Michelle Wie collapse no fun to watch, unless you're her pro-am partner

I confess I am not a Michelle Wie fan – is it obvious? – but even I am pained at seeing her go through this prolonged period of humiliation. She is, after all, only 17 years old.

There was the collapse at the John Deere last year when she was carted off on a stretcher, finishing dead last against the men twice in Switzerland and Pennsylvania, failing to break 80 at the Casio and finishing 17th in a field of 20 at the Samsung.

Then came the Ginn Tribute, when she flat out quit. She cited a wrist injury, but it’s hard to believe she didn’t bend the rules to avoid being a victim of the LPGA’s 88 rule, which stipulates non-LPGA members who don’t break 88 become ineligible not only for that tournament, but the rest of the season.

I guess when she went out to hit practice balls the next day, she was under doctor’s orders.

Wie has been defiant in the face of criticism from low-key Annika Sorenstam, who never heard from Wie despite being the hostess of the tournament.

Then she was called on the carpet by LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens for her behavior at the LPGA Championship’s pro-am.

No one is saying what happened, but gosh I wonder if it might have something with her arrogant and haughty attitude.

The tide has been turning against her for a while now. Former Wie-bots are now Wie critics.

People are starting to see her for what she is: a selfish teenager who puts her own interests above all else. Making her image worse is it seems her moves are being cynically choreographed by a Nike corporate team determined to recoup its obscene investment in her. Wie is going along all too willingly on this road to ruin.

Yes, I feel sorry for her. And, like Wie herself, I won’t apologize for it.