Preview HSBC Singapore 2012

[bobawiefan]

Hello Wie Nation:

I’ve learned with Wie golf that last year’s tournament performances has no reflection on this year’s tournament performances…so far anyway…
I’ve learned that last week’s tournament performance has no reflection on this week’s tournament…I could be wrong…
But, then…this is part of the excitement of Wie golf…waiting for the return of Michelle’s excellent golf game, (the Robert E Lee), as I call her golf game…We know she has an excellent golf game…we’re just waiting for it to reappear….

2010...HSBC…T10...72-73-69-70...282...-4.…6 strokes behind winner Ai Miyazato at -10...
2011...HSBC…T40...73-71-77-75...296..+8.…21 strokes behind winner Carrie Webb…
Even after 2 rounds…
For Michelle, a disaster in rounds 3&4 last year..
Par 4’s gave her fits.

HSBC Women’s Champion.
Tanah Merah Country Club, Garden Course…Singapore.
72 Holes…Par 72.….6,547 yds.
T40.…..73-71-77-75...296.…..+8.
48 Pars…08 Birdies…16 Bogeys.
Par 3’s….14 Pars….00 Birdies….02 Bogeys
Par 4’s….24 Pars….05 Birdies….11 Bogeys.
Par 5’s….10 Pars….03 Birdies….03 Bogeys.
Rd. by Rd. Scoring Stats.
Rd1.…+1.…13 Pars….02 Birdies….03 Bogeys.
Rd2.….-1.…13 Pars….03 Birdies….02 Bogeys.
Rd3.…+5.…11 Pars….01 Birdies….06 Bogeys.
Rd4.…+3.…14 Pars….02 Birdies….05 Bogeys.


HSBC Women's Champions TV schedule…
Feb 23 : GC 9:30-1:30 PM ET…6:30am-10:30am pst.
Feb 24 : GC 9:30-1:30 PM ET…6:30am-10:30am pst.
Feb 25 : GC 2:00-6:00 PM ET…11:00am-3:00pm pst.
Feb 26 : GC 2:00-6:00 PM ET…11:00am-2:00pm pst.
WOW….FOUR HOURS…. :oI really hope Michelle does really well…

Singapore weather forecast
Thru….60% rain, thunder and lighting.
Fri……60% rain, thunder and lighting.
Sat……40% rain, thunder and lighting.
Sun…..60% rain, thunder and lighting.

Remember…Singapore is 16 hours ahead of PST…and 19 hours ahead of EST….Get your entries in early for BoolaBoss’s contest…and may the best wie fan win… ;D ;D ;D

Will post pairing and tee times when they become available.

Got to love wie golf

bobawiefan

[bangkokbobby]

more pics on my blog: Yani Tseng, Michelle Wie, Suzann Pettersen and Defending Champion Karrie Webb “Say It With Flowers” To Kick Off 2012 HSBC Women’s Champion Fairways and Forehands

Michelle Wie, Suzann Pettersen, Yani Tseng and Karrie Webb


Four of the LPGA’s biggest stars, Yani Tseng, Michelle Wie, Suzann Pettersen and defending champion Karrie Webb kicked off the 2012 HSBC Women’s Champions by creating a world map with orchids and ribbons. The players also exchanged the Vanda Miss Joaquim Orchid, also known as the Singapore Orchid, with each other.



“The ribbons and orchids are the roadmap to one of the best weeks of the year for us! You will find the best players in the world – players from all over the world – challenging this week. This is only the fifth year for the event, but the winners have all been such great players and every tournament has been so good that it has quickly become a tournament that the top players particularly want to win! I know I certainly do!” – Yani Tseng



“There always seems to be a special connection when we launch this week. Last year I was connecting with my family roots by wearing a traditional Korean Hanbok. This year I’m connecting with my Hawaiian roots through flowers.” – Michelle Wie



“It’s not just a great tournament, it’s a great week. We get looked after very, very well. We stay in a wonderful hotel, there’s great hospitality and we play on a fabulous challenging golf course. On top of that, Singapore just does a great job of making us feel very, very welcome.” – Karrie Webb

[wowwie1]

Hard to think that she will contend here. Your observation about last year's rd 3 and 4, plus being 20 shots behind in Thailand. Don't feel confident yet. Hope I'm wrong.

[bobawiefan]

Hello Wie Nation:

As always…Excellent pictures BKB…

Michelle tees off with Paula Creamer, Ai Miyazato from the 1st tee, in 3rd group from the last group at 5:53 pm PST…8:53pm EST…Wed. evening, 22nd Feb…that’s in about a day and a half…
It looks like they will be repairing each round…
With four hours of TV coverage, we should see a lot of Michelle’s golf game in the first round…and hopefully the 2nd… 3rd and final round…that would be

Got to love wie golf

bobawiefan

[bangkokbobby]

lots more pics on my blog: LPGA Stars Talk To Press; Attend Players Reception Prior To 2012 HSBC Women’s Champions Fairways and Forehands

The Ladies of the LPGA


Many of the LPGA’s biggest stars attended the 2012 HSBC Women’s Champions Players Gala Photocall and some talked to the press. Yani Tseng, Michelle Wie, Morgan Pressel, Paula Creamer, Se Ri Pak and many others look absolutely breathtaking at the photocall. I also included some practice round pics.













I don't know if anybody would want to see this, but here is a tour of the Garden Course...

[bangkokbobby]

For those who have not seen these already...

[wiesyfan]

Here's an article about Michelle looking forward to graduating and growing up. I thought it was very interesting what she said in the Singapore pre-tournament press conference about that transition from student to golf as her job. I know she's been a professional for a while now, but while going to school it seems that she considered herself a student first and a golfer as something fun to do while in school. For me that why I'm looking forward to when she graduates and make that transition in her mind. We'll see how it goes...

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Wie Looks Forward To Life As Full-Time Golfer

by Lewine Mair | February 27, 2012
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SINGAPORE l 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 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, Wie 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.”
Wie 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.
Wie 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.

www.globalgolfpost.com/opinion/wie-looks-forward-to-life-as-full-time-golfer/

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I want her to be number 1 too!
Nice article and that sounds like the real Wie!

I'm looking forward to her trying out for the US Open again!

[wowwie1]

Huh?
Tee shot. She was last in this tournament. (excluding the local qualifier, hardly competition).

I am very worried about her mindset. According to the article, her putting remains a major issue.

I don't know why you'd want her to try and play an Open when she just came in last in a limited field event. How about she slowly build confidence, do well, climb leaderboards, replace Tseng as # 1?

Your post puzzles me.