 |
Updated Daily | |
|
|
||
|
       |
Similarities between John Daly and Michelle Wie? You bet
Thursday October 25, 2007 | 14:43:18 196 words, 2633 views
Yes, it’s true there are similarities between Big John Daly, the chain-smoking big guy with the liquor and gambling problem and Michelle Wie, the presumptuous, would-be superstar. Both are fan favorites, partly because they hit it a mile. Both get far too many exemptions. And neither can play golf very well at the moment. Daly didn’t have much to say to anyone after the Ginn sur Mer Classic pro-am Wednesday. He’s had another mediocre year, in which the two-time major winner’s best finish was a 16th at the Buick Open. “It just baffles me, to be able to hit the ball as far as he does with the talent and the touch he has and for him to play as poorly as he does,” Mark Calcavecchia told seattlepi.com. “That just blows my mind. I don’t see how he can play that bad.” Wie, of course, has fallen off a cliff this year. She probably wishes she had alcohol, cigarettes and a crazy spouse to blame. Daly is 41, Wie still a teenager. Daly at least has some big wins under his big belt. Wie has won nothing but scorn. Here’s one more common denominator: Squandered talent. 
Comments:
Comment from: Judge Smails [Visitor]
Tim,
Bubbles never hit the ball a mile. And have you checked her distance stats lately? 
10/26/07 @ 13:15
Comment from: Alex [Visitor]
· http://Zandrabelle@cox.net
Judge Smails,
Those 300+ yard drives by Bubbles are nothing but myths. When I saw Bubbles play in person for about seven or eight holes at the 2005 Publinks, her drives averaged about 245 yards, and she was outdriven by her playing opponents on every hole I saw.
10/26/07 @ 14:12
Comment from: Judge Smails [Visitor]
I believe it, Alex.
10/27/07 @ 19:44
Comment from: Tom [Visitor]
You'd have to grasp at some abstract analogies to compare those two. Wie's booming 300 three hundred yard drives proved to be a figment of her father B.J's marketing imagination; Daly's drives are things of marvel. Wie is a tall svelte ectomorph while Daly is..well a product of beer and Hooter's hot wings. About the only thing the two have in common is a track record of falling apart emotionally, she on the golf course (nerves) and he both on and off the golf course.
10/28/07 @ 13:53
Comment from: Judge Smails [Visitor]
As I've said before, it's very easy to paint someone as a 300-plus hitter. Everyone plays all different types of holes, and if you happen to be hitting downhill and/or downwind and/or with a baked out fairway, you can pick up an extra 50 yards easily. What happened with Bubbles was that on just such holes, her ball would come to rest 300-plus yards down the fairway (of course, the guys would have hit it 400 in those situations). Then, all the marketers had to do was say, "She hits 300 yard drives!"
Of course, it's true -- technically. I also can propel myself faster than any sprinter alive . . . on a bicycle.
10/29/07 @ 11:51
Comment from: Wunderkind [Visitor]
By this time next year, Wie will be nothing but a foot note...
10/29/07 @ 17:15
Comment from: Shanks [Member]
· http://www.travelgolf.com/blogs/shanks
Conversely, I witnessed Wie playing at the 2006 LPGA Championship at Bulle Rock knocking it on the 600 yard par 5 11th hole with a 5 wood 2nd shot.
Now I agree with Alex that 300 yards is not the norm for Wie's drives, but on occasion she can put it out there. Well, at least when she hits it straight, which isn't happening with great frequency at present.
10/30/07 @ 07:44
Comment from: Judge Smails [Visitor]
Shanks,
Again, I'd bet dollars to donuts that the conditions played a huge role in that.
10/30/07 @ 11:35
Comment from: Alex [Visitor]
· http://Zandrabelle@cox.net
Judge Smails,
A guy from our firm returned just today from a vacation to Singapore. While there, he and his wife tooka road trip across the causeway into Malaysia. They went by tour bus and then taxicabs to Kuala Lumpur. On the way they saw several large billboards sporting the picture of, you guessed it, Michelle Wie. They couldn't read the captions in Malay, so they asked the cab driver who was that pictured on the billboards. The answer was always that "she is a champion golfer from KOREA." They couldn't seem to explain that she was actually a US citizen. Is the William Morris agengy guilty of false advertising?
11/02/07 @ 18:30
Comment from: Big E [Visitor]
Alex,
I read that part of the reason Nike, Sony & Omega signed MW to $10+ Mil endorsement deals was to make her the face of (Nike, Sony, Omega, etc.) in Asia and ROW. I presume her face is plastered all over Asia hawking various products. Since her parents are from Korea, WM Agency isn't lying 100%. You'll also find American actors hawking unorthodox products in Japan and elsewhere in Asia.
11/03/07 @ 13:42
Comment from: Alex [Visitor]
· http://Zandrabelle@cox.net
Big E,
From what I know, the William Morris Agency treats sports and especially golf as a sidelight. Their main interests are movie stars and rock and rap groups. The fact that promote Miss Wie as a "champion golfer" and "from Korea" demonstrates that they are not very interested in the truth in their ads. It would be interesting to see if any of these ads are being displayed in Korea, where the people surely would be aware of their inaccuracy, and where they have an abundance of their own young female professional golfers, most of whom have been far more successful than Miss Wie.
11/04/07 @ 08:19 Leave a comment: |
 |
My Latest posts
Check it out!
Misc |
||||||||
 |
Add GolfPublisher.com articles/headlines to your web site |
| © Copyright 1997-2008, WorldGolf.com, LLC. For questions, comments or suggestions on any of our network publications, Contact Us! |
|
Chris Baldwin:
Jennifer Mario:
Kiel Christianson:
Brandon Tucker:
William K. Wolfrum:
