MICHELLE WIE ~ 2018

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"Michelle Wie, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Sloane Stephens, and Becca Longo on Achieving Their Dreams in Sports
And how they're changing their sports for good."

Michelle's Interview:

"At 6 feet, Michelle Wie has the sharpest, most graceful swing in all of women’s golf. Her precision is every player’s dream. At 10, she became the youngest player to qualify for the U.S. Golf Association's Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship, and in 2014, she went on to win the U.S. Women’s Open. But all of her success hasn’t stopped her from fighting, either."

Teen Vogue: What do you love most about the game?

"Michelle Wie: Golf has given me an incredible platform to serve as a role model. I take that really seriously, as I know that aspiring athletes are looking up to me. The game of golf presents a new challenge on every shot. I love to work my way around the golf course and try to master each one."

TV: Recently, the Ladies Professional Golf Association established a new dress code — banning leggings, among other things — which you spoke out against. Why do you feel it’s important to make your voice heard?

"MW: I think it’s possible to be stylish and athletic at the same time. Trends in athletic clothing continue to evolve, and it’s exciting to be part of that transformation. We respect the rules and traditions in golf, but we also feel it’s important to be confident and comfortable, and to show women and girls that it’s perfectly normal to look great and be athletic."

TV: Have you ever experienced a situation or faced an obstacle that a white man might not have had to go through?

"MW: There were times I didn’t feel comfortable walking into clubhouses because I was a woman, and Asian. It felt like people looked at me differently, and I had to prove my worth every time I stepped onto the course. I would have men ask me how I outdrove them because clearly they were “stronger than me.” People also seemed shocked that I could speak English, even though I’m an American born in Hawaii. I would always get asked where I was from, and when I answered, “Hawaii,” they would ask once more, “No, where are you from?” — as if they were looking for me to answer “Korea.”

TV: What advice would you give to readers about navigating losses and gracefully accepting the wins?

"MW: The thing about golf is that even the No. 1 player in the world only wins a couple times per year. So much of golf is mental, and you have to learn to get over bad shots and to move on from a tough hole or a bad tournament. It’s important to train your mind to forget negativity and embrace the next opportunity."



Link to article at Teen Vogue:
www.teenvogue.com/story/michelle-wie-ibtihaj-muhammad-sloane-stephens-becca-longo-achieving-dreams-sports

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Michelle Wie ~ 2018

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Wie's goal to reach goals: Just. Stay. Healthy.

By Randall Mell January 23, 2018, 10:30 am


Michelle Wie’s player bio should come with medical charts.

Her caddie would be well served if he could read X-rays as well as he reads greens.

Remarkably, Wie will begin her 13th full season as a pro when she tees it up Thursday in the LPGA’s season opener at the Pure Silk Bahamas Classic.


Wie is only 28, but on some days, she must feel like she’s going on 40.


It isn’t the years, it’s the mileage. Her body has too often been like an exotic sports car, a sleek and powerful machine capable of thrilling rides ... when it isn’t sitting it in the shop for weeks for repairs. There’s been one breakdown after another, spoiling her rides.

That’s why one burning desire trumps all others for Wie as she begins this new year.

“Being healthy, staying healthy, it’s my No. 1 priority,” Wie told GolfChannel.com. “I hired private physios at the end of last year, to work on my body. I’ve been working with my doctors in New York, and they’ve been doing a great job of getting me to a place where I’m pain free.

“For the most part, I’m feeling pretty good and pretty healthy. I’ve got little aches and pains from hitting so many balls over the years, but I’m really excited about starting this year. I feel really driven this year. I just want to be healthy so I can build some momentum and be able to play at 100 percent.”

Wie would love to see what she can do in an injury-free, illness-free year after all the promising work she put into rebuilding her game last year. She seemed on the brink of something special again.

“We worked last week, and Michelle looked really, really good,” said David Leadbetter, her swing coach. “It’s quite impressive the way she’s hitting the ball. She is hitting it long and feeling good about her game. So, the main goal really is to see if she can go injury free.”

After winning twice in 2014, including the U.S. Women’s Open, Wie battled through a troublesome finger injury in the second half of that year. Hip, knee and ankle injuries followed the next year. She didn’t just lose all her good momentum. She lost the swing she grooved.

