Michelle Wie One Back In The Dinah
/If you saw any of the opening round of the LPGA's first major--the Dinah Shore for our purposes here considering the open sponsorship situation after this year--Michelle Wie's focus and game stood out.
John Strege on her opening 67 and reminding us of her past perforances at Mission Hills where the once promising star is one off the first round lead of ShanShan Feng:
When she was 13, Wie tied for ninth in the Kraft Nabisco. She followed that remarkable performance with finishes of fourth, T-14 and T-3, the latter her best performance in the event, when she was 16. It was a stretch of golf that ramped up expectations, arguably beyond reasonable, that have never been met.
Wie entered the tournament 38th in the Rolex Ranking and has won only twice in her LPGA career, but not since August of 2010, the CN Canadian Women's Open.
She talked after the round about how comfortable she is (and looked on the course):
