Wie's woes continue

[boolaboss]

From GolfWeek magazine of June 15th.........

Michelle Wie shot 2-over 74 in the opening round of the Wegmans LPGA Championship with 13 clubs in her bag. Minutes before Wie was set to tee off, the head of her 3-wood cracked on the range. She had planned on hitting 3-wood off at least 5 tees and using it to attack the par 5s at Locust Hill Country Club. With no back up on hand, she relied on her 2-hybrid.

With a complete set Friday, Wie struggled mighyily. She posted eight bogeys and a double bogey in her 2nd round and shot 82. Her mindset of swinging freely with the attitude of 'not really giving a damn' didn't pan out.

Wie has missed six cpnsecutive cuts in stroke-play events - five on LPGA and one on the JLPGA.

"I don't like the way she's swinging at it," said Cristie Kerr, who paired with Wie the first 2 rounds."it's just way too technical. Trying to be way too perfect. David Leadbetter is a great teacher, but whatever path they're on. I just don't like it."

........Boola Boss

[bobawiefan]

Hello Wie Nation:

Michelle’s Putting Woe’s Continue:

After this:
Cut…..75-71-146.…+4

We have this:


And after that, we have this:

Jeehae Leeþ@jeehaeda
Mass #froyo graveyard #itwasntme

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My guess…It’s Michelle and company

Got to love wie golf

bobawiefan

[boolaboss]

Bob, that photo of her looking down was taken at the 9th hole (her last) on Friday as she waited to take her last putt, knowing she had no chance to make the cut........

............Boola Boss

[Deleted]

Just some thoughts about the Ladies game and Michelle.
Michelle's woes in golf continue but there have been some bright spots. Lately, some other players are getting noticed for poor play and their names getting more mention than Michelle's. This far into the season and no wins under their belt I would think Michelle likes getting the heat off her back.

Yani is in a slump that seems to be mystifing everyone and she takes the spotlight for missing cuts and few top tens.
Other "top players" on the LPGA have not won a tournament in two years, some not evan this year.

I think Michelle will turn the corner soon and get all the parts of her game together. She always says she wouldn't change a thing, that her experiences make her what she is. She's a great Ambassador for golf, her sponsors, and a favorite with the golf public.

[bobawiefan]

Leadbetter: Wie's performance remains a 'mystery'
By Will Gray
Oct 19, 2012 10:53 AM ET

In an interview this morning with Golf Channel's "Morning Drive," long-time swing coach David Leadbetter shared some insight on the issues that may be plaguing one of his most famous pupils, Michelle Wie.
"She's a little bit of a mystery the last year or so," explained Leadbetter, who has worked with Wie for several years. "I think she's just now come to terms with the fact that she's playing golf full time."
The 23-year-old Wie has struggled this season, recording only one top-10 finish in 19 starts while missing the cut 10 times. Her 73.86 scoring average for 2012 ranks her 110th on the LPGA Tour, and she is currently outside the top 100 in greens in regulation (125th), putts per GIR (135th) and driving accuracy (144th). Wie has broken 70 only six times in 51 competitive rounds this year.
"She just hasn't played well the last 18 months," Leadbetter continued. "We all expected her to take the Tour by the scruff of the neck."
While the future remains bright for the recent Stanford graduate, Leadbetter indicates that the keys to her success moving forward are likely internal.
"She still has a lot of time ahead of her. I think a lot of it depends on what she wants," he noted. "Any future success that she will have in her career depends on her ability to believe in herself and her desire to succeed at the highest levels of the game of golf."

Link to article:
www.golfchannel.com/news/golftalkcentral/leadbetter-wie-remains-a-mystery/?hj=xfs

[chargepads]

It is easy to blame Leadbetter, but then you know the definition of insanity is right? Maybe a change in teacher is called for.

[davidy48]

It's not often that I agree with Leadsgetworse, but on this occasion I think he's spot on. Firstly it's a big change to playing fulltime, and the life of a top sports person can often be a tedious daily grind and not much fun, especially now she doesn't have the refuge of geting back to her college friends and life outside golf. Maybe she's only now realising/questioning if this is really how she wants to spend the rest of her life ?

