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Annika Sorenstam blasts Michelle Wie on Ginn withdrawal: "Lack of respect and class"
Tuesday June 5, 2007 | 16:26:47 278 words, 4643 views
HAVRE DE GRACE, MD. - Taking the microphone moments ago in her McDonald’s LPGA Championship press conference, Annika Sorenstam laid into Michelle Wie for the teen drawing card’s highly controversial withdrawal from the Ginn Tribute. “I just feel there’s a little bit of lack of respect and class to just leave a tournament like that,” Sorenstam said, pulling no punches in a half filled interview room. “Especially being the hostess, it just seems really weird.” This is the first time the preeminent player in women’s golf for the last decade has criticized Wie publicly. Whether you think Team Wie’s decision to march off the 17th tee with the 88 Rule hanging over her head was right or wrong, it’s apparent that many attitudes toward Wie on the LPGA Tour have changed. Sorenstam made it clear that Wie had not reached out to her to explain the not-so-mysterious walk away after 16 holes. The LPGA’s top player and most powerful voice also said she believes Wie should have shown “some respect to the sponsors,” especially since Wie played the Ginn on a sponsors’ exemption. “MacKinzie shot 89 on the last day and she was just a trooper,” Sorenstam said of MacKinzie Kline, the 15-year-old with a congenital heart defect who played in the Ginn on another sponsors’ exemption. “She finished her round and was just so proud to be out there … “That’s how you should handle a situation like that.” For complete daily coverage of the LPGA’s second major, which is quickly turning into an examination of Michelle Wie, stay tuned to WorldGolf.com. There will be full news stories and columns starting tomorrow morning and running through the last putt Sunday night. Comments:
I predict by the end of the season Michelle won't get a top 10 all year and she will not even finish the season. She will only play a couple of PGA events because she can't cut it and the Sponsers are afraid to invite her for fear of what is going on already with her and her ADVENTURES.,
It's sad to say She's finished.
Chris,
Supposedly, Bubbles is to tee it up Thursday at Bulle Rock. She is to go off the tgenth tee in the last group with two of the Kim women. I realize that the LPGA is supposed to give positions by random drawing, but it does seem ironic that Bubbles is last. Maybe the LPGA made an exception in this case so Bubbles won't be gumming up the works with her endless requests for rulings, searching for her ball in waist-high weeds, and returning to the tee to re-hit. And if she WD's again, only her group will be affected. That's assuming that she does start the tournament.
Comment from: smudge [Visitor]
Kudos to Annika. From one who has shown the ultimate in class her entire career, and to have her so pissed that she had to state what everyone wants to say, well done. I predict a flood of others now going public with their views. Seems finally the pros are going to say what they feel instead of keeping quiet so as not to hurt poor Wie. Finally. Finally. Finally. Finally we can get the press hopefully to forget about Wie until she proves herself ( which may never come) and concentrate on those that are making the LPGA an exciting tour, ie. Annika, Paula, Morgan, Nathalie, Lorena, Pak, Park, I mean they can play, and they all have class.
Chris. Didn't you write an article in the fall of 2005 praising Paula Creamer for standing up to Annika when Annika was trying to cheat. Annika did get away with it--but it seems to me that you are on record calling Annika a cheater. Could you please explain to us why you think a cheater like Annika knows anything about class and respect.
Nicely spotted Jim.
Yes let it be known. CHRIS BALDWIN CALLED ANNIKA A CHEAT. How about that!!!!
We know she didn't cheat then. I called Chris out and said it was a matter of angle. Chris was wrong then, Annika is correct now, and Michelle was wrong now.
What about early the nect year when Karrie Webb had to tell Annika that she couldn't move her ball, which resulted in a two shot penalty? Annika is supposed to know the rules better than the officials. Did Annika get caught trying to cheat then?
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