The blue blazer crowd at the United States Golf Association loves to pretend that they are the great golf democracy. They’re bringing golf to the people you know.

Every golfer in a USGA championship is treated equal.

OK, make that treated equal in theory.

For in turns out, that goes out the window when it comes to Michelle Wie. What went unreported in the mania over Winless Wonder’s run at 59th place at the U.S. Open qualifying is that the USGA put Wie’s hole-by-hole scoring at Canoe Brook on its home page, while every other golfer in the field only got their scores updated every nine holes.

Part of the reason this went unreported is the USGA didn’t get its hole by hole Wie scoring up until after her first nine holes - (apparently because of a technical glitch) - and people had moved on to other sites to catch the news.

But this is significant. It’s one thing for ESPN, Yahoo and the Golf Channel to go Wie crazy. It’s another for the governing body running the event to put her before other golfers.

Where was the hole by hole updates of Calvin Kupeyan’s qualifying attempt from Craswell, Oregon. Surely, Calvin had tons of friends and family from Canada who would have loved to see his 155 documented.

The USGA is all about treating its competitors equal after all.

Well, in blue blazer double talk anyways.

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