She's said before that she couldn't see herself playing past 30 - she has many other interests that I'm sure she'd like to pursue. Plus she's bound to be feeling more and more independent of her parents and wanting to make her own life, probably involving getting married, having children and settling down. All around her on the LPGA she sees dedicated and talented players completely focussed on their golf and nothing else, and she must realise that regardless of her undoubted talent she has to match that committment otherwise she's wasting her time.

Add in her mental problems with the putter and I think she's at a big crossroads. If she doesn't see a marked improvement in her results in 2013 I think she'll quit to do other things. I really really hope not, but that's the way I see it going. She's have had enough of meeting her obligations to her parents and her sponsors and will want to do her own thing. I'm sure with her Stanford degree and fame a lot of attractive doors would be open for her.

[bobawiefan]

Wie's sluggish season, 81 at CME leaves little hope
By Damon Hack
Nov 15, 2012 4:20 PM ET
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A few years ago, if you had said a young American would break the long drought without a homegrown LPGA Rolex Player of the Year, I would have said, 'Of course Michelle Wie will.'
And then she will win it again, and then she will win it again.
That’s how big the expectations were. That’s how big her game was.
Placing aside all the hype and Nike swoosh money, Michelle Wie could flat out hit a golf ball. It was silly, really, how good she was.
“Posture, the ball position, her grip, everything is just perfect,” Ernie Els said of a 14-year-old Wie back at the Sony Open in 2004. “From there, she makes a nice move and brings the club down in front of her. All of the talent in the world. It’s just a matter of time before she hits her stride and then the golfing world will really have to watch out then.”
Last week on Golf Channel’s "Morning Drive," Annika Sorenstam was asked if she once believed Wie was the biggest threat to her dominance.
“Yes, I thought so,” Sorenstam said. “It was just a matter of time.”
On Thursday, in the first round of the LPGA’s season-ending CME Group Titleholders, Wie shot a nine-over-par 81, a shocking score for a player who remains one of golf’s biggest names and one of its biggest conundrums.
Wie had two birdies, nine pars, four bogeys, two doubles and one triple. After one round, she is 15 shots out of the lead.
Even the best golfers in the world have rough patches, but Wie’s 2012 season has been one long slog. She has one top 10 in 22 starts. She’s missed 10 cuts.
“It is her putter and her mental ability on the golf course,” Judy Rankin said Thursday on the Golf Channel broadcast. “My hope – it’s many people’s hope – is this season and the hard times she’s had as a very young player aren’t scars that won’t heal.”
You can’t talk about the 23-year-old Wie without revisiting her teenage years, when the game looked so easy and so natural. She missed the cut against the men at the Sony Open by one shot at age 14. Two years later, she missed qualifying for the 2006 U.S. Open at Winged Foot by five shots. She was an icon before she could drive a car. There were two names in golf: Tiger Woods and Michelle Wie.
“Michelle Wie didn’t make the United States Open, but someday she will,” wrote Dave Anderson in the New York Times. “But next year at 17 or the year after at 18 or the year after that at 19, golf’s Wonder Teen will make enough birdie putts in sectional qualifying and, whether the male chauvinists like it or not, she will have earned the right to be the first woman in golf’s most prestigious tournament.”
I was with Anderson at that day’s sectional qualifying at Canoe Brook in Summit, N.J., and I was completely on board.
Wie was going to dominate the women’s game.
It hasn’t happened, of course, and we’re all left to guess whether it’s burnout or overcoaching or something different altogether.
Wie attended Stanford University and says she loved her time there. She went to football games, started a blog, and fit in on a campus of high achievers.
Even through her struggles on the course, she appears happy and well-rounded. She pokes fun at herself on Twitter, posts dessert recipes on the Internet and is always game to lend a fashion tip.
The golf world has found new prodigies to embrace, players like Lexi Thompson and Lydia Ko, and surely more are coming.
Wie once stood alone. Everyone saw the potential for greatness.
The question is, can she still go out and reclaim it?

