A haiku to Michelle Wie's Casio World Open victim

A sad reality, her career could be over before it has a legitimate chance to get going! Anyon who doesn't believe massive damage is being done between her ears....well???

Forget about this shit!

Sadly In The Bunker has it 100% right... Who is at fault? Poor parential guidance? Yes. Nike and Sony for throwing millions? Yes. Poor instruction with DL? Yes (Leadbetter machines do well when they are very young, then burn out quickly when his mechanics fall apart. I saw her in person when she was 12. A gorgeous swing, the perfect copy of Ernie Els. Now she looks like as Costner said an unfolded lawn chair)
Advice... Go back to the LPGA where she belongs, and play a limited schedule. Go to Butch Harmon or find the teacher who taught her the basics. Finally, take the money and drop it off in the Pacific and go back to Humilityville.

Sadly In The Bunker has it 100% right... Who is at fault? Poor parential guidance? Yes. Nike and Sony for throwing millions? Yes. Poor instruction with DL? Yes (Leadbetter machiine do well when they are very young, then burn out quickly when his mechanics fall apart. I saw her in person when she was 12. A gorgeous swing, the perfect copy of Ernie Els. Now she looks like as Costner said an unfolded lawn chair)
Advice... Go back to the LPGA where she belongs, and play a limited schedule. Go to Butch Harmon or find the teacher who taught her the basics. Finally, take the money and drop it off in the Pacific and go back to Humilityville.

Stop...2 month penalty for using the "S" ord

Make that word, not ord...

It would be very difficult to be Michelle Wie Wie right now. Can you imagine knowing that anyone without an agenda (such as money or a t seeing this as some type of feminist statement)see you as somewhat pathetic? What the players on the men's tour are saying when they see you will be there and what the women say when you drag yourself back to the women's tour? What the jealous girls in the "cool clique" back at school are saying? Rather than being reason for optimism, being 17 maybe what preventing her from standing up to adults and backing off this debacle (if only for a while) rather than continuing to make these ridiculous assessment of her game. The numbers don't lie. What a sad, sad, sad affair.

Well put Brian

Bubbles said in an interview following her flop at the Casio, "I learn a lot from playing against men." I'd like to know what she could possibly have learned by traveling to Japan, playing 36 holes of lackluster golf in a second-rate tournament, scoring NO birdies but 15 bogeys and a double bogey, missing the cut by 18 strokes and finishing two rounds 27 strokes from the lead. Maybe some really dedicated Wie Warrior can supply an answer. She could undoubtedly learned a lot more if she had remained in school and studied.

Team Wie needs to fire someone again.

Brian,

You are bang on...Wie is back to a corner right now, especially now that she is getting paid millions by her sponsors. They want ROI, they would not be interested in a 'developing' star in waiting.

To satisfy these sponsors, she will have to continue to say the right things, and continue to play in men's events when she can even though deep in her heart, she probably concluded that she can not compete with them, and it is no fun to be getting anihilated whenever she plays against them.

That's a tonne of pressure for any 17 year old to handle.

Sad thing is, her predicament is not going to end any time soon.

It's quite amazing to me that guys always see Michelle Wie's story as being sad. They see her as being manipulated and/or dilusional...in a hopeless downward spiral.

Well, you know what guys? It's different for us girls. We're not wired the way you are. We can handle a defeat, or two, or ten and just get right back to the task at hand, right back to our goals, ego intact.

Don't feel sorry for Michelle; she's sure not feeling sorry for herself. She "learns a lot from playing with the men." and one of these days (...unlike guys, girls are really patient...) she's going to be where she wants to be.

That's my humble female opinon anyway, respectfully.

Patricia,

Well said...but, most girls don't play out their lives,goals and dreams on an international stage under intense media scrutiny. Most girls don't earn $20MM for a bet on the come that they'll achieve extraordinary things as a professional.

You girls may not be wired the way we are but the die is cast for Michelle. When you make the bold proclamations she's made--Masters, Ryder Cup, compete on the PGA Tour, and get paid on those proclamations, expectations to perform are justified. But a 17 yr old with no track record...it's painful to see the distress on her face and hear it in her voice. That's too much weight for a child.

Patricia, It's good that your opinion is humble.

"Comment from: Alex [Visitor]
Patricia, It's good that your opinion is humble."

A noble trait Patricia; one of many that Alex was never accused of having.

Listen, female athletes take their losses at least as hard as men do, and perhaps harder.

One-Putt, you old dog! I thought you died and went someplace! Come on, O-P, you've got to do better than that! Where are your backwoods theories about Bubbles having the strength and the tenacity to excel on ALL the tours? The other Wie Warriors are now off suicide watch and are looking to you for guidance. Judge Smails, maybe you can elicit some real inanity from old One-Putt.

It was just a matter of time until the Wie Warriors surfaced. We've now heard from One-Putt and Ghet Rheel. All we need now is for Norman to chime in with some words of wisdom and we'll have a trifecta of inane blogging.

Alex I didn't want to chime in on your verbal masturbation and spoil your climax.

This is only my humble opinion, but you and the caddy shack nick seem well able to self-entertain yourselves.

Aw, One-Putt, Where is the fire in your belly? I hope that your fantasies about Bubbles don't go the same way as her golf game is going. And what's all this snide innuendo of a sexual nature? I've always thought that when all anyone does is talk about sex, that's all he can do about it, talk.

Alex,

As I've said, the Wiemen are spent and need to recharge their batteries. Much like the PGA Tour players, they are in need of a nice hiatus from competition after a long season. It's not easy generating a continual stream of abject stupidity.

Speaking of which, Alex, I think the demoralized Wiemen need some Vi*gra for the spirit.

Judge Smails, I also have a dream about Bubbles, one which you may share. Although it is highly unlikely, I'd like to see Bubbles make the cut at the 2007 Sony, and then WIN her first outing on the LPGA tour in 2007. Far-fetched? Yes. But if these unlikely events were to occur sequentially, the torrent of utter, stark, raving insanity enanating from these blogs would make Niagara Falls seem like a trickle. The sullenness and silence now pervading the lairs of the Wie Warriors would give way to an explosion of Wie brown-nosing and butt-kissing that would put the followers of Chairman Mao and Fidel Castro to shame. The entertainment on these blogs would be priceless. So, I say "come on, Bubbles, you can do it!" In the immortal words of BJ Wie, "GO MICHELLE!"

Sony & Nike could always pay off the field to give Michelle her first cut in a PGA event. Then they could see some ROI. Hey the sponsors are god right?

Alex, very well put. I will only add that since Bubbles would, no doubt, return to her losing ways (deviation toward the mean), the Wiemen's regression to the abyss subsequent to her dalliance with success would be a happening of Z*loft proportions. Ah, the vicissitudes of manic depression.

I am in total agreement, Alex!

Go get 'em Wiesy!

Okay, I actually feel sorry for Michelle right now...sniff...

Just what we expected.....
A PERFECT finish to a PERFECT season!

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One positive note...
She "shot her age", OVER PAR ! ! ! !