they want to be punished. I just haven't seen much of it in my life. I mean if you really wanted to come back to FOFC why would you troll about the EXACT same issues that got you banned before?

[cuervo72]

So when will one of our 42,000 mods finally enforce the bannination rules on this cat?

When will someone finally post....

(ah, dammit, I still have to wait 17 months to ask that...)

[Subby]

Fuck you, WrongWay.

[MIJB#19]

"In The Penalty Box"

Case closed?

[NoMyths]

Except for the fact it should read "Banned" instead. Though that's probably Ben's call, not the mods.

[PackerFanatic]

lol...WrongWay...

[stevew]

oddly, he uses the term "WrongWay" as Iwashere in this post
http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showpost.php?p=629079&postcount=58
And again, as user Taur(who is WrongWay)http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=23562

It's just an odd way to use that term, gramatically like that.

[wade moore]

So when will one of our 42,000 mods finally enforce the bannination rules on this cat?

Give me a break, we do sleep you know.

[sachmo71]

"In The Penalty Box"

Case closed?


Everything but.

[TroyF]

Except for the fact it should read "Banned" instead. Though that's probably Ben's call, not the mods.


Always. Two mods agree to a boxing, then there is a discussion to determine length.

[sachmo71]

So when will one of our 42,000 mods finally enforce the bannination rules on this cat?


LOL!

[Bee]

Give me a break, we do sleep you know.

together?


kinky! ;)

[wade moore]

together?


kinky! ;)

Only if you know the handshake.

[MJ4H]

This remnids me of Moleculo Man

[albionmoonlight]

In some ways, I am jealous. I have very few things in my life that means as much to me as WrongWay's blind, pure hatred of Michelle Wie means to him.

Edit--I guess that I just find it funny because it is so random. It's Michelle Wie, for goodness sake. I can't really see getting that worked up about any athelete, but I could understand on some level hating, say, Pete Rose that much--maybe Barry Bonds in the current climate.

But Michelle Wie? Is hatred of Michelle Wie really worth multiple bannings and boxings over the course of months?

[kcchief19]

I think it's unfair to bash WrongWay/Taur/IWasHere/InsertFutureNameHere for his Wie hatred.

I think we should also engage in some bashing of him for his love of the Elmo Knows Your Name doll, that must-have Christmas toy of 2005 that was readily available at many major retailers all the way through the holiday season.

[Daimyo]

So did WrongWay actually change ISPs to get around the IP ban? I kind of assumed that an obsession with bashing Michelle Wie was about as pathetic as one could get, but I guess I shouldn't underestimate people.

[stevew]

I don't know what he did to get around the ban, he may have been a dialup guy in the past. Those people can keep coming back if they calm down in their future incarnations, since they have no static IP.

Basically IWH was just being a total unrealistically argumentitive douchebag in that lump sum thread, and he just reminded me so much of wrongway. So I look at it, basically IWH has about a year long gap with no posts when WrongWay was trolling. And then he shows up after WrongWay got banned.

A different day I was bored done some looking into who the hell WrongWay even was, I thought it had to be some crazy person who used to post here. He used to go by the user name Taur on here. Basically the FOFLive site was taken out in a name that when i googled it, it showed up as a guy who went by the username Taur FOF-related. Taur and IwasHere both make mention of "WrongWay" tommy Maddox in separate posts, spelled just like the user name.

So it would have to almost be some impossible consequence for WrongWay/Taur/IwasHere to not be the same guy, even before the whole Wie hating thing.

Yes I have way too much time on my hands.

[Swaggs]

This remnids me of Moleculo Man

That is an underrated episode of SNL. Moleculo Man and the white boxer character were great.

[st.cronin]

For some reason I find it hilarious that the poll is still open.

[DanGarion]

Who the hell cares?

[Groundhog]

That is an underrated episode of SNL. Moleculo Man and the white boxer character were great.

hxxp://www.keegan.org/jeff/humor/Moleculo.mov

[BrianD]

Was there any word on the official bannination? I see it has happened, but I'm surprised there hasn't been more discussion about it.

[NoMyths]

Seemed to be pretty justly banned, Brian. Even shorty wouldn't protest this one, methinks. ;)

[sachmo71]

Was there any word on the official bannination? I see it has happened, but I'm surprised there hasn't been more discussion about it.


