Comments on: Promise Meets Reality: Michelle Wie Fails in Open Bid

By: ttee9

ttee9 — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:51:47 +0000

.... Might be time to remember it's just "not" a mans sport anymore ....

Michelle Wie only missed it by two strokes yesterday ..... ;^)

By: tartanjack

tartanjack — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 05:19:33 +0000

Greg, you make an excellent point and one I've thought about. Possibly burning out is one of the big "if's" I wrote of earlier. I don't know, but it's possible. Sooner or later every kid has to make it on their own, no matter their profession. Time will tell whether Michelle has it in her to be a true champion. Because, in the end, it's not what the parents did but what the child is that counts. We'll see.

By: Greg Jones

Greg Jones — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 04:09:17 +0000

I'm actually going to make a prediction, I think she'll be out of golf by 25, burnt out and with a complex.

The reason I think this, her father is the Anti Earl Woods, BJ Wie just pushed her too fast into the spot light and as mature and composed as she may be, she still isn't ready to handle the pressure.

I believe that if she was allowed to be a kid and played a few years at the college and amature level she would of been a major force, but as of right now all she's learning to do is lose with grace and fall short in all her attempts.

She's never learned to win, how to handle a lead, and how to strike the death blow to the field that Tiger and Annika can do.

You can't keep losing and failing and keep a winners mindset and keep confident.

So if she keeps tilting at wind mills she's going to never recover.

Just my opinion.

(And please, no more making excuses for her, if she wants to play with the adults you have to treat her as such, plus I don't see anyone making excuses for Morgan pressel...)

By: tartanjack

tartanjack — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:05:45 +0000

Yeah... it is a stretch. There are a ton of "if's" that have to happen. But I don't think it's impossible. And you heard it here first!

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:54:01 +0000

She may one day win an LPGA major, sure. Might even be in a week. But a PGA Tour major? That's quite a stretch…