Wie rebuilt it all last year, turning her draw into a dependable fade that allowed her to play more aggressively again. She loved being able to go hard at the ball again, without fearing where it might go. The confidence from that filtered into every part of her game. She started hitting more drivers again.

And Wie found yet another eccentric but effective putting method, abandoning her table-top putting stance for a rotating trio of grips (conventional, left-hand low and claw). She would use them all in a single round. It was weird science, but it worked as she moved to a more classic, upright stance.

“It’s not pretty, but it’s working,” Stacy Lewis said after playing with Wie at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship last summer.

Wie said she’s going back and forth between conventional and left-hand low now.

“I can’t promise I’ll stay the same way all year,” Wie said. “But even with different grips, I stayed with the same putting philosophy all year. I want to keep doing that.”

Leadbetter calls Wie a rebel in her approach to the game. She’s a power player, but she carried a 9-wood and 11-wood last year. She says the 11-wood will be back in her bag this week. Her unorthodox ways go beyond technique, strategy and equipment. She’ll be sporting pink hair come Thursday.

“She has never been orthodox,” Leadbetter said. “She doesn’t like to conform. She’s always liked to buck the system in some way.”

Wie looked as if she were poised to make a run at her fifth career title last season. She logged six finishes of fourth place or better the first half of the year. She contended at the ANA Inspiration, the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship and the Ricoh Women’s British Open.

And then a neck spasm knocked her out of the U.S. Women’s Open.

And then emergency appendectomy surgery knocked her out for six weeks at summer’s end. It kept her from playing the year’s final major, the Evian Championship.

“I can’t list all the injuries Michelle has had in her career,” Leadbetter said. “I don’t think there is one joint or bone in her body that hasn’t had some sort of injury or issue.”

Over the last three seasons alone, Wie has played through bursitis in her left hip, a bone spur in her left foot and inflammation in her left knee. She has battled neck spasms and back spasms. There have been platelet rich plasma injections to aid healing, and there have been too many cortisone injections for her liking.

There also have been ongoing issues in both wrists.

In fact, Wie, who broke two bones in her left wrist early in her career, is dealing with arthritic issues in both wrists of late. She underwent collagen injections this off season to try to be more pain free.

“I’ve had to pull back the last couple years, restrict the number of balls I hit, not practice as much as I would like, but I was able to put in a lot of work this offseason,” Wie said. “I’m excited about this year, but I’ve been smart about things.”

Leadbetter says he has been focusing on injury prevention when working with Wie. He worries about the stress that all the torque she creates can have on her body, with her powerful coil and the way she sometimes likes to hold off shots with her finish. His work, sometimes, is pulling her back from the tinkering she loves to do.

“Everything we do with her swing now is to help prevent injury,” he said.

Leadbetter relishes seeing what’s possible in 2018 if there are no setbacks.

“Michelle would be the first to admit she hasn’t reached anywhere near her potential,” Leadbetter said. “We all know what she is capable of. We’ve had fleeting glimpses. Now, it’s a matter of, ‘OK, let’s see if we can really fulfill the potential she’s had from a very young age.’

“She’s really enthusiastic about this year. She can’t wait to get back in the mix.”

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Michelle Wie - and the 2018 HSBC in Singapore

February 27, 2018 HSBC Media

Michelle Wie’s inclusion in last year’s tournament came courtesy of an invitation from tournament sponsor HSBC but from day one, the Hawaiian returned the compliment in spades.

Wie’s name was at the top of the leader board after rounds one and three as she quickly got to grips with the new course. But dropped putts on the last round gave Olympic Champion Inbee Park an opening and the formidable putter never looked back as she went on to claim the trophy for the second time.

For Wie there’s a sense of unfinished business in Singapore. Confirming her participation in this year’s tournament, Wie said, “I put myself in a great position last year but just wasn’t able to carry that through into the final round. But overall, I played great, was really happy with my game and it set me up well for the season ahead. So yes, a bit of unfinished business in Singapore perhaps. It’s a great tournament and the new course really suits my game, so looking forward to getting back out there and giving it another shot.”