Banned members who post on the board under a new handle are instantly banned. If you want you can PM any of the mods and they'll be happy to discuss it with you. :)

[st.cronin]

Banned members who post on the board under a new handle are instantly banned. If you want you can PM any of the mods and they'll be happy to discuss it with you. :)

I AM OUTRAGED

[Ben E Lou]

I AM OUTRAGEDWell, there IS an alternative. (http://www.digitalstadium.org/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=eef944a7360ff35485b06043855c53a1&board=17.0)

[sachmo71]

I AM OUTRAGED


pm me that rage, ok?

[BrianD]

Mainly I was curious if that really was WrongWay. It is odd because I never had WrongWay on ignore since he seemed a little annoying but mostly harmless. IwasHere got on my ignore list almost immediately. Not sure why one of his personalities got to me but the other one didn't.

[kcchief19]

Well, there IS an alternative. (http://www.digitalstadium.org/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=eef944a7360ff35485b06043855c53a1&board=17.0)
WVUFan and JOKER ruined what would otherwise henceforth be known as a Franklinfecta.

[sachmo71]

Mainly I was curious if that really was WrongWay. It is odd because I never had WrongWay on ignore since he seemed a little annoying but mostly harmless. IwasHere got on my ignore list almost immediately. Not sure why one of his personalities got to me but the other one didn't.


from an ip address standpoint, the evidence was pretty clear. stevew covered everything else. :D

[BrianD]

Probably not the best place to ask this, but does anyone know if there will be a live scoreboard showing this round today? I'd like to follow her progress.

[albionmoonlight]

Probably not the best place to ask this, but does anyone know if there will be a live scoreboard showing this round today? I'd like to follow her progress.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/golf/06/05/wie.usopen/index.html

[BrianD]

Ok, now is there any way to know what her scores mean in the context of the rest of the field?

[Joe]

WVUFan and JOKER ruined what would otherwise henceforth be known as a Franklinfecta.

Holy shit... is anyone else even allowed to post on that board? It's like Front Office Franklin Central.

[larrymcg421]

Ok, now is there any way to know what her scores mean in the context of the rest of the field?

From what I've heard, she needs a -2 or -3 to qualify.

[KWhit]

Holy shit... is anyone else even allowed to post on that board? It's like Front Office Franklin Central.

:D

[Young Drachma]

http://www.ghin.com/scoring/stroke.html

Here's is the realtime leaderboad at the Canoe Brook sectional where Wie is playing, that will give you the scores of the whole field.

[TroyF]

http://www.ghin.com/scoring/stroke.html

Here's is the realtime leaderboad at the Canoe Brook sectional where Wie is playing, that will give you the scores of the whole field.


-1 under through 12 according to ESPN. This just a bit behind, but you can see how she's doing relative to the rest of the field.

[kcchief19]

-1 under through 16 now, one shot off the playoff line.

Just parred 16.

[digamma]

-1 under through 16 now, one shot off the playoff line.

Just parred 16.

Isn't it a 36 hole event?

[moriarty]

Isn't it a 36 hole event?

Yes. I think he means shes' one shot off it it were to end today.

[digamma]

I think they play the second 18 this afternoon.

[Young Drachma]

I think they play the second 18 this afternoon.


Yup

[moriarty]

I think they play the second 18 this afternoon.

Ok, so she's one shot off it were to end right now. :)

[digamma]

Ok, so she's one shot off it were to end right now. :)

Perfect!

[kcchief19]

Yes, it's 36 holes. Right now she's tied for 30th. Top 18 qualify. The playoff line is currently -2, since there is a 19-way tie for 11th place. If it finished that way this afternoon, there would be a sudden death playoff for the last eight spots.

The cutline will move this afternoon, in all likelihood. I haven't heard about the scoring conditions, so I don't know if it will be easier or harder to put up a good score in the afternoon. She also played the south course this morning, which is a shorter course and by slope rating is slightly easier than the north course. The south course normally plays to a par-72, but it's a par-70 for today.

I'd feel better about her chances if she were playing this well on the north course. Of the top 29 right now, 16 played the south course first.

To her credit, there are quite a few PGA players past and present behind her, including Mark O'Meara, who granted his better days are behind him.