Link:
www.golfchannel.com/news/damon-hack/wie-potential-for-greatness-can-she-reclaim-it/

[bobawiefan]

Link to Michelle’s new putting stance on the golf channel
Michelle Wie: A new stance
www.golfchannel.com/media/golf-central-thursday-feature-2/

[bobawiefan]

Wie's wake-up call
American superstar Michelle Wie on having a bad year on the course but her best off it
By Jaydip Sengupta Deputy Editor-Sports Published: 23:11 December 12, 2012

desert swing: Wie plays a shot on the 18th hole during the second round of the 2012 Omega Dubai Ladies Masters ©Xpress/ Francois Nel
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Dubai

You’d think the most glamorous and sought after lady in world golf would only be worried about filling up her coffers and her trophy cabinet. Not so for Michelle Wie. The 23-year-old, known as the Tiger Woods of women’s golf for her sheer star power and endorsement value, considers 2012 her best year despite just a single top-10 finish and in an exclusive interview to XPRESS also reveals why it worries her when she is unable to perform even as her brand value soars.
“My single biggest goal this year was to complete my graduation from Stanford University, so doing it was the best thing that could have happened this year,” the Korean-American pin-up said in an exclusive interview.
“This university means so much to me given my grandfather used to teach there and my uncles and cousins studied there before me. As a kid I used to go to the campus frequently, so graduating from such a prestigious university is definitely the biggest achievement of my career so far.”

The Omega brand ambassador became the youngest player to qualify for a USGA amateur championship at 10 and also became the youngest winner of the US Women’s Amateur Public Links and the youngest to qualify for an LPGA Tour event. She turned professional shortly before her 16th birthday in 2005, accompanied by an enormous amount of publicity and endorsements that included sponsorship contracts with Nike and Sony reportedly worth more than $10 million per year.
“It really bothers me when I don’t perform to my expectations. I mean I am the face of so many products so my performance should be up there. I am not so bothered about critics, but I would like to live up to my fans’ expectations,” she said.
Wie’s last tournament victory came way back in 2010 when she won the 2010 CN Canadian Women’s Open, her second win on the LPGA Tour after the Lorena Ochoa Invitational the previous year and she admits golf-wise this has been her worst year.
“I had a very bad year. Can blame it on so many things, but I am not going to dwell on them. Actually I got off to a bad start, had a couple of swing changes midway and my confidence took a nosedive. Later part of the year I started getting it back. I am going to work as hard as I can for next year as if I am starting from Ground Zero. But I really needed this wake-up call,” she said.
Incidentally, Wie almost missed the Omega Dubai Ladies Masters due to a bout of food poisoning but refused to blame it for her below-par performance here. “True, I was seeing three of everything on the first day, but that was not the reason for my performance. Actually I wasn’t prepared for this event,” she said.
So, what is she aiming for, come 2013?
“With studies out of the way, I will finally get free time after end of season to rest and practice. I hope to get my focus back. My targets of course remain the same, winning a Major and getting to No. 1,” she said.

XXXXX: Michelle Wie, an American professional golfer during an interview, at the Emirates Golf Club, Dubai. xpress/ ASGHAR KHAN


Link to article:
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[bobawiefan]

Hello Wie Nation:

Dec 7, 2012 18:13:16 GMT -5 bobawiefan said:

Link to Michelle’s new putting stance on the golf channel
Michelle Wie: A new stance
www.golfchannel.com/media/golf-central-thursday-feature-2/

I don't know what happen to the video on Michelle's new stance...The Link goes nowhere
"Page not Found"
It seems the golf channel has pulled the video...I can't find it anywhere???

got to love wie golf

bobawiefan

[bobawiefan]

22 Jan Beth Ann Baldry‏@golfweek_Baldry
Had a nice chat with @themichellewie over the weekend. Seems to be in a very good place. On putting: "Really trying to make it my own now."

22 Jan Kevin Markham‏@kevinmarkham
@golfweek_Baldry @themichellewie As a golfer with a putting disability may I enquire what "Really trying to make it my own now." means? Thx

22 Jan Luis Hernández‏@lahggrandpa
@golfweek_Baldry Good thing she didn't bring the "guacamole" garbage answer.

22 Jan Beth Ann Baldry‏@golfweek_Baldry
@kevinmarkham Wie has talked to a lot of instructors over years. Trying to feel it now. Realizing it's more about confidence than technique

22 jan Kevin Markham‏@kevinmarkham
@golfweek_Baldry All for feel, all for confidence... shame it's always up 1 week and down for the next 4. A curse I could do without.