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Wie's unorthodox approach paying dividends
By
Randall Mell
June 29, 2017, 6:00 pm
OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. – Michelle Wie is the rebel with a cause now.
“She has never been orthodox,” says David Leadbetter, her swing coach. “She doesn’t like to conform. She’s always liked to buck the system in some way.”
With a new putting style that borders on multiple personality disorder, with her quirky pre-shot routines and now her unusually configured golf bag, Wie may be the LPGA’s most unorthodox player.
Here’s the thing, though: It’s working.
Somehow, some wacky way, it’s turning her around.
“It’s not pretty,” said Stacy Lewis, who played alongside Wie. “But it is working.”
Wie’s 3-under-par 68 Thursday put her into early contention at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, just two shots behind Chella Choi, the early leader.
Wie is finding her game with a hodge-podge of inventive technique and strategies. In some ways, Leadbetter said, she’s actually finding herself in this unconventional approach.
“Michelle has always had a unique way of going about things,” Leadbetter said.
Think Lonzo Ball’s quirky shooting form, Hideo Nomo’s eccentric pitching delivery, Rick Barry’s unconventional granny-style free throws and Dick Fosbury’s flop. They are all Wie’s kind of athletes.
“I’m just like, `This feels right, and I go with it,’” Wie said.
Wie’s tabletop putting stance was the oddest in golf last year. While her new stance looks so much more fundamentally sound now, her use of multiple grips is weird science.
Or, given Wie’s love of painting, maybe weird art.
Wie used at least three different putting grips Thursday in her round of five birdies and two bogeys on a windswept Olympia Fields Country Club course playing difficult.
She putted with the claw, she putted left-hand low and she putted conventional.
There might have been a couple more she improvised.
“I don’t know,” Wie said. “Don’t try to figure it out. It will be really hard.”
Wie’s bag was also unusually configured for a big hitter. She also stuck an 11-wood in it before the round.
“I told her she has more head covers in her bag now than Mi Hyun Kim ever did,” Leadbetter cracked.
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By
Randall Mell
June 29, 2017, 6:00 pm
OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. – Michelle Wie is the rebel with a cause now.
“She has never been orthodox,” says David Leadbetter, her swing coach. “She doesn’t like to conform. She’s always liked to buck the system in some way.”
With a new putting style that borders on multiple personality disorder, with her quirky pre-shot routines and now her unusually configured golf bag, Wie may be the LPGA’s most unorthodox player.
Here’s the thing, though: It’s working.
Somehow, some wacky way, it’s turning her around.
“It’s not pretty,” said Stacy Lewis, who played alongside Wie. “But it is working.”
Wie’s 3-under-par 68 Thursday put her into early contention at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, just two shots behind Chella Choi, the early leader.
Wie is finding her game with a hodge-podge of inventive technique and strategies. In some ways, Leadbetter said, she’s actually finding herself in this unconventional approach.
“Michelle has always had a unique way of going about things,” Leadbetter said.
Think Lonzo Ball’s quirky shooting form, Hideo Nomo’s eccentric pitching delivery, Rick Barry’s unconventional granny-style free throws and Dick Fosbury’s flop. They are all Wie’s kind of athletes.
“I’m just like, `This feels right, and I go with it,’” Wie said.
Wie’s tabletop putting stance was the oddest in golf last year. While her new stance looks so much more fundamentally sound now, her use of multiple grips is weird science.
Or, given Wie’s love of painting, maybe weird art.
Wie used at least three different putting grips Thursday in her round of five birdies and two bogeys on a windswept Olympia Fields Country Club course playing difficult.
She putted with the claw, she putted left-hand low and she putted conventional.
There might have been a couple more she improvised.
“I don’t know,” Wie said. “Don’t try to figure it out. It will be really hard.”
Wie’s bag was also unusually configured for a big hitter. She also stuck an 11-wood in it before the round.
“I told her she has more head covers in her bag now than Mi Hyun Kim ever did,” Leadbetter cracked.
Link to the rest of the article...
www.golfchannel.com/news/randall-mell/wies-unorthodox-approach-paying-dividends