Michelle Wie's scores for the 2017 HSBC Women's World Championship:

4T Michelle Wie 66 - 69 - 67 - 72 274 -14 $65,589.00

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One For The History Books ~ 2018

"Michelle Wie of the United States celebrates with the winner's trophy after the final round of the HSBC Women's World Championship at Sentosa Golf Club on March 4, 2018 in Singapore"

What started as a pursuit of history ended up as a finish for the history books. Nelly Korda made a valiant effort to join her sister Jessica in becoming only the second siblings to win on the LPGA but instead Michelle Wie singed the Sentosa Golf Club Tanjong Course in Singapore with a closing-round 65 on Sunday to win the HSBC Women’s World Championship by one stroke over Korda, Danielle Kang, Brooke Henderson and Jenny Shin.

Wie, playing a hole in front of Korda, Kang and Henderson and a hole behind Shin, stroked a 35-foot birdie putt from the fringe that caught the low lip and curled in to get her fifth LPGA victory and first since the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open, 1,365 days ago. Kang’s 20-footer to tie Wie missed then Korda left an 8-footer a tad low, giving Wie a win for which she had waited a long time.

Shin, who matched Wie’s closing 65, bogeyed the last hole to open the door for her challengers.

“It was crazy,” Wie said as she accepted the winner’s trophy. “I don’t know what’s going on right now. I’m so proud of me, my caddie and my entire team. HSBC always has a world-class event. This means a lot to me.”

The victory was huge not just for Wie but for the LPGA. There is no other name in golf this side of Tiger Woods and none in women’s golf since Nancy Lopez that moves the needle as much as Michelle. Sixteen years after she played her first LPGA event and nine years after she joined the tour, the 28-year-old Wie may be poised to have the kind of season everyone has long expected.

Truly, the biggest key for Wie to being able to build on this early success is to stay healthy. Injury and illness has tripped her up in the past and even in Singapore she played with parts of her body shrouded in medical tape.

Starting Sunday five strokes behind Nelly Korda, trailing Kang by four and two back of Henderson and Minjee Lee, Wie had a lot of ground to make up. But she went out in 33 and closed with a 32 in a flawless bogey-free performance.

After a hiccup of a 73 on Friday in which she used 33 putts, Wie closed with a 66 and a 65, needing only 51 putts on the weekend. Truly, in addition to her health, the vitality of her putter has always been an issue for Michelle. This win could signal good things to come for her.

This was a tournament not lost by anyone but rather won by Wie. Of all the near misses, Shin likely went to sleep with the greatest regrets as she bogeyed the final hole of her 65 to finish one back. Henderson closed with a 67, Kang with a 70 and Korda with a 71.

Korda, whose 25-year-old sister Jessica won her fifth LPGA event last week at the Honda LPGA Thailand, was looking for her first tour triumph, which would have added some interesting fodder to LPGA folk lore.

The history of sisters in the LPGA is unusual, going back to the founding of the tour in 1950 when Alice Bauer and Marlene Bauer Hagge were among the 13 women who started the organization. Since that time, eight sisters combinations have played on tour and only one – Annika, with 72 wins, and Charlotta Sorenstam, with one – both reached the winner’s circle.

In what would have been a coincidental twist, Nelly would have won a week after Jessica won the Honda LPGA Thailand, matching what the Sorenstams accomplished in 2000 when Annika won in Tucson and Charlotta backed her up in Phoenix the next week.

Marlene Hagge won 26 times while Alice never broke through. Donna Caponi won 24 LPGA events and Janet none; Danielle Ammaccapane won seven times and Dina none; Ariya Jutanugarn has five wins while Moriya has yet to win; neither Aree nor Naree Song have won and neither have Numa or Russy Gulyanamitta.

But you certainly left the HSBC feeling it is only a matter of time until Nelly joins Jessica in the winner’s circle. The lightning delays that interrupted the HSBC were only part of the electricity that sparked the tour’s returns to the United States at the Bank of Hope Founders Cup in Phoenix. This victory by Michelle Wie only adds to the already hot start to the LPGA season.


Link to article:
www.lpga.com/news/2018-one-for-the-history-books-ron-sirak-hsbc

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