I’ve been to driving ranges around the world. I’ve taken my practice hacks on the best driving range/practice facility in the known universe (the PGA Learning Center in Port St. Lucie), some spectacularly good ones (the new made-over Pelican Hill’s is hard to top) and plenty of lame ones where you’re just hitting into a net.
In all these driving range experiences, I’ve never come across thick, dehabilitating, beat-you-up rough.
You know, the kind of rough Michelle Wie apparently encountered in a sneak attack on Stanford’s driving range. (I’ve been to Stanford’s range years ago, but maybe I just missed it).
If you haven’t been paying attention to the latest in the weird world of Wie - and let’s face it, even Wie Warriors are having a hard time feigning interest these days - that is what knocked Wie out of this week’s Safeway International at Superstition Mountain in the greater Phoenix-Scottsdale resort corridor. Wie found a portion of Stanford’s range that is more fearsome than the killer from No Country for Old Men.
Straight from a press release from Jill Smoller of the William Morris Agency: Michelle reinjured her left wrist when she accidentally hit a ball that was embedded in a thick rough at the range at Stanford University on March 13.
I don’t know what’s more quizzically comical: That Wie’s ball was “embedded” or that she “accidentally” hit it. OK, I do know which.
How do you accidentally hit a golf ball? Does it just jump onto your club face and start taunting you until you swing? Is this a Poltergeist issue where some power is forcing her to move her arms out of her control (besides, alien-swing-stealer David Leadbetter of course). If so I think the Department of Homeland Security needs to be consulted.
I know Team Wie thinks they desperately need a platoon of PR agents. But maybe that’s how you come up with loony stuff like this. It’s never a simple explanation with Wie. Instead she’s being attacked by a driving range. Accidentally.
That sounds about perfect.
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Jason Scott Deegan:
The Accidental Golfer:
Katharine Dyson:
Kiel Christianson:
She isn't a golfer. She's as much a golfer as Paris Hilton is an actress. Right now, she's famous for being famous. She hasn't accomplished ANYTHING.
She still might, but the Wie Warriors shouldn't hold their breath....
Please explain the logic of a player who has wrists that will never be good again, practicing out of heavy rough on a driving range. The report seems to try to explain that at some point in time a ball had become embedded and grass had grown over the ball which laid in wait to ambush the poor clueless Stanford freshman.
With this last story, I have finally been beat into submission...long live the Wie Warriors!
They are obviously going to milk this fiasco until the cows come home.
These people have more nerve than a gang of burglars; more nerve than the guy who ate the first oyster.
I realize that Bubbles has a lot of true believers in her schtick, but honestly folks, does anyone anywhere still give credence to these charlatans?
Alex USMC 1969-73
It looks like Papa B.J. knew what he was doing when the Nike & Sony contracts did not hinge on Bubbles performance. I wonder how much longer the board members of both companies are going to call in their chips. The wrist injuries could go on forever. Bubbles seems to have lost all competitive spirit (if she ever had any) and the next thing we might read is that she is pregnant and dropping out of Stanford. Help, I have fallen down and can't get up!.
It looks as though Bubbles has already dropped out of Stanford.
Dot Wong euphemistically referred to her "taking a leave of absence."
However, at all the institutions of higher learning with which I am familiar, when a student does not sign up for continuing study at the conclusion of one quarter or semester, he or she is effectively dropped from the rolls. If that student decides to continue study at the same institution at a later date, he or she must re-enroll and have his or her credits validated.
As far as her ever becoming pregnant, that would probably be a very unlikely eventuality, what with BJ and Bo hovering over her every move.
Alex USMC 1969-73