[Young Drachma]

Nice birdie on 18 to put her in a tie for 11th (-2) at the moment.

[kcchief19]

A bogey on No. 1 in the afternoon round puts here back at 1-under through 23 holes. She's back to one shot off the playoff line, which as of now would be about 20 players for four slots.

I think she'll need to go -2 under from here in to at least make the playoff -- it looks like the playoff will be a least 3-under, maybe 4-under.

[Young Drachma]

That North course she's on now looks like hell. 18 is 609 yards. That USGA doesn't mess around, man.

That said, I saw a few holes that I figure she'd have to birdie to get to her goal and I dunno if she's gonna do it. That said, she's done a heck of a job even making it this far and I figure she'll make it sooner than later.

[vtbub]

She makes the turn at even on her round, -2 today. That puts her at a tie for 23rd. Incredible no matter what happens.

[kcchief19]

That North course she's on now looks like hell. 18 is 609 yards. That USGA doesn't mess around, man.

That said, I saw a few holes that I figure she'd have to birdie to get to her goal and I dunno if she's gonna do it. That said, she's done a heck of a job even making it this far and I figure she'll make it sooner than later.
Luckily she played the back nine first, which apparently is the tougher of the nine. No. 4 is a 362-yard par 4 -- that could be a birdie hole. If she gets a birdie there, she has a chance. She's got two par-3s in her final five holes -- if she can stick an iron close, maybe she can get a birdie there. No 7 is a 212-yard par-3 -- that's the kind of hole it's tough to stick one close.

4-under will likely qualify with 3-under probably the playoff. The playoff could be 8-12 golfers for 1 or 2 slots. That's brutal.

[Young Drachma]

She just bogeyed, so she's at -1 with 5 holes to go.

She's done a good job today, but someone really needs to help her with her putting. She's been struggling with that now for a while.

That said, if that's the only glaring weakness you can find in the game of a teenage GIRL competing with men, then I guess its not a terrible place to be.

[kcchief19]

Tough break. From my limited viewing of her play, I don't think it's her putting that is a much of a problem as is how long of putts she has to make. Even at the women's U.S. Open when she was contending, she has tended to leave herself a lot of long putts. But that's an experience thing. Tiger did the same thing early in his career too -- positioning on the green is more critical on tour than almost anything else. You can hit all the greens you want, but if you have 20-foot putts all day long, you won't score.

Great effort, though. Considering something like 6,000 people try to qualify for The Open, coming up one shot short is an incredible accomplishment. There are PGA golfers who will finish behind her.

[Young Drachma]

Tough break. From my limited viewing of her play, I don't think it's her putting that is a much of a problem as is how long of putts she has to make. Even at the women's U.S. Open when she was contending, she has tended to leave herself a lot of long putts. But that's an experience thing. Tiger did the same thing early in his career too -- positioning on the green is more critical on tour than almost anything else. You can hit all the greens you want, but if you have 20-foot putts all day long, you won't score.

Great effort, though. Considering something like 6,000 people try to qualify for The Open, coming up one shot short is an incredible accomplishment. There are PGA golfers who will finish behind her.

Good observations.

And two-time major winner Mark O'Meara is behind her on the leaderboard.

[Axxon]

Tough break. From my limited viewing of her play, I don't think it's her putting that is a much of a problem as is how long of putts she has to make. Even at the women's U.S. Open when she was contending, she has tended to leave herself a lot of long putts. But that's an experience thing. Tiger did the same thing early in his career too -- positioning on the green is more critical on tour than almost anything else. You can hit all the greens you want, but if you have 20-foot putts all day long, you won't score.

Great effort, though. Considering something like 6,000 people try to qualify for The Open, coming up one shot short is an incredible accomplishment. There are PGA golfers who will finish behind her.

Honestly, I'm just glad we're discussing her qualifying and not her overall performance. Man I just wish I could watch this on tv and I don't watch golf.

Wie detractors, tell me again how she's bad for the sport.

Go Michelle!!

[Young Drachma]

She's at +1 currently. Oh well. She did put up a good fight and that course is hard as hell...she'll be back. It'd be nice to see her be able to finish out even or something.

[clintl]

Wie detractors, tell me again how she's bad for the sport.



He can't. He's been banned.

