Michelle Wie News

Michelle Wie didn't hit a fairway off the tee, didn't hit a green in regulation. And through the first nine holes Thursday, it was becoming increasing clear that she didn't have a chance to make the cut in the Sony Open. Wie was 8 over par, and easily could have been worse without making four putts outside six feet. The 17-year-old from Honolulu was in last place, four shots worse ...

For someone who grew up in Hawaii, Michelle Wie picked the perfect metaphor to explain her recent struggles. ``Golf goes in waves,'' she said. She was on the kind of wave found in winter at Waimea Bay earlier this year when she came within a whisker of becoming the youngest major champion in history, at the Kraft Nabisco Championship and the LPGA Championship. The biggest wave she caught might have ...

Michelle Wie beat only one player in yet another embarrassing performance in a men's event, shooting an 8-over 80 on Friday in the second round of the Japanese tour's Casio World Open. The 17-year-old Wie finished at 17-over 161 on the Kuroshio Country Club course, leaving her 27 strokes behind leader Tetsuya Haraguchi and a shot ahead of amateur Tomomichi Oto. She didn't birdie a single hole in the tournament, ...

Michelle Wie had another terrible round in a men's event, shooting a 9-over 81 on Thursday in the first round of the Casio World Open. The 17-year-old's troubles started early on the Kuroshio Country Club course. After teeing off in light rain on No. 10, she bogeyed the par-4 12th hole and had four straight bogeys starting with the par-3 14th. ``I don't think it was pressure,'' Wie said. ``My ...

Michelle Wie has a new agent, the second significant change in the golf prodigy's camp in the last 10 weeks following the dismissal of her caddie. Ross Berlin, whom the William Morris Agency hired specifically to handle Wie, has taken a management position with the PGA Tour. He will be replaced by Greg Nared, a Nike manager who spent nearly three years recruiting Wie. Nike signed her to a five-year ...

With sparse galleries and a pedestrian performance from Michelle Wie, perhaps the biggest buzz at the Samsung World Championship was its possible relocation next year to Pebble Beach. No deal has been signed, nor has the tournament decided where to stage the 2007 event. The 20-player field has been held at 14 courses in its 27-year history, from Florida to California, from Australia to South Korea. It has been in ...

Michelle Wie didn't exactly steal the show Thursday at the Samsung World Championship. If anything, she held it up. Starting her second year as a pro, Wie took a half-hour to play the 14th hole at Bighorn with two rulings, a whiff, an unplayable lie from a desert bush and a shot off the cement cart path just to get back to the fairway. She wound up with a quadruple-bogey ...

Michelle Wie celebrated her 17th birthday Wednesday. Next up is an anniversary. One year ago at the Samsung World Championship, the six-foot teenager from Hawaii steadied her nerves and ripped a 3-wood down the middle of the fairway to embark on a professional career that was loaded with expectations and perhaps more hype than any player in LPGA Tour history. Expectations remain high. The scrutiny is still severe. And one ...

She was playing in the 84 Lumber Classic and, for a while Friday, it appeared Michelle Wie might shoot an 84. Wie's drives constantly landed short of the big-hitting pros, forcing her to use long irons on her second shots when the men were pulling out seven-irons. Her putts wouldn't drop, either, during a second-round 81 _ even those routine four-to-six-footers most on tour can sink by the dozens. She keeps talking a good game when opposing ...

The course was too long, the competition too good. Michelle Wie has an exceptional golf game for a 16-year-old, except when she's playing against the men. Heavy overnight rain softened up the third-longest course on the PGA Tour and created ideal scoring conditions Thursday at the 84 Lumber Classic, but not for Wie. Her sixth attempt to became the first woman in 61 years to make a cut in a ...