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- Wie withdraws from LPGA Championship
- Michelle Wie, who shot an even-par 72 in the first round of the LPGA Championship, has withdrawn with a lingering ankle injury. She issued this statement: "This tournament, and the support shown from the fans...
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- 'We see your work and know your heart'
- Stanford football coach Jim Harbaugh, no doubt still euphoric over his own team's rout of USC on Saturday, congratulated Michelle Wie via Twitter on her victory Sunday in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational. "Congrats from our...
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- Has Wie finally caught up to her potential?
- Michelle Wie finally closed a tournament in a manner befitting her vast potential, with an 18th-hole birdie that turned a one-stroke lead into a two-stroke victory in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational, her first win on...
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- Stanford's cheering section
- Michelle Wie, a sophomore at Stanford, is a fan its football and occasionally exchanges Twitter posts with its coach Jim Harbaugh. Here she is (middle) at Stanford's game with Arizona State on Saturday night....
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- Is this cheating?
- Michelle Wie, on Twitter: "Ps. Anyone know how to construct a quantile-quantile plot?" Wie is taking a statistics course at Stanford. We're kidding about the cheating part, incidentally. But if this will help, Michelle, here's...
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- Let's Change the Rules
- Prompted by recent events on two tours, Peter Belec of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, writes to Golf Digest about some rule changes he'd like to see. Two things happened recently that call for changes to...
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- That Scorecard Rule: Final word?
- Shall this be the final pro/con on the scorecard rule that cost Michelle Wie a disqualification? Wie's put it behind her. After this, perhaps we will, too. First, Lee Giles of Sedona, Arizona, to the...
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- Wie's Continuing Woes
- Golf World reader Pete Gitlin of Phoenix writes the words many people were thinking when they heard of the bizarre disqualification of Michelle Wie this weekend. It's Saturday afternoon, and in the excitement of...
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- Wie now asking for the impossible
- Stanford football coach Jim Harbaugh posted this on his Twitter account: "Congrats USA winning Solheim Cup. @themichellewie undefeated in her first ever Cup & led all Americans in points. Go Michelle! Go Cardinal!" Stanford's own...
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- Michelle Wie
- We continue to get both letters and posts on the Michelle Wie disqualification. Here's an interesting one from former tournament director Tony Coleman: As the former Executive Director of the Wisconsin PGA and Tournament Director...
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- Wie's Disqualification
- Michael Auerbach of Phoenix, Maryland, doesn't blame Michelle Wie for her disqualification at the State Farm. How, he says, could the scoring officials let this happen? He brings up the disqualification of Jesper Parnevik and...
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- Wie's Reno Exemption
- Golf World reader Joe Martin of Philadelphia was the first to react to news yesterday that Michelle Wie had been offered and accepted an exemption into the PGA Tour's Reno-Tahoe Open. Joe addresses his ire...
