So Michelle Wie may not be living up to the hype after all. Sure it was windy, but shooting a 5-over-75 put her in 103rd place in Hawaii yesterday, without a hope of making the cut. How long is the PGA Tour going to put up with tournaments offering these kinds of excemptions into their tournaments? Better yet, when is Michelle Wie going to actually win something worth mentioning? Ladies Am? Seems to me the last teen superstar, a guy named Tiger, has got a few Amateurs in his pocket. In fact almost every great pro golfer does….
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she had more coverage on ESPN than els, singh and the leaders…combined. When they ran their promos, who’s face was on them…hers. Never mond the 11 guys she’s ahead of (on her home course too)…she better worry first about beating creamer, gulbis, park, song and …oh, yeah Annika – the undisputed Queen of women’s golf. When they introduced Wie on the first tee, she really got a tepid, lukewarm ovation…when Annika got introduced at the Colonial the ovation was thunderous. Like you imply…walk the walk first, then talk the talk…