"When she wasn't standing over a putt, Wie looked at ease."

Bill Fields had never seen Michelle Wie play in person, so he used this week's Sybase Classic to check out her game and file this GolfDigest.com story:

Wie has a very athletic posture when she's hitting full shots, and she seems to carry that over to her putting, where she takes a fairly wide stance (Dave Stockton, a master putter, probably would say nothing wrong with that). There is no one best method to putt well. In their respective primes, Jack Nicklaus sure looked much different from Tom Watson over a putt. But many of the great putters do seem to have something in common: they look relaxed, comfortable, little tension to be found. Think Greg Norman when he was holing everything, or Tiger Woods. Wie could borrow a bit of what those two have.

When she wasn't standing over a putt, Wie looked at ease. "Nice birdie," she said to Kim on the 16th tee after the diminutive South Korean's birdie on No. 15. Wie flipped a ball to a young girl near the eighth tee. Outside the ropes B.J. and Bo Wie, her parents, were in a gallery as large as any on the day, dad carrying a sizable pair of binoculars, mom with a laser rangefinder that she sometimes used to surmise what daughter had left to a green.