Everyone in the world of golf has to be happy Michelle Wie has her first LPGA win. Playing in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Mexico, Wie, Creamer, Shin and Kerr created great theater right up to the final day, all good news for the game of golf and for the LPGA in particular. Did you see those crowds at Guadalajara Country Club?

With Annika gone from the pro scene, Lorena struggling a bit and the Koreans coming on strong, Hawaiian-born Wie comes into focus like a fresh breath of air to give renewed reason for everyone to watch the LPGA events.

All those naysayers who carped that Wie was burned out after failing to qualify as the first woman to play the men's U.S. Open four years ago, who whined she was in a slump, when for heaven's sake, she was only 16 at the time, can eat their words. How can you have a "slump" at that age? Get real.

These are the same dudes who said she was over hyped, over managed. Now at just 20, she is showing remarkable maturity and looking more relaxed than we've ever seen her.

Commenting on posting a solid 66 the second day, she said, "I was just having fun out there today. I liked my playing partners. And I'm much happier in general."

Her cool on the run-up to the last nine holes showed she was more than a pretty face, more than a willowy 6 ft. tall beauty people love to look at. Sponsor heaven.

On the 18th, Wie's sand iron out of the bunker sticking it less than a foot from the pin, was pure class while her arm pump after sinking the putt, pure joy. Dressed in red with a smile that lit up the world, did she remind you of anyone?

So why is it people think things have to be done according to their own time table. Give her a break. When she was just 16 playing in the Men's Public Links, she astounded everyone by making it to the quarterfinals before being eliminated. Had she won that, she would have been on her way to the Masters.

Since then she's turned professional, achieved 8 top 10 finishes, graduated from high school, entered Stanford University and drives an average distance of 301 yards.

Her solid performance on the Solheim Cup team winning all her matches obviously helped her find her momentum as did some plain old hard work with her coaches. On top of this, she was playing with a bum ankle.

I shudder to think what I had accomplished by the time I was stumbling into my 20th year.

What were you doing when you hit 20?

Were you earning $220,000 in one shot? Had you come close to socking away $1 million? Were you even thinking of balancing a career with history and math classes?

All this for a young women who, had she won in her home state of Hawaii, would have been too young to drink one of the victory beers Creamer and Pressel splashed all over her.

Watching the LPGA just got a lot more interesting. That can translate to bigger bucks. The "Big Wiesy" has star power.

Click here to leave a comment for Katharine Dyson.