http://michellewienews.com/wordpress A collection of Michelle Wie news from around the world Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:10:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en HONOLULU — A 79 was not the springboard she was looking for to launch her first full season as a pro. But how much of a setback has Michelle Wie suffered in her quest to play against PGA Tour players? "You never know," said Camilo Villegas, who was paired with Wie ... http://michellewienews.com/wordpress/?p=51 Anybody catch Mark Rolfing’s Golf Hawaii last night on the Golf Channel? He had Michelle Wie as a guest, and asked her “which would give you more satisfaction, making the cut in a PGA tournament, or winning on the LGPA?” Way to put her on the spot, Mark! Let’s see: choose to ... http://michellewienews.com/wordpress/?p=50 The LPGA Tour made an exception yesterday for 17-year-old Morgan Pressel, accepting her as a member instead of making her wait until she turns 18 three months after the season begins. The decision means that Pressel, a senior at St. Andrews School in Boca Raton, Fla., can play wherever she is ... http://michellewienews.com/wordpress/?p=49 Commissioner Carolyn Bivens has done her part to get the ball rolling by granting Morgan Pressel full LPGA Tour membership at the beginning of the golf year. Now 2 of the big 3 rookies (Pressel & Ai Miyazato) have secured entry into the Kraft Nabisco, the 1st Major tournament on ... http://michellewienews.com/wordpress/?p=48 She used to face-off against pros as an amateur. Competing in eight of LPGA tour competitions, she took second place three times, including one second-place finish in the LPGA championship. In December, she turned pro and signed a sponsorship contracts worth 10 million dollars from Sony and Nike. With the whole world watching, ... http://michellewienews.com/wordpress/?p=47 Golfing phenomenon Michelle Wie is bracketed with Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan by publicists and marketing experts. At 16, she's already a mini-industry. But there's one problem: she's hardly won anything. Jason Zinoman goes behind the hype, the lucrative endorsements and the press conferences with Bill Clinton to ask whether ... http://michellewienews.com/wordpress/?p=46 Golfer Michelle Wie cried when she missed the cut at the Casio World Open in Kochi on Nov. 25, but she still has millions of reasons to laugh. Professional golf has not proved as easy to dominate as the 16-year-old may have hoped. Including the event at Kochi's Kuroshio Country Club, Wie ... http://michellewienews.com/wordpress/?p=45 Is the Korean American girl who falls in love with the narrator in the novel PUNAHOU BLUES based on the real life Michelle Wie? Is the Love Life of Michelle Wie exposed in this highly acclaimed Hawaiian novel? "It’s purely coincidental Jeff’s love interest goes to the same school as Michelle Wie ... http://michellewienews.com/wordpress/?p=44 KOCHI (Japan): Michelle Wie was heading home Sunday after an early exit from her first overseas tour as a pro but the Korean-American teenager said she hopes to return to play more tournaments in Asia. “Yeah, I’d love to come back,” the 16-year-old prodigy said in the TV commentators’ booth ... http://michellewienews.com/wordpress/?p=43 Michelle Wie's bid to become the first woman to make the cut on one of the major men's tours in 60 years ended in failure in Japan after a disastrous finish to her second round on Friday. The 16-year-old Hawaiian bogeyed her last two holes in a second-round 75 to finish ... http://michellewienews.com/wordpress/?p=42