Meijer Lpga Classic Preview 2014

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Meijer LPGA Classic presented by Kraft…Aug 7-10

Race to the CME Globe: 500 points
Purse: $1,500,000
History: This is the first year for the event.
Format: 72 holes
The LPGA announced that the best players in women’s golf will head to Grand Rapids, Mich. for the first time in more than a decade to take part in the inaugural Meijer LPGA Classic, which will be held August 7-10, 2014 at Blythefield Country Club. The $1.5 million Meijer LPGA Classic will host a full-field of 144 players playing 72 holes of stroke play over four days of competition. The tournament will be the LPGA Tour’s first stop in Michigan since 2000 when the Oldsmobile Classic in East Lansing, Mich. ended its 9-year run. It will also mark the first annual golf event to take place in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula since 2009 when the PGA Tour last hosted the Buick Open in Grand Blanc.

Blythefield Country Club
Grand Rapids, MI
Par: 71
Yardage: 6,414

Link to Offical Site:
www.meijerlpgaclassic.com/

This is a private golf course…I could not find any hole descriptions??

Link to golf course Map:
meijerlpgaclassic.com/golf-course/

Link to Men’s Scorecard:
www.oobgolf.com/courses/scorecard.php?id=7942

Link to Scorecard and yardage?
www.golfcourseranking.com/coursescorecard/7942/5801%20Northland%20Dr/Belmont/Michigan/49306/616-363-1902/Blythefield_Country_Club.html
This scorecard has the blue and white tee’s par and yardage…
But, this scorecard has 5 par 3’s….8 par 4’s….and 5 par 5’s?
Unable to find a Lpga scorecard???
But, I assume they will have:
5 par 3’s
9 par 4’s
4 par 5’s
Par 71

First year tournament…No past performance by Michelle..

TV Times
Aug 7 - GC 5:00 PM-7:00 PM ET
Aug 8 - GC 5:00 PM-7:00 PM ET
Aug 9 - GC 5:00 PM-7:00 PM ET
Aug 10 - GC 5:00 PM-7:00 PM ET

Blythefield weather:

Thu Aug 7
High 82°…Low 57°
Mostly Sunny
Chance of rain: 10%
Wind: NNE at 6 mph
Fri Aug 8
High 82°…Low 58°
Mostly Sunny
Chance of rain: 0%
Wind: E at 6 mph
Sat Aug 9
High 83°…Low 59°
Mostly Sunny
Chance of rain: 10%
Wind: E at 7 mph
Sun Aug 10
High 85°…Low 60°
Sunny
Chance of rain: 10%
Wind: SSE at 7 mph

[wiefan]

Hi ya Bobawiefan....thanks for the info...keep up the GOOD WORK at this site....by the way,did you open up my PM to you....it was about my Keno Summary of my last trip...anyway...lemme know....Aloha....Go Wiesy go

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Meijer LPGA Classic Presented by Kraft Tuesday Notes and Interviews

Morgan Pressel celebrates a birdie on the eighth hole during the weather-delayed third round
of the Wegmans LPGA Championship at Locust Hill Country Club on June 9, 2013 in Pittsford, New York

Michelle Wie, Rolex Rankings No. 6
Morgan Pressel, Rolex Rankings No. 41
Lindsey McPherson & Grace Choi, Sponsor Invites

WIE ENJOYS HER WEEKS OFF

Michelle Wie was able to take advantage of a rare two week break during the season to take some time away from the game.
“One week I just took completely off,” Wie said. “I was a bit tired I think mentally and it was good just to put the clubs in the closet for a whole week. And I went to my friend’s wedding and this past week it was back to the grind. I got some really good work in, good workouts, some good practices, so I feel ready this week.”
Wie took some time for a GolfDigest photo shoot to showcase one of her new hobbies, fashion.
“Yeah, it’s just something that it’s a lot of fun doing. I’ve always wanted to kind of do maybe something in that, but yeah, the Golf Digest shoot was a lot of fun.”

