NBC's cameras captured Michelle Wie obviously unsuccessfully fighting tears after one of her two-foot putt misses in the front nine of her collapse Sunday afternoon. Nothing wrong with that. She's only 15.
Well, there's nothing wrong with that unless you're wagering the future of your entire sport on this still fragile competitor. Still think LPGA officials are so convinced their Wie future is so bright?
Call me heartless, but Wie looks like a Jennifer Capariati of golf waiting to happen. Scratch that. At least, Capariati won some major tournaments before she burned out. And Capariati was 10 times tougher than Wie at 15.
It's not all the Wie family's fault. Maybe all of us in the media will think twice before buying the hype machine of junior high graduate athletes after seeing the early steps of Michelle Wie and Freddy Adu.
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