[Huckleberry]

She did put up a good fight and that course is hard as hell...she'll be back.

She's a fantastic talent and a great golfer. But the course excuse should be left out of it. She should be judged as she plays - by the same criteria as the men. She and her competitors were all playing on the same "hard as hell" course. If she had played an easier course, they would have as well.

She is due many congratulations on her fine play.

[Axxon]

He can't. He's been banned.

Good point.

[Axxon]

She's a fantastic talent and a great golfer. But the course excuse should be left out of it. She should be judged as she plays - by the same criteria as the men. She and her competitors were all playing on the same "hard as hell" course. If she had played an easier course, they would have as well.

She is due many congratulations on her fine play.

Great sentiment. I wholeheartedly concur and I'd wager that this sentiment is exactly what she's fighting for.

[Young Drachma]

She's a fantastic talent and a great golfer. But the course excuse should be left out of it. She should be judged as she plays - by the same criteria as the men. She and her competitors were all playing on the same "hard as hell" course. If she had played an easier course, they would have as well.

She is due many congratulations on her fine play.

What I was trying to say was, the course was tough. She played well and has beaten a lot of men on a tough course. I'm judging her and always have, as a teenager who's competing largely against seasoned amateurs and professionals, not as a woman.

When you add that part to it, its even more impressive because no one else has seriously considered TRYING this before and yet, here is she is doing it in the face of a lot of folks who are all over her saying that she ought to be getting dolled up for her prom instead.

[BrianD]

Great effort, though. Considering something like 6,000 people try to qualify for The Open, coming up one shot short is an incredible accomplishment. There are PGA golfers who will finish behind her.

She came up 5 shots short. Looked like she had a shot for a while.

[Young Drachma]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13173478/

A teenager from Hawaii made it to the U.S. Open, just not Michelle Wie.

Tadd Fujikawa, a 15-year-old who just completed his freshman year at Moanalua High School, beat out nine other players in the smallest U.S. Open sectional qualifier to earn a trip to Winged Foot next week.

Wie beat Fujikawa in the 18-hole local qualifying round last month at Turtle Bay, but opted to go through sectional qualifying in New Jersey because she is playing the LPGA Championship this week near Baltimore, about three hours away.

Fujikawa advanced through local qualifying by making a 60-foot birdie putt on the third playoff hole after a 74. On Monday at Poipu Bay, he had rounds of 71-70 to secure the only berth from Hawaii.


Michelle sure paved a harder road for herself by going to Jersey to qualify. But anyone thinking that she just wanted to go be a sideshow at the Open, would have figured that she'd have forgone the LPGA Championship this weekend to qualify at home for the Open, where it might have been as close to a sure thing as she'll ever get.

But then, maybe they didn't want her to go there and have a bad day, lose to that kid and have everyone really point fingers at her not being "ready" for this level. At least in Jersey, she could lose to plenty of PGA players and other pros, so people could nod and go "well, at least she tried" or whatever.

Interesting.

[WVUFAN]

WVUFan and JOKER ruined what would otherwise henceforth be known as a Franklinfecta.

Wait ... how'd I get involved in this? Not sure I understand what you're saying.

EDIT: I'm a little dense, so it took me a little bit o'time to get this. Heh. :-)

[Young Drachma]

Tied for 5th at the LPGA's McDonalds Championship (a major) this past weekend, two strokes off the win.

She finished ahead of Annika Sorenstam and Paula Creamer and Morgan Pressel finished 65th or something.

[Ksyrup]

Dewey Defeats Truman!



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By DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer

HAVRE DE GRACE, Md.

