Michelle's Frustration

[bobawiefan]

Hello Wie Nation:

I have no comment...other than....Michelle has not tweeted since 21 Feb...
Sports Illustrated
Rumors: Wie apologizes for cursing at event
February 29, 2012
Truth & Rumors: Michelle Wie apologizes for cursing at event
Michelle Wie apologized for her on-course behavior during the final round of the HSBC Women's Champions LPGA event in Singapore last week, according to Spencer Robinson of the Asia Pacific Golf Group.
To the embarrassment of dozens of men, women and children gathered around the tee-box at the Tanah Merah Country Club, Wie slammed her hybrid club into the ground after watching the shot veer way right. She then screamed out a four-letter expletive.
As she strode off the tee ahead of her playing partners Christina Kim and Singaporean Koh Sock Hwee, barely under her breath Wie muttered ‘f ___ing idiot’.
Following her round, Wie was contrite. She said: “I absolutely apologise for that. It’s unacceptable behaviour. Sometimes it’s just really frustrating and I was at the point where everything kind of boiled up. But you know, obviously I apologise. It was unacceptable.”
Wie finished the tournament 59th in a 60-woman field, shooing 22-over

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bobawiefan

[wowwie1]

Wow ... wie ...

She must have had the entire week crash down on her at that point. However, there is no excuse for this with kids around.

I had always hoped that Michelle would be a shining example to young people.

I fear that there is something wrong either with her mental make up or her swing at this point. There has been tons of instruction. I think it may be mental.

Does she have a sports psychologist?
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[svenm]

Is this true?

Who did she refer to with ‘f ___ing idiot’ (if she really said that, which seems hard to believe)?

[bobawiefan]

Hello Wie Nation:

Michelle has broken radio silence….

Michelle Wieþ@themichellewie
I think saying that last week was a tough week for me would be a HUGE understatement. Sometimes you need a bad week in order to improve...
Michelle Wieþ@themichellewie
I have 3 weeks to work on my game before @lpgakiaclassic! Lot of things to work on but im excited! #makeitcount

According to Michelle’s web site, Michelle is schelued to play the RR Donnelley:
Mar 15-18 RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup Phoenix, AZ

Her web site has just updated?

But, according to her tweet, her next tournament will be the Kia Classic....Mar 22-25....
I, personally, am glad…Get these college finals over and done with. And then, then, she can focus only on golf and play some good golf.

Her finals are the week of Mar. 19-23

Got to love wie golf

bobawiefan

[boolaboss]

The following story should shred somw light on what happened in Singapore......It has pretty good info that should be important to us Michelle fans........


Michelle Wie Looks Forward To Life As Full-Time Golfer


By Lewine Mair
February 27, 2012


SINGAPORE - I Make no mistake, however down in the mouth Michelle Wie may have
looked during her opening 79 and 81 in last week's HSBC Women's Champions, the
player loves her golf.

She cannot wait till March, the month she graduates from Stanford and becomes a
full-timer on the LPGA Tour. As far as she is concerned, she has doubled as
student and professional golfer for long enough – four-and-a-half years to be
precise.

"It's been tough," says the 22-year-old Wie, whose graduation ceremony coincides
with the men's U.S. Open. "At the moment, I work out first thing in the morning,
I go to class and then I practise. It's helped that I'm good at time-management
and that I'm a speed-reader, but I have to cram everything in. I get tired.

"Once I've finished with my exams, I'll be able to get the extra rest I need and
I can practise for longer."

All of which explains why she is not anticipating any kind of void when her
Stanford days are over.

"I've done everything I've wanted, I've had this growth time," she says. "My
friends are all going into jobs and, though golf doesn't feel like a job at the
moment, I think it will once I've graduated. I'm not a kid anymore. I'm
embarking on a profession."

Wie does not feel a shred of envy for those among the more recent recruits to
the LPGA who have been fast-tracked on to the Tour and are playing full-time at
18. Some will have come straight from high school, others from a period of
home-schooling.

"I know that what suits one child will not necessarily suit another but I'm a
huge advocate for going to school," says Wie. "Everyone should experience it.

"Personally, I loved my schooldays. You get to experience things that you
wouldn't otherwise experience. Also, being an only child, I wouldn't have had
any social contact without it. Because my parents speak Korean at home, I
couldn't speak English when I went and I was shy.

"Of course, there were things I didn't like. For a while, I was bullied because
I was bigger than the others. But you learn how to cope and it's good that you
learn."

As the daughter of academic parents, Wie was always going to carry on to
university. She was "thinking Stanford" from her early teens, with her father,
BJ, predicting even then that she would stay the course rather than put in a
token two years.

At university, as at school, Michelle revelled in the company of her peers: "You
might be p****d off with the fact that you have an exam the next day, but you're
all p****d off together, which makes it so much better."

At the same time, she enjoyed sharing evening meals with friends and having
"lots of normal conversations away from golf."

Her major was in communications, with the sociology side of the subject
interesting her most: "Things like how the Internet is changing the world. That
and content analysis of newspapers and magazines."

Her final project is one on gender stereotyping and the role played by
children's toys. "Girls get dolls and play at being nurses; boys have their
action toys and are encouraged to explore. Without your knowing it, the toys you
get make you think a certain way."

Michelle was a great one for Barbie dolls before moving into a rather less
"girly" world via her golf clubs.

She was, of course, no more than 14 when she played in the men's Sony Open and
was applauded into the clubhouse when she only missed making the half-way cut by
one.
Gender-neutral toys may, as Wie says, be more in vogue today, but men's and
women's professional golf remain two very separate entities.

Not too long after that Sony Open, male and female professionals alike started
to feel uncomfortable with Wie's sorties into the men's arena. Though both sexes
claimed they had her best interests at heart – something which, in fairness,
became more plausible as Wie missed a string of cuts – there was always more to
it than that.

The LPGA players, for example, did not appreciate the fact that their events
scarcely got a mention in a week when Wie was on the PGA Tour.

Michelle has never said that she will not play in another men's event. For now,
though, she will concentrate on the LPGA Tour where she already has two wins to
her name.

As she mentioned in Singapore, she has her heart set on becoming the No. 1 ahead
of Yani Tseng. "Everyone," she said wistfully, "wants to be the No.1 but,
unfortunately, there can only be one of them."

Her putting gave her problems in Singapore, with her current putter – she keeps
changing implements – doing nothing to make her look comfortable. The rest of
her game, though, is in good shape, as indeed is the player herself – something
she puts down to her new gluten-free diet.

She embarked on it of her own accord. Partly because her digestive system has
been playing up for years and partly because of how it worked for Novak
Djokovic.

"He went straight to No 1," she said with a le.