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Morgan Pressel: Michelle Wie
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Inkster, Nancy Lopez and Karrie Webb, and rising stars Morgan Pressel, Brittany Lincicome and Paige MacKenzie were on site for the event hosted by LPGA veteran and philanthropist Val Skinner. Other LPGA Pros participating in the 2007 event included Helen Alfredsson, Nicole Castrale, Heather Daly-Donofrio, Meaghan Francella, Vicki Goetze-Ackerman, Tracy Hanson, Rachel Hetherington, Christina Kim, Carin Koch, Meg Mallon, Michelle McGann, Mhairi McKay, Kristy McPherson, Patricia Meunier-Lebouc, Janice Moodie, Virada Niapathpongporn, Nina Reis, Kelly Robbins, Angela Stanford, Sherri Steinhauer and Wendy Ward.
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Commissioner Carolyn Bivens has done her part to get the ball rolling by granting Morgan Pressel full LPGA Tour membership at the beginning of the golf year. Now 2 of the big 3 rookies (Pressel & Ai Miyazato) have secured entry into the Kraft Nabisco, the 1st Major tournament on the 2006 LPGA schedule. However, the biggest professional rookie has an entry problem. Michelle Wie does not have full LPGA Tour membership - she hasn’t even applied - and the Kraft Nabisco does not extend sponsor’s exemptions to non-LPGA member pros.
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Pressel is looking for an edge. She wants to get into Wie’s head the fact that she looks at Wie as no more than an equal and is not afraid of her in any way. This is a tactic taken directly out of Muhammad Ali’s book. There is nothing quite like an opponent having an emotional reaction to your very presence or the mention of your name. That reaction clouds the mind and affects performance. And this is one sport where that would really have a detrimental effect.
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Morgan knows how to win. The difference between Pressel and Michelle Wie is that Pressel has actually won an event. Wie stands to make a lot more money through endorsements but has yet to prove herself the winner Pressel has become. No doubt Wie's wins will come in time, but Morgan has got the job done so far.
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Wie gazed intently across the water at the 18th green from just outside the scorer's tent, while Pressel turned her back to the action, doing her best to keep it together. At the junior level, when you have a bad round, you can jump in your parents' car and cry all the way home. But out here, on the LPGA Tour, they don't let family inside the ropes.
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That swing was on display again in August when, following her runner-up finish at the U.S. Open, Pressel triumphed at the U.S. Women's Amateur Championship. In the finals, she defeated 21-year-old Maru Martinez of Venezuela, 9-and-8, the equivalent of a 30-point blowout in basketball. It was the fourth-most-lopsided win in the 105-year history of the event. Pressel's road to victory might have been more difficult had Wie entered the event, but she skipped it, preferring instead to continue trying to make the cut at PGA events. That's the biggest difference between these two young stars. While Wie has taken the "SportsCenter"-friendly route of competing against men, Pressel has taken the Tiger Woods approach of learning how to win events.
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