Michelle Wie, Rolex Rankings No. 6

MODERATOR: I'm pleased to be joined in the media center by Michelle Wie here at the Meijer LPGA Classic presented by Kraft. Michelle, first time in Michigan for the LPGA Tour. What are your initial thoughts?
MICHELLE WIE: We're just so excited to be here. We were really excited when the Meijer Classic was added onto the schedule and my first time on this golf course, played 18 holes today, and it's in perfect shape. Golf course is great and we're all really excited to be here.
MODERATOR: You're coming off two weeks off. What did you do in your time off?
MICHELLE WIE: One week I just took completely off. I was a bit tired I think mentally and it was good just to put the clubs in the closet for a whole week. And I went to my friend's wedding and this past week it was back to the grind. I got some really good work in, good workouts, some good practices, so I feel ready this week.
MODERATOR: You mentioned your friend's wedding and you also had your Golf Digest shoot. Seems like you've been doing a lot more fashion things. Is that something you've kind of been getting into a little more?
MICHELLE WIE: Yeah, it's just something that it's a lot of fun doing. I've always wanted to kind of do maybe something in that, but yeah, the Golf Digest shoot was a lot of fun and my friend's wedding was awesome. We were in Sonoma, it was great to see all my friends again.
MODERATOR: We'll open it up for questions.
Q Michelle, what are your first impressions of Blythefield Country Club, what kind of challenge is this course?
MICHELLE WIE: It's great, you know, it's a pretty old school style golf course, big trees. My first impression, I was on the front nine and I was like, wait, I don't think we've played a par 4 yet. It goes par 5, par 4, par 3, par 5, par 3, par 5, par 3, and it's a lot of fun, you know. I think it changes things up a bit. The back nine you've got some really good tough long par 4s, the par 3s are challenging. You've got small greens out there. The course is in perfect shape. It's absolutely phenomenal how good this golf course is condition wise and the layout is a lot of fun as well.
Q Michelle, what areas will be worked out here this week in preparation for the major next weekend?
MICHELLE WIE: You know, I think everything, kind of the whole game has to be solid from tee to green, so I've just been really working on everything.
Q Michelle, with so many of the world's top players at this tournament, does this almost have a feel of like a major?
MICHELLE WIE: Yeah, you know, it's always exciting when you have a new tournament on the schedule. We're all really excited to be in Michigan especially with the LPGA Championship next week. It's a great golf course especially because it's challenging, it's tough, it's tree lined. It's a really good practice week for next week. And this week you've got everyone, everyone is in the field like you said, a lot of the top players. So it's definitely going to be a very exciting week.
Q Michelle, you say a perfect course. What's a perfect course in your mind?
MICHELLE WIE: You know, it's perfect in condition wise. The fairways are in perfect shape, the greens are rolling really nicely, the rough is up. I don't know what a perfect course is. It's just the conditions have to be great, which I think this golf course has for sure.
Q Michelle, this is kind of a tuneup obviously for a major. What did you do the week before the U.S. Open that helped prepare you for that?
MICHELLE WIE: You know, you don't really do anything in particular. I think you just kind of try to get your game as solid as possible. I think next week is going to be a pretty difficult golf course. I think this week is also a difficult golf course, so it helps. I'm not even going to think about next week. I'm not going to think about this as a practice week for next week. This week is a very important week, and I'm just going to focus on this week and I'm just going to do the best I can.
Q How important is that U.S. Open win for you personally?
MICHELLE WIE: You know, I think just growing up as an American golfer, I think the one tournament you really just want to win is the U.S. Open. I just dreamed of it so much growing up. If I only won one golf tournament my entire career, I would choose that one. So it's just pretty amazing that it happened this year, still feels really surreal to me. Yeah, it's just pretty cool.
Q You're experiencing more success this year than you've had. What is it that kind of flipped that switch for you?
MICHELLE WIE: You know, I've just been working on my game, Ledbetter and I, we've been talking a lot the last couple years. I didn't play well, but I was working on it and just kept at it, you know, just didn't really change anything. And a Ledbetter kind of said, you know, sometimes change happens over a day, sometimes it happens over a couple years, and I was probably on the couple year path. I didn't really change anything major for this year, just kept working on what I was working on and that's what I want to do, I just want to keep getting better a little bit, a little bit every day.
Q Michelle, on that, the commentators in the U.S. Open were impressed press with your on course attitude particularly in that last round where you seemed relaxed, even joking with your caddie, I think, on 16. Has your on course attitude evolved over the last year too in terms of being more relaxed in the heat of competition?
MICHELLE WIE: Yeah, I think that kind of comes with maturity, I think, and kind of experience. It's just you have to really realize it's just a game in the end. Just because you miss a putt doesn't mean you're going to die or your life is going to end. So kind of taking on the mentality where it's a challenge, and you kind of have to really enjoy it. I think it really helps that my caddie is a really good friend of mine, so we go out there, we do not talk about golf at all. We just talk about other stuff. Yeah, and he really helped me to keep me calm on the last day, but my caddie, it doesn't matter if I make an eagle or double bogey or triple bogey, it just doesn't phase him. He's the same either way. So I just kind of played.