Burned out, injured and all but forgotten for two years, Se Ri Pak (http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22Se+Ri+Pak%22&sid=breitbart.com) returned to the spotlight in stunning fashion Sunday when she hit a utility club 3 inches from the cup to give her a playoff victory over Karrie Webb (http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22Karrie+Webb%22&sid=breitbart.com) in the LPGA Championship (http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22LPGA+Championship%22&sid=breitbart.com).
Pak atoned for a three-putt bogey on the 18th hole in regulation that kept her from winning, delivering a spectacular finish to a tournament that was up for grabs over the final two hours at Bulle Rock.
http://www.breitbart.com/images/2006/6/11/D8I6AVU83/D8I6AVU83_preview.jpg
It all must have looked familiar to Webb, who was trying to capture the second leg of the Grand Slam (http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22Grand+Slam%22&sid=breitbart.com).
Just two months ago, Webb holed a pitching wedge from 116 yards on the 18th hole at the Kraft Nabisco Championship for an eagle that got her into a playoff, and her victory was a sign that the Hall of Famer's game had returned.
"I thought I was getting my own medicine," Webb said after watching Pak's remarkable shot from about 200 yards.
Webb also had gone through some struggles while retooling her swing, and after winning the Kraft Nabisco, Pak saw her a few weeks later and gave her a big hug.
"She told me, 'Now it's my turn. I'll win the next one,'" Webb recalled.
Michelle Wie (http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22Michelle+Wie%22&sid=breitbart.com) was among six players who had a chance to either win or get into a playoff on the final hole, but the 16-year-old from Hawaii wasted too many chances.
Pak's last victory was two years ago at the Michelob Ultra Open, which gave her enough points for the World Golf Hall of Fame. Then, the 28- year-old South Korean and her electric smile all but vanished from the LPGA Tour (http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22LPGA+Tour%22&sid=breitbart.com), and she sat out the last three months of the 2005 season to get healthy and get happy.
She was plenty happy standing in the 18th fairway in the playoff.
The ball rolled true to the hole and looked like it might go in, much like Shaun Micheel's 7-iron at Oak Hill when he won the 2003 PGA Championship (http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22PGA+Championship%22&sid=breitbart.com), and it stopped 3 inches short.
Pak raised both arms in victory, then delivered a massive uppercut to signal her return.
Webb, who missed birdie putts of 4 and 10 feet on the last two holes in regulation, hit her approach in the playoff to about 20 feet, but the putt to force another hole veered well to the left.
Pak won her fifth major, and joined Mickey Wright, Kathy Whitworth, Patty Sheehan and Annika Sorenstam as the only three-time winners of the LPGA Championship.
Wie's third birdie in a five-hole stretch brought her within one of the lead, but she missed the 16th green with a wedge and watched her 4-foot par putt spin 270 degrees out of the cup. She narrowly missed an 8-foot birdie on the 171-yard 17th, then had to make a 50-foot birdie on the 18th to join the playoff. It looked good until the final few feet, then ran 8 feet by and she wound up three-putting for bogey and a 72 to tie for fifth.
"I feel like I'm getting closer and closer," she said. "It shows a lot that I played my `B' game and I'm still in the top five."
Pak became the seventh South Korean in 14 events to win on the LPGA Tour, and it was fitting that hers came in a major. Pak was responsible for so many joining her in the United States, with 32 players from South Korea now on the LPGA Tour.
And she needed a few breaks.
She holed a 50-foot birdie putt on the par-3 12th hole to stay in the game, and she surged into the lead with a chip-and-putt birdie on the par-5 15th and a wedge from the rough to within 4 feet for birdie on the 16th.
Better yet, she put the three-putt bogey on the 18th hole in regulation out of her mind.
Pak laid back off the tee on the 385-yard closing hole in the playoff, leaving her a long shot with her utility club. But it never left its line, and all Webb could do was smile.
More than 10,000 people who walked through the rolling hills on the back nine and lined the 18th fairway got their money's worth. As the leaders headed to the back nine, a dozen players were separated by two shots.
One of those was Sorenstam, who made a gallant run at an unprecedented fourth straight McDonald's LPGA Championship, only to see any hope fizzle with a mental mistake. The Swede starting pouring in putts along the back nine, making four straight birdies, and was trying to make a 20-foot birdie on the last hole to post at 7 under.
But she ran it 10 feet by the cup and three-putted for bogey and a 68.
"I saw it was quick, but standing over it, you have to get to 7 (under), and sometimes things don't compute," Sorenstam said. "I just rammed it way too hard and I was thinking, 'Wow, you saw how fast it was; what are you doing?'"
Cristie Kerr (http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22Cristie+Kerr%22&sid=breitbart.com) also made a late charge and was at 7 under when she went after the back pin on the 18th. It sailed over the green, onto the rocks and into the water.
"I'm experienced. I've played in a lot of these," Kerr said. "The only person I can blame is myself." Shi Hyun Ahn did the same, needing a birdie while playing with Wie and winding up in the water. By the end of the day, the show belonged to Webb and Pak, a flashback to their days of winning the majors.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/11/D8I6AVU83.html

[vtbub]

Tied for 5th at the LPGA's McDonalds Championship (a major) this past weekend, two strokes off the win.

