What's best for Michelle Wie?
Now that mulligan appears to be on break, thought I should submit a post. Thumbing through a recent Sports Illustrated, I found some interesting commentary on what Michelle Wie should do. I totally, 100 percent, for sure, agree with these experts!
Nancy Lopez says: "If I had a 16 year old who could play the way Michelle does, I would never encourage her to play the men's tour. When I was a girl I wanted to win, and I think it's impossible for Michelle to win on the men's tour. Plus, most PGA Tour players probably don't want her on their tour. They won't say that, but I'm speaking for them. We need Michelle to bring people in the gates. The LPGA has great young players with personality, and Michelle is one of them. Michelle is a woman and should support the women's tour."
Dottie Pepper says: "Her remaining summer and fall schedule has her making two trips to Europe, for events on the LPGA and European men's tour; another PGA Tour start; endorsement appearances in New York City; and then a final LPGA start in Palm Desert, California. In between she'll squeeze in a few trips home to Hawaii for school. Enough already! Her PGA Tour appearances have started to become a sideshow. Michelle and her advisers decided that she'd turn pro last fall; that can't be changed. But she could limit her play to the seven LPGA events permitted under the current rules, enabling her to learn the flavor and art of winning and, above all, to enjoy being a kid. Her bank account may be full, but the robbers are stealing her childhood. It only comes once."
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I'm usually in the "let her play" camp, but Dottie Pepper makes good points about lost youth. Don't you think Tiger treasures those years at Stanford?
It might be better for her, long-term, to be less active during the school year now.
Tiger only played a single year at Stanford, and won the NCAA singles title that year as well, but I think your point is still extremely valid when you consider his total amateur career. If you asked Tiger in private there's a great chance that he would say that his most important victories were his three US Amateur crowns....there's just something about amateur status.
Regarding lost-youth, I would be very proud to have my daughter be world famous like Michelle, but I would also be extremely saddened as well by not being able to spend time with her.
If what I read is true, I may have lost all respect for Michelle Wie (and especially her family). I read that after her poor performance at the Women's British Open, she fired her caddie. That in itself is not so earth-shattering, except that her caddie heard he was fired by being told by Wie's agent at the Manchester airport after the tournament. I know that a player and caddie may have falling out and part ways. That's just part of the business of professional golf. But when you fire your caddie following your lowest finish of the year, it sure looks like you are trying to place blame on the caddie for your own poor performance Michelle. What's worse is that you or a member of your family don't have the dignity to tell the guy face-to-face that he's been fired? That's just gutless and disrespectful to someone who's stood by you throughout your professional career. I can't believe that Michelle's star-crazed idiotic parents would not tell their prima-donna daughter to have some class and tell the guy to his face that he's no longer her caddie. Or why can't one of those parents do it themselves. It just smacks of a total lack of class.
If this is true, I wish Michelle nothing but the worst in her career. You reap what you sow young lady.
If what I read is true, I may have lost all respect for Michelle Wie (and especially her family). I read that after her poor performance at the Women's British Open, she fired her caddie. That in itself is not so earth-shattering, except that her caddie heard he was fired by being told by Wie's agent at the Manchester airport after the tournament. I know that a player and caddie may have falling out and part ways. That's just part of the business of professional golf. But when you fire your caddie following your lowest finish of the year, it sure looks like you are trying to place blame on the caddie for your own poor performance Michelle. What's worse is that you or a member of your family don't have the dignity to tell the guy face-to-face that he's been fired? That's just gutless and disrespectful to someone who's stood by you throughout your professional career. I can't believe that Michelle's star-crazed idiotic parents would not tell their prima-donna daughter to have some class and tell the guy to his face that he's no longer her caddie. Or why can't one of those parents do it themselves. It just smacks of a total lack of class.
If this is true, I wish Michelle nothing but the worst in her career. You reap what you sow young lady.
The formula is simple: keep playing whenever and wherever she wants and the rest will take care of itself.
She's just playing golf. I disagree that she's losing her youth in some way, she still attends school in Hawaii full-time. She just happens to play in some tournaments that are much higher profile than the typical teenager. Maybe if she dropped out of school and starting playing the tour full-time then those comments would have more validity.
YoungTom...where did you read that? could you post the link?
It is entertaining to me how the other LPGA players freely talk about how she should be playing the women's tour exclusively, and that she is losing her childhood. Yet on the same note, they don't describe how the LPGA essentially keeps Wie from regularly playing the women's tour.
Wie is only allowed to play a limited number of times (7) on the LPGA because of her age. Also, because of her age, if she finishes in the top 10, she does not automatically get in the next week's tournament (it counts as one of her 7).
Wie plays in 7 LPGA events. Pepper and Lopez were never restricted in their youth because they never played at that level in their youth to consider going professional at that age. Plus, the money was never alluring enough in their era to consider it. All in all, we are in a different world now, and their opinions are solely what they are...opinions from those that can't seem to put themselves in someone else's shoes.
Link to story:
http://www.thegolfchannel.com/core.aspx?page=15100&select=20335
Well..while I agree that the Wie camp's approach to the firing was far from tactful, I really do think it's the right move. Johnston is a great caddy who has spent years working with veteran pros, but thats the problem - Wie needs a caddy that is focused on guiding her in how to be a pro, not so much how to play golf (reading putts, course management, etc.) Ultimately she will need figure the game out on her own, but the process of managing a tournament is where the right caddy comes into play. Think back to her DQ at the Samsung, and a near DQ at the British (she almost didn't take a penatly stroke for hitting a leaf on her back swing in a bunker)...it wasn't her golf that was at issue, it was that she wasn't experienced enough to know the ins and out of the tournament process, something the right caddy should be helping with. My guess is that her relationship with Johnston has been icy for a while and that the near miss with the leaf was a final blow. not to mention a seemingly poor showing. To be honest, though, while she is on track in saying that said she "learned a lot" in this tournament, I think that she ultimately showed her cards and that the British will be her nemesis for years to come.
This is Nancy's and Dottie's argument, in brief: support the LPGA and help make us money, but don't complain when we, the LPGA, do not support you.
She's playing the max LPGA event and therefore her men's tour playing doesn't do anything to the LPGA.
Of course, the money she's won in the LPGA events do not count for the money list and year end tourny and next year's exemption lists - so there will be hoopla about her 2007 exemption into the British Open.
Typical, hypocritical bs from people who "graciously" give advice.
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