Q You made a lot of media stops after the win in the U.S. Open, lots after attention. How has your life changed since then?
MICHELLE WIE: I get recognized a lot more, which is crazy, but it is a lot of fun. It was really cool that I kind of got to kind of bask in it for a little bit, but still it's super surreal. I kind of want to go back to just concentrating on my golf for a little bit and just keep trying to improve a little bit here and there. But, yeah, I just want to keep enjoying the game and keep having fun, you know. Just that one tournament doesn't change anything for me. I feel extremely lucky. The trophy arrived at my house and it's really cool to walk past it every day but, yeah, it makes me kind of hungry for more, makes me kind of want to do it again and again. So just going to go have fun.
Q You're fairly active in social media. Coming into a tournament week seeing how a lot of the players use Twitter and Facebook to interact with their fans and each other a lot, how much of a role does that play in your daily week on your phone?
MICHELLE WIE: I think that just being a 20‑something female, I think we all just love social media. I love taking pictures and I like interacting with my fans. I think it just, it's a cool way for me to interact with people just straight on, not through media, not through the eyes of a reporter, but just from me. So I think it's a really cool opportunity just for me to get my thoughts out and everything. But, yeah, it's definitely ‑‑ social media is definitely changing the world. We talked about it at Stanford in my classes. I'm a communication major, so it's just really interesting to see how it's changing how people interact with people in general, whether it's athlete to fan or athlete to athlete or people to people. It's definitely changing the world.
Q Have you went my meet‑ups or anything like that from a fan or maybe another celebrity standpoint that you may not have wanted to?
MICHELLE WIE: Not yet, no. I just think it's I try to kind of interact with my fans as much as I can. Yeah, but nothing like that, no.
Q Michelle, one person asked, what are those things on your legs, what are they for, what do they do for you?
MICHELLE WIE: I just had a slight knee injury in the beginning of the year, and this tape has been helping to heal, get the inflammation down and support it a little bit. Trying to take some pieces off and hopefully I'll be tape free soon, but, yeah, it's definitely helping the recovery process.
Q You've been on the Tour for quite a long time but you're still one of the younger players. There's a lot of young talent in the LPGA. How exciting is that to be part of week in, week out, with a whole bunch of people the same age, same talent?
MICHELLE WIE: It feels great. I feel like our tour has so many awesome people out there. As young as I am, I don't feel young anymore because there's so many younger players out there. But I think it's just great to see because they're the future of our tour, they're going to be here after we leave. So it's great to see all the rookies out here and all the younger players. But at the same time I just think that we all have really great chemistry out here. We all get along and we all just want to keep growing our tour and it's pretty impressive that we've done in the last couple years with the LPGA staff and all the players. We really work hard. So it's a lot of fun to see.
Q Who do you follow on the PGA Tour, anybody you follow?
MICHELLE WIE: I don't really watch a lot of golf in general. But after moving to Jupiter I've started to become friends with a couple of them, so I like to follow them and see how they play, but I don't really watch a whole bunch of golf when I don't play.
Q Michelle, I've been watching you play ever since you were a rookie. The fact that you are having such a fantastic year I don't think is a surprise to anybody. We knew it was coming. The difference I see in you is just even walking around, you seem like a much happier person than you ever were before. Is that a fair statement?
MICHELLE WIE: I don't know if that's fair or not. I'm generally a pretty happy person. I don't know, I just think I consciously try to be grateful for everything and just really look around and really try to enjoy everything. I think just growing up you don't really get a chance to look around you and really be grateful for what you have. I think when you're kind of in your teens through whatever, everything is like uhhh, my life, I hate everything. I know I was like that. But I think I may have a different view once I hit my 30s, but 20s I've really started to look around and really feel lucky that I get to do this for a living, you know, that I am outside, I'm healthy, I'm playing golf. I get to do what I love to do every single day, so I definitely feel very grateful that I am in this situation, this position, and it's a lot of fun.
Q Michelle, you said earlier you get recognized more since you won the U.S. Open. When people come out to this tournament this weekend, most of them are going to want to see you. How do you handle that?
MICHELLE WIE: I love the fans. I love when people come out and watch me play. I think it's just great. We had a lot of people out on the practice round. I hope a lot of people come out this weekend and watch us play because it's a great golf course, weather looks like it's going to be good. Hopefully I didn't just jinx it. I hope a lot of people come out.
MODERATOR: Anything else for Michelle?
Q Michelle, they talk about golfers owning their own swing. You're a case where you own your own putting style. Can you talk about how that all developed and where you made the conscious decision to own this style because it was effective for you?
MICHELLE WIE: Yeah, I mean, I kind of did it a couple years ago. I just didn't realize how it looked until I looked in a mirror when someone kind of was talking about it. But I'm not out here in the business to look cool or try to be ‑‑ try to fit in or whatever. I'm just going to do whatever it takes to make putts, and for me that's what feels comfortable so I'm just going to keep doing it until it doesn't feel comfortable. It's not something that's set in cement, but right now it's feeling comfortable so I'm going to just keep going with it.

