Any notice she is gradually getting her game back? I think she is a win or two away from becoming a solid player. We all forget she is only like 18.
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Would love to see her win soon.Comment -
I like this bet jj. Good luck.
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Wie DQ'ed
Wie DQ’d from State Farm over scorecard mishap
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By DAVID MERCER, Associated Press Writer 14 minutes ago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP)—Michelle Wie finished the third round of the State Farm Classic alone in second on Saturday—then was disqualified for failing to immediately sign her scorecard a day earlier.
Wie was playing her best golf of the year, finishing off a 5-under 67 to get to 17 under for the tournament, one stroke back of Yani Tseng.
That’s when Wie was disqualified by LPGA officials, who said they’d learned during play Saturday from tournament volunteers about the 18-year-old’s mistake.
“I don’t know why or how it happened,” said Wie, who had been crying moments earlier. She took no questions before leaving the clubhouse at Panther Creek Country Club.
Sue Witters, the LPGA’s director of tournament competitions, disqualified Wie in a small office in an LPGA trailer at the golf course after asking her what had happened.
“She was like a little kid after you tell them there’s no Santa Claus,” Witters said.
Wie said that after she finished her round on Friday, she left the tent where players sign their scorecards and was chased down by some of the tournament volunteers working in the tent who pointed out she hadn’t signed.
Wie returned to the tent and signed the card.
“I thought it would be OK,” she said.
But Wie, according to Witters, had already walked outside the roped-off area around the tent. At that point, the mistake was final.
Witters said she and other tour officials didn’t learn about the error from volunteers until well after Wie teed off Saturday. They let her finish the round, then took her to the office where she and her caddy, Tim Vickers, were informed of the ruling.
Wie, who is playing a part-time schedule while attending Stanford, opened with a 5-under 67 and followed with rounds of 65 and 67—though the last two won’t count.
It’s not he first time a mistake has cost Wie, either. She was in fourth place during the third round of the 2005 Samsung World Championship—her professional debut—when she was disqualified for taking an improper drop.
Tseng shot a 6-under-par 66 on Saturday to snatch the lead from Christin Kim, who entered the day atop the leader board. Tseng is 18 under for the tournament, and didn’t bogey a hole while sinking four birdies and an eagle.
Kim shot a disappointing 73, finishing the day in a tie for eighth place, six behind Tseng.
With Wie’s disqualification, Katie Futcher finished the day in third place at 16 under. She shot 66 on Saturday.
http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/news?slug=ap-lpgatour-wiedisqualified&prov=ap&type=lgns
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Damn......JJ jinxed her!Comment -
This girl is a real screw ball, this has happened before with her.Comment -
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jj touts her and she gets DQ.
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They're letting this broad go up against the men again. Unreal.
18-year-old Michelle Wie to play on PGA Tour again
By DOUG FERGUSON, AP Golf Writer 2 hours, 24 minutes ago
Fresh off a disqualification on the LPGA Tour, Michelle Wie has decided to tee it up against the men, again. Wie will play next week in the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open, the first time she'll play on the PGA Tour this year, tournament organizers said.
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It will be her eighth time playing on the PGA Tour, and she has yet to make a cut. The only time Wie has made money playing against the men was on the Korean Tour, in 2006, at the SK Telcom Open.
"It's not every day that a woman is given the opportunity to play on the greatest tour in the world," Wie said in a statement. "This is a tremendous opportunity for me to learn from these great players and take those lessons to the LPGA. This is another step in the process of making me a better player."
Wie, who is 18 and attends Stanford part time, has no status on any tour. She has only one sponsor's exemption left this year. She will be playing her seventh and final LPGA Tour event of this year at the CN Canadian Women's Open in August.
The Reno-Tahoe Open starts July 31 at Montreux Golf & Country Club. The Nevada tournament is one of the weakest fields on the PGA Tour, held opposite the World Golf Championship in Ohio. Steve Flesch won the Reno-Tahoe Open last year.
"This will be a great experience for the community to see a player like Michelle in this setting," tournament director Michael Stearns said in a statement. "Michelle is getting her game together, she's getting back in the swing of things and we have no problem extending her this opportunity."
Wie showed signs of improvement this past weekend at the State Farm Classic in Illinois. She was a shot off the lead going into the final round when Tour officials discovered that she had left the scoring area without signing her scorecard after Friday's second round. Wie finished her round Saturday, and after officials spoke with her about the scorecard problem, she was disqualified.
A win or high finish would have all but guaranteed her enough money to finish in the top 80 LPGA players this year, the cutoff for automatic inclusion in next year's tour.
There's been speculation Wie would concentrate solely on women's competition, especially after last year when she injured both wrists and made only two cuts.
Wie's chances of securing a 2009 LPGA Tour card now rest with her winning roughly $80,000 in her final tournament, which probably would take a top-three finish. Otherwise, she could be headed to the first of two stages of qualifying.
"I think the qualifying conflicts with school, so I probably won't go to that," Wie said last month at the U.S. Women's Open in Minnesota. But that was when she had greater hopes of winning enough money to become exempt for next year.
Her father made it sound as though Q-school was a distinct possibility at the time.
"What other options do we have?" he said.Comment
