Michelle Wie shoots 82 today ...

Michelle Wie is the greatest golfer of all time. Everybody already knew that by the time she was 15. She's just set the bar so high with her complete dominance of both the men's and women's tours that she can't possibly live up to the expectations. You all need to back off of her and just watch history unfold before your eyes. Bask in the greatness that is Michelle Wie and enjoy it while it lasts because we may never see anyone as great as her again.

 

She finished tied for 3rd last year. Whatever issues people have with her playing men's events, why wouldn't she play here in an major that she qualified for, even if her game obviously not where it should be?

 

Fixed.....

 

If she is indeed hurt and given all she has been through this year, and with all due respect, this is the point where the adults in her camp need to pull her back, scale back what she is doing and let her work through this injury without all of the pressure and everything else. It is just time -- she needs to take a few months off and get her head together because I fear at this rate she is going to damage her career to the point where it is beyond repair.

I think if the people handling her care about her, they should just advise her to take a little break and regroup -- there is nothing wrong with that and it is something we all need to do from time to time.

 

With her reduced workload (golf on Thursdays and Fridays only), the wrist should be healing up pretty fast.

 

Kerri Strug was asked to do one physical act while injured. Michelle Wie is being asked (forced?) to hit a golf ball hundreds of times in practice and then competitive rounds, while being injured. Even Phil Mickelson withdrew from three tournaments before the U.S. Open, then withdrew from the next one after that.

 

Some days the wrist feels fine. Some days it doesn't. It's one of those borderline things where the wrists need strengthening . . . but they also need rest. It's hard to satisfy both requirements without just writing off 2007.

People like this generally WANT to compete, even when they "shouldn't" (as if any of us has any right to make that call anyway).

If you have proof she is being forced to do anything, provide it.

 

Do you demand five sources when someone says the sun rises in the east?
There must be a million things a 17 year old girl wants to do besides hang a snowman on the board in the U.S. Open, with a hurt wrist, with all the criticism, when you've been the Chosen One.
Such as ditch the stage parents from hell, all the Nike flacks, the idiot agent and go to a frat party and get bombed.

 

Because she failed to get permission from the He Man Wimmen Haters Club hereabouts, that's why.

 

No proof yet, but when she turns 18 and then sues her parents, like many of these prodigy's seem to do, it will be very telling.

And the fact that she is ONLY 17 is an even better argument for why she should step back and write off this year or the next few months and regroup -- she has plenty of time before she even reaches her prime. A few months off right now isn't going to hurt and would most likely help.

 

Yes, that's what this is about sexism. You really nailed it again, nothing gets by you.

 

I don't have a problem with her playing in this tournament. And she was smart to turn down the sponsor's exemption to the John Deere Classic.

But, if she hangs another 80-plus on the scoreboard tomorrow, I hope someone among her group of advisers thinks it might be time for her to shut it down for a couple of months.