Link to Article:
www.lpga.com/golf/news/2014/8/meijer-tuesday-notes.aspx

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Stats and Stuff: LPGA prepared to make more history at Blythefield

Excerpt:

Looking at Blythefield
Blythefield Country Club will play to par 71 this week, the same as it totaled for the three Western events. However, the nines have been switched, except for the real No. 18 continuing to be the No. 18 for the tournament, and No. 9 the No. 9 in the tournament. The 10th through 17th holes will be the first eight holes this week, and the back nine of the tournament will start at the actual No. 1. One of the most memorable holes will be the fourth hole this week (normally the 13th), a par 3 that plays across the rapids on the Rogue River.

Link to Article:
www.lpga.com/golf/blogs/2014/8/stats-and-stuff-meijer.aspx

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Pairings and Tee Times for Thursday and Friday:

On Thursday, Michelle’s group will be 3 hours and 33 minutes into their golf game when TV comes on at 5:00 PM EST…
On Friday, Michelle’s group should be done with their round of golf when TV comes on at 5:00 PM EST….

Thursday, 7 August
1:27 PM EST
Tee #1...Grp #39
WIE, Michelle
THOMPSON, Lexi
MUNOZ, Azahara

Friday, 8 August
8:32 AM EST
Tee #10...Grp #16
WIE, Michelle
THOMPSON, Lexi
MUNOZ, Azahara

TV Times
Aug 7 - GC 5:00 PM-7:00 PM ET
Aug 8 - GC 5:00 PM-7:00 PM ET
Aug 9 - GC 5:00 PM-7:00 PM ET
Aug 10 - GC 5:00 PM-7:00 PM ET

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more pics on my blog: Michelle Wie Ready For 2014 Meijer LPGA Classic

Michelle Wie


It’s been an excellent 2014 season for Michelle Wie. She won her first Major, the US Women’s Open, captured multiple wins and is among the leaders in several statistical categories. However, she’s run into a little mini-slump, missing the cut in her past two tournaments. Perhaps she was worn out or distracted by all the media and attention following her Major triumph. She admitted to being mentally exhausted and putting her clubs away for a week. Or maybe she just had a couple of bad tournaments. In any case, hopefully the 4-time LPGA winner can bounce back this week with another top 10 finish.