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 eligible and have her earnings [...]
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 the 2006 LPGA schedule. However, [...]
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, she was taught a bitter [...]
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 golf’s teenage superstar can ever [...]
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 has started in six men’s [...]