Michelle Wie Comes Agonizingly Close To Qualifying For US Open

You are correct, 4 way tie at 6 under.

However, Pak was 1st, and Webb 2nd as a result of losing the playoff, and if Kim and Miyazato tied for 3rd, wouldn't Wie and the others have tied for 4th?

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I admit I don't know how these are scored....

x-Se Ri Pak, $270,000 71-69-71-69--280 8-under
Karrie Webb, $163,998 70-70-72-68--280

Mi Hyun Kim, $105,5016 68-71-71-71--281 7-under
Ai Miyazato, $105,501 68-72-69-72--281

Cristie Kerr, $57,464 66-74-74-68--282 6-under
Michelle Wie, $57,464 71-68-71-72--282
Shi Hyun Ahn, $57,464 69-70-71-72--282
Pat Hurst, $57,464 66-71-72-73--282

Quote from Magna:

As putting is mostly mental, I agree a coach shouldn't harp on it but at the same time there's too much inconsistency in her regimen as I mentioned earlier. Interesting observation in the St. Petersburg Times regarding same:

"One thing Wie will have to learn is to settle on a routine. From one putt to the next, Wie rarely got into a groove. Sometimes she putted without a practice stroke. Other times she took three or four. Sometimes she went quickly, at others she took her time."


[LATER EDIT: btw Z10 she tied for 5th, not 3rd]
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Quote from ZZZzzzzzzz:

You are correct, 4 way tie at 6 under.

However, Pak was 1st, and Webb 2nd as a result of losing the playoff, and if Kim and Miyazato tied for 3rd, wouldn't Wie and the others have tied for 4th?

:confused:

I admit I don't know how these are scored....
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Tournaments are scored where the winner, naturally, is 1st and if there's a playoff the loser is automatically 2nd. Then it starts counting down from there, so at the LPGA Championship the next group of people who tied and didn't make the playoff are tied for 3rd (as 1st/2nd places are "used" up). Since there were two of them tied for 3rd they "use" up 3rd/4th places, so the next group of people are tied for 5th. As there were four of them at -6 (including Michelle) that "uses" up 5th/6th/7th/8th places and therefore the next group is tied for 9th. In other words, the ties "use" up various multiple levels and then it skips to the next available place. Hope that makes sense.
 
Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

Magna,

Agree. You know, if I were her coach I don't think I would harp on putting too much. The last thing she needs is to go mental about it. To be a great putter, you have to be prepared to miss the odd tap in. Otherwise, you will start trying to steer the ball. I think her stroke is fine. Maybe her concentration or greenreading lapses at times. Sooner or later she puts it all together and wins a women's event by 15 strokes.
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I agree that it's a matter of time before she blows the field away in a women's event, but... regarding her putting stroke; last week I saw the highlights and didn't think too much of it. However, I saw a collection of lo-lights from her putting over the past few months, and I think she has a few technical problems. It is a big surprise that Leadbetter and the brain trust hasn't addressed this problem... or maybe they've tried. Basically, she looks very tentative within 8 feet. AAA is right about having to commit to those putts and be ready to have a few lip out, but she has simply missed the hole from 3 feet or less, a few times. I really hope she can get it together. Otherwise, we may have another George Knudsen, a guy whom Jack Nicklaus once described as 'a million dollar ball striker and a 10-cent putter'.
 
Wei's approach has been painfully ill-advised. She went for the quick bucks and it will cost her down the road.

After a point, physical talent means little to nothing in golf. It's 99% between the ears. She's spent the past few years learning how to Lose.

She would have been much better off competing against amateurs for a few years, winning 50 in a row. It will be tough to learn how to win after so many years of losing.

Her being carted off the PGA tour on a stretcher is going to be working in the back-of-her mind for years to come. Firing her caddie is admission that she is begining to reach for excuses.


excuses produce failure.
 
Quote from Magna:

Interesting article on the firing of Michelle's 10th caddie since 2003. He got summarily dismissed earlier this week after she tied for a disappointing 26th at the British Women's Open. Will she eventually live up to her vast potential? Undoubtedly. But in the meantime, in the words of Roseanne Roseanneadanna, "it's always something..."
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Good question...ask Sergio Garcia....remember when him and Tiger were going to be battling from 99' on?? Or David Duval?

the world is full of potential phenoms...that's why Lebron is so refreshing...he actually lived up to the hype...So did Tiger...but for every Tiger there is a Tryon or Garcia..for every LeBron there is a Kwame Brown.....Wie? hmmmm.:confused:
 
Quote from EqtTrdr:

only 2 more years till she's doing porn...


I can't wait!!:D :D
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I use to say the same thing about the Olsen twins and that hasn't worked out to well...they look like crap now!:p
 
Michelle keeps trying to make the cut in a PGA event. Thursday's opening round -- no birdies. Fridays round - 8 bogeys, 1 double-bogey, 1 birdie, score of 81. Net result -- +14 (23 shots behind the leaders), absolute last in the field. Previous tournament (European Masters) result -- absolute last in the field. Her last seven rounds against men, not including an Asian Tour stop this year in which she made the cut against a field of total unknowns, include today's 81, two 79s, a 78 and two 77s. During the opening round yesterday she averaged 259.3 yards off the tee and while those numbers may be among the longest hitters on the LPGA she outdrove only two men in the entire field.

On the one hand I find it admirable that she keeps trying. She's one month shy of 17 years old and at that age I was pretty stubborn too. Sponsors like her because, at least until she makes her first cut, it attracts attention to their events. Most male players don't like her because of the circus atmosphere and it prevents someone on the fringe, desperately trying to keep his tour card, from playing those events. But since Vijay Singh spoke what was on most everybody's mind a few years ago, and got resoundingly slapped on the wrist for not being politically correct, the guys have learned to mostly shut up. Still say it's a shame she doesn't compete against the ladies and at least get one win under her belt. This stuff, especially the pathetic scores of 81 and the repeated high 70's can't be helping her confidence. But then again she's still "only" 16 so I guess that excuses everything she says or does as a professional.
 
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