michelle wie
 

anybody see what happened

looks like she grounded a club after a shot in a hazard

Has she posed nude yet or put out a sex tape?

no but she's been to peter lugers

Taking her longer to show the kitty than it did to win a tournament.


That's sad. :rolleyes:

fat go down to chinatown , you can see all you want , and get all you want to , up on the 3rd floor , have a few dumplings and relax

I didn't see it. Did she call a penalty on herself?

no - they came up to her , mid round

she claims she lost her balance and thatis why the club touched the hazard , the rules officals didn't see it that way

Said she had a white skirt on and didn't want to get it muddy.

What is grounding a club? Like she used it like a cane or something.

I have been known to fall in a sandtrap or two and I always use my clubs to get me in and out.

I honestly do not think she knows the rules Kev. She had some lame excuse about not having her balance in the hazzard so the penalty didn't apply to her. Maybe Tiger can give her a few pointers......

I'm not a big fan of hers, and she did break the rule, so she gets the two shots, but for cryin' out loud why does the media eat her alive all the time? Probably other penalties were assessed/taken and not a blip on those. She needs a break from the media, but probably won't happen.

Was thinking the same but the parents are supposed to pieces of work that have earned every bit of ill will. She's a kid who was never allowed to be one.

Exactly! A lot of ill will from her constant efforts to play above LPGA level too. Nike/Media sold her way up the ladder, now she has to be under the microscope every event. And...........some LPGA rules officials behave like Nazi's.........

trying to talk her way out of an obvious penalty is not the right way to go about things in golf.. you take your penalty and move on. respect the rules!

Anytime your ball is in a water hazard or bunker, you can't ground your club inside the hazard or bunker.

In your case, once you finally get the ball out of the bunker on your 4th attempt, then you can ground your club.

:tro:

GFY. I am decent in the bunkers up here.

The bunkers in Florida were ridiculous, it was like hitting off of dust it was so 'fine' and thin. Up here you gotta smoke the ball out of traps for it to go anywhere.

kev wasn't the rule infraction after the shot ?? the club was grounded after she hit the ball and was trying to get out of the water hazard (still a penalty though)

Didnt look like she lost her balance from what I say in the video.

I second your statement. If you cant abide by the rules dont be an embarassment to sport. Dont play it.

Here is a link to the video:

http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/blog/de...rn=golf,230778

Wie also states that the rules of golf book isnt great reading material. Some spokeswoman for the golfing world.

no i know her reason was flimsy , she hit the shot and was fine until after the shot and she grounded the club then , i have seen people ground the club before they play the shot , i think this is where some of the confusion is coming from

The ball only moved a few inches out of the water in into the rough, but still inside the hazard line. Had the ball cleared the hazard line, she could have grounded her club without penalty.

Do you hate your life? You are pretty close to the most negative person I have ever been in some form of contact with.

what if that was old molly in the lady's member guest who was 75 at the time , assuming there was a tape that you as the club pro could look at , and saw that while the ball remained inside the hazrd , the old lady (unlike a young spray wie) would have lost her balance and fell into the water without the aid of the club touching the ground .... in that case couldn't the exception to grounding the club be used and the women not penalized?

i agree with the wie decision , she wasn't losing her balance

1. Old Molly wouldn't have gone in the hazard and played that shot.

2. Rules are rules. They apply to everyone.

I had a woman that was a member at a course I worked at for years not speak to me for a very long time because I DQ'd her and her 2 playing partners from a tournament :D

kev , then why is the exception there in the rule book , most infractions there are no cameras there , if someone was in a bunker and the ball was plugged up near the lip , they took a hard swing , and their 1st reaction was not oh where is the ball , their 1st reaction was a reflexive action of putting the club into the sand because they didn't want to go tumbling down , i have seen this time and time again with older people - when would the exception apply is my question?

I'm fairly certain the bunker exception has to do with the golfer not testing the surface of the sand when a situation like that occurs.

I guess your saying its okay to break the rules of golf? That was Wie's quote about the book not mine. How am I being negative? Just curious. No I dont hate my life. I have a wonderful wife and son that I wake up to everyday. I really could care less what your ignorant @ss thinks about me. Im not here to please you or anyone else. The only people I have to please are my wife and son and to an exent my boss at where I work. If you dont like that and you think im being negative well thats your opinion.

Nice to see someone here enforce the rules of golf. Im sure Scav's think less of you now since you enforced the rules of golf.

woody austin - did the same shot a couple of yrs ago

he put on the rain suit and pants , and got the ball out , lost his balance and got soaked , but no 2 shot penalty

Exactly Martin, Woody got the ball out of the hazard, so of course no penalty. Michelle failed to get her ball out of the hazard, so she deserved the 2 shots. Its pretty black and white.

I don't know...Scavs knows an awful lot of **** about me that very few people do. Hard for him to think much less of me :)

Not to be sappy comedy guy, but you know that is far from the truth. :tro: :tro: :tro:

This yokel car racing guy is just full of way too much hatred. To take the time to bitch and moan all the time, well, that is alot of pent up aggression, man. Go hit a punching bag or something, it works wonders on the psyche

You two ought to get a room :rolleyes: .

Stop it

Oh please......you have to tell us what rule and why?

Rule 11-4b

Funny ending to the story. As I said, the lady didn't care for me for a long time. I used to play a lot of golf with her husband. Years after I left that job, I ran into them at an OTB in Chesapeake. Come to find out, they had a huge love of horses too. We all became pretty good friends in the end.

Doc,
I'll tell you a good Dq story. I was playing in a couple's championship and after the round the pro asked me if I saw what the people in my foursome did in the trap on #5. I was standing next to the green side bunker and the other team in my foursome evidently touched the sand with the rake in the bunker. The team 190 yards away claimed that they were testing the consistency of the sand and wanted the couple DQ'ed. The women was such an awful golfer that she couldn't have cheated if she wanted to. I told the pro I did not see the infraction and I did not believe it occurred. After the round the couple that complained accused me of covering for them. My wife and I played with the complaining couple in the 2nd round of the tournament and they watched every move I made. I was so irritated I shot my career low round and my wife and I won the tournament. They still don't talk to me.

Career low? Must have shot 86 :D

76 ;)

Do you find that women are far bigger sticklers when it comes to calling rule violations on each other? My wife says it always goes on while I have never had an issue. I think part of it is the men know the rules a little better, to make a generalization. Do you agree?