If you're dying to know the details of Michelle Wie's every shot, thegolfchannel.com is doing constant updates of the qualifying at Canoe Brook.

Through the first seven holes, the updates have already included the descriptions "pipes drive down middle" and "driver center cut."

As far as I'm concerned, golf would be better off sans these two statements.

The irony of these updates is in that thegolfchannel.com uses "catchy" and "interesting" descriptions of Wie's tee shots, but mundane and colorless descriptions of the putts she has missed. The fact is that she can "pipe" as many drives as she wants, but right now it looks like her putter will keep her out of the U.S. Open. This is a perfect example of the game today; distance is great, but it is hugely overrated when compared to the importance of making a few putts disappear. (See Fred Couples-Masters 2006).

I hope Wie can start drilling a few putts home.

***Any interesting and cheesy ways to describe putts will be appreciated.

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