should the tour take some action against her?
there was talk on espn radio that the tour "suggested" she quit the tourny last week because if she shot 88, she'd lose her exemptions?

Its called "Rule 88". It basically states that if a NON-MEMBER (Michelle is not a member) of the LPGA shoots a score of 88 or higher in a tournament round, they are suspended from playing in any tour events for 1 year. If Michelle has finished bogey-bogey on her last two holes, she would have shot 88.

yep, so she bailed due to an 'injury', and then went out next day and practiced...

IF the tour "suggested" she quit then they don't want to take action against her. that was the tours chance to get rid of her sorry act for a year and let her grow up some.

almost....it was 2 days after her bail out.

Either way Deb, she is heading down the wrong track. Too bad it is too late for her to play for Stanford. I do hope she enrolls in school and stays there.

I think the only ones suggesting it on the tour are the players and caddies.


How far are you from Bulle Rock?

yeah, she is...it's a shame when parents put their kids thru more than they should, at a young age, or try to live thru their children. of course you can't say it's a shame that she can't have a normal life, since this IS her life, and thus is normal to her...too bad.
they needed to stick to whatever rules they had regarding age of participants and such. but the $$ were showing up in a LOT of eyes, not just the parents'.

Can anyone say "STAGE PARENTS"?:(

Kev,

Did they switch from DuPont while you were still on the tour?

I've been to and played DuPont but only been by Bulle Rock....is it that nice of a track? I know T.V. rarely does a course justice, but it just looks like a mess out there...(or at least to me) I realize you can't compare the old mature courses like DuPont, Baltusrol, etc....but man, maybe cuz it's literally in the middle of nowhere...I don't know....

oh by the way..I'm about an hour and 20 minutes....

They were still at Dupont when I was out there...and I liked the course. Good, old classic design.

I have never been to or played Bulle Rock, but plenty of friends have...and they all loved it.

sad, but true. but there are a lot of parents like that--they wanted to be a baseball/football player, etc, so they have the kids do it, since they couldn't. then the kids who get stressed out while mommy and daddy play who is the best parent, and run the kids ragged all night, every night, to practice, dance, ballet, etc, etc....

i was left pretty much to my own devices growing up--we found plenty to do--without our parents 'help', we turned out just fine. a bit scarred, with great stories tho! when did it become mandatory that parents completely structure every moment of their kids lives??? let kids be kids, let them be golf pros or whatever when they grow up, and choose on their own.

i'm 20-30 minutes farther west of Samarta, so close to 2 hrs.

I was telling my wife the other night that I don't remember my parents ever helping me with my homework...and I didn't get chaufferred around when I played Sports....HS was 15 miles from home...bus in the morning and hitchin a ride at nite to get home!

I am truly blessed. I started playing golf in high school. I played for my high school team, played for a Div. III college and have been playing professionally since 1995. So I can't venture to guess how many tournaments I have played in the last 17 years or so....but I do know this.


My parents have seen me play golf ONCE....and even then it was only for 9 holes of a tournament....and I love them for that. They let golf be "my thing"

mine didn't help me either! i can count on one finger the amount of times my mother came to pick me up at school. we had a late bus that would run you close to your house if you stayed after--about a two mile walk from the stop to the house, suited me just fine.

having mom or dad around was a bad thing, if they were interested in what i was doing, it was probably because i was in trouble!

be home by dinner, be home by dark. pretty much the rules. if it was a nice day, we were out of the house.

seems now her 4 amatuer partners from the Monday Pro-Am this week have complained to Tour officials that Ms. Wie seemed very disinterested in playing with them.

She just don't get it....

She just needs to get boinked so she will chill out. Pent up agression, dude!!!

amazingly enough...so do you. I will have my people contact her people. You could owe me big time for this...

I don't need to get laid, this new found wealth has served at least one purpose :)

man whore....