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Michelle Wie: Sony Open
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For sure, Michelle Wie will be a pretty package, one that any advertiser would be after. Ultimately... she's getting paid to play golf--and win. If five years from now she's still missing cuts and trying to earn a spot on the PGA Tour, she won't be so alluring. And while she has come close to winning other tournaments, Michelle has also been known to crumble, particularly on the putting green. This year at the Sony Open, she three-putted within eight feet of the pin for a triple bogey. At the Women's U.S. Open, she was tied for the lead but blew her last round by missing several critical putts and finished in 23rd place.
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Michelle Wie became the [Y]oungest person, and just the fourth female, to play in a PGA tour event when she teed off at the Sony Open on January 15, 2004. Wie missed the 36-hole cut by just one stroke, but finished with a higher score than 47 grown men! Michelle Wie didn't look at all out of place at the event, with her average drive being a whopping 271 yards. However, Wie was still a bit disappointed at not making the cut. "Just one more shot, and I would have made it," she said after finishing with birdies on two of the last three holes. In her first tournament as a pro on the LPGA tour, Wie was disqualified for making an illegal drop during the third round of the Samsung World Championship - after a reporter from Sports Illustrated, who was following her on the tour, snitched her out!
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Michelle Wie made sure she didn’t get too far ahead of herself in her first tournament round of the year. Telling herself to “stay in the present,” Wie shot a 3-under 69 in the Fields Open on Thursday to finish five strokes behind first-round leader Jeong Jang. Showing virtually no signs of the wrist injuries that plagued her last year, Wie broke 70 for the first time since the …
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HONOLULU - Michelle Wie announced today that she will play in the Japan Golf Tour 2006 CASIO WORLD OPEN GOLF TOURNAMENT. The tournament - from Thursday, November 23 to Sunday, November 26, 2006 - will take place at the Kochi Kuroshio Country Club. The event is co-sponsored by CASIO COMPUTER Co., Ltd. (head office in Shibuya, Tokyo, President Mr. Kazuo Kashio) , Kuroshio Tourist Development Co., Ltd. (head office in Kochi Prefecture, President Mr. Takashi Okazaki), and TV Kochi Co., Ltd. (head office in Kochi, President Tateo Fujiwara). Wie ... played in the tournament in 2005.
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Young Stanford student and professional golfer Michelle Wie is off to a good start in the opening round of her first tournament this year. With a gallery of 200 or so, she ended her round yesterday with a 69, five strokes off the lead. The second round at the LPGA’s Fields Open is underway now. This is the second LPGA event of the year.
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In the Men's Public Links, Michelle Wie made the top 64 in the stroke play rounds to qualify for match play and losing in the quarterfinals to the eventual champion. She then played in the Evian Masters, a major on the Ladies European Tour and a regular LPGA event, and finished in a tie for second. The week after, Michelle Wie finished tied for third at the Women's British Open, the fourth and final major of the year.
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