This vintage article was originally posted January 12, 2007 after Michelle Wie had withdrawn from the ’07 Sony Open, which she was destined to miss the cut for playing the weekend in. Wie’s fortune has not faired much better since this article, just this week she took a lot of criticism for opting to miss the Women’s British Open in favor of playing in the PGA’s Legends Reno-Tahoe Open. Wie missed the cut….again, go figure, anybody else seeing a pattern here?
Michelle Wie, You Need to Find Your Place!Is anybody else sick and tired of hearing about Michelle Wie? I certainly am. Never has such mediocrity ever been tolerated so much in golf. It’s like the golf world is trying to find another Tiger Woods, thinking they have found it in the form of a teenage girl. Please…it’s also like the NBA trying to find another Michael Jordan. I’ve got a message for all the people in the basketball and golf worlds:THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER TIGER WOODS, AND THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER MICHAEL JORDAN! LeBron James is really good, but will he win 6 championships? I highly doubt it. Michelle Wie will do good things on the LPGA, and at Stanford (where she plans to attend college), but will she ever win a PGA tour event? Simply put, no! In her few years of participating in PGA tour events, Wie has never made a cut! Yesterday Ms. Wie posted a +8 on her first 9 holes at the Sony Open, so playing this weekend isn’t looking too bright for her either. It seems as though Michelle is a lost cub, just like Simba in the Lion King. “You need to find your place in the circle of life.” And Michelle, just to get the thought process started, your place is not on the PGA tour.