She finished ahead of Annika Sorenstam and Paula Creamer and Morgan Pressel finished 65th or something.

If she figures out how to putt, she'll be deadly. Lipped out three biridie putts this afternoon, but her poise is getting better.

[Young Drachma]

Dewey Defeats Truman!



<TABLE width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>Wie Gets Playoff Victory Over Webb
Jun 11 8:05 PM US/Eastern
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By DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer


Oops!

Wow...I guess that reporter was pissed he was watching Women's golf on a sunday and wanted to get out of there. Doesn't he know that only native Koreans win on the tour now? They're like the biggest nightmare for the LPGA Commish, so much so that the tour still probably hasn't hired a full-time intepreter for them, despite how many of them are on tour (and win tournaments.)

[Young Drachma]

If she figures out how to putt, she'll be deadly. Lipped out three biridie putts this afternoon, but her poise is getting better.

I bet playing that qualifier in Jersey actually helped her, because she saw the pins at the McDonalds and probably laughed at how much easier it was. But yeah, if all she needs to get consistent on the greens (And who doesn't?) then we're gonna be in for a real show pretty soon.

I hate to feel good at Morgan Pressel doing so poorly, but..she was such a mouthy little thing from the start and she'll surely turn out to be good in the end, but...I'm sure the LPGA wasn't happy at how this turned out, because they probably hoped one of the "young guns" from America could eclipse all the Wie-mania this weekend..but it wasn't to be.

[vtbub]

She needs to figure out when to press and when to back off the throttle a bit. Frankly, she left four shots on the green yesterday, she should have won.

I saw big improvement from last fall. Experience is her friend.

[TroyF]

She needs to figure out when to press and when to back off the throttle a bit. Frankly, she left four shots on the green yesterday, she should have won.

I saw big improvement from last fall. Experience is her friend.

She's getting better and better. consistently finishing in the top five of womens majors. She'll knock down the door soon and win. My guess is it's going to be like how Tiger won The Masters.

She's going to keep having tournies like this where she leaves shots all over the place and finishes top five and then she'll have the tournament where everything clicks and the thing is over after day 3. Three womens events played this year and she's finished 3, 3, 5, the latter two in majors.

[clintl]

Oops!

Wow...I guess that reporter was pissed he was watching Women's golf on a sunday and wanted to get out of there. Doesn't he know that only native Koreans win on the tour now? They're like the biggest nightmare for the LPGA Commish, so much so that the tour still probably hasn't hired a full-time intepreter for them, despite how many of them are on tour (and win tournaments.)

Blame the editor, not the reporter. Reporters typically don't write the headlines that actually end up being used.

[Samdari]

She's getting better and better. consistently finishing in the top five of womens majors. She'll knock down the door soon and win. My guess is it's going to be like how Tiger won The Masters.

She's going to keep having tournies like this where she leaves shots all over the place and finishes top five and then she'll have the tournament where everything clicks and the thing is over after day 3. Three womens events played this year and she's finished 3, 3, 5, the latter two in majors.

Its not like different parts of her game keep falling apart, and she cannot ever put it all together. It is consistenly her horrendous putting that keeps dooming her. She was unquestionably the best player this weekend tee to green but could not make a putt. She really has to fix that.

[moriarty]

Its not like different parts of her game keep falling apart, and she cannot ever put it all together. It is consistenly her horrendous putting that keeps dooming her. She was unquestionably the best player this weekend tee to green but could not make a putt. She really has to fix that.

I agree her putting is the weakest area of her game, but coming down the stretch yesterday it looked more like her short irons were killing her. She had two wedge shots in a row on the last few holes that got no where close, and not sure what club she hit on 18 out of the rough but she wasn't anywhere near the hole.

You could also make an argument her driver killed her on Saturday. I watched a bit of the back 9, and she was spraying that thing all over the course.

[QuikSand]

Blame the editor, not the reporter. Reporters typically don't write the headlines that actually end up being used.

They all look the same, I guess. *shurg*