Michelle Wie may very well be suffering from multiple personality disorders – she’s definitely suffering delusions of grandeur – but I say it’s time to point the finger elsewhere, if only from Wie fatigue.
Let’s say, for example, that you get fired from your high-profile job. Everybody in your chosen field knows it. Then you get fired again. And again. For really stupid stuff as well as total incompetency.
And yet some bonehead keeps offering you another job at an increasingly higher salary.
Who’s to blame here?
In this case, it’s the Legends’ Reno-Tahoe Open next week.
“I know Michelle is a great competitor and we are thrilled to have her accept our invitation to showcase her skills at our tournament,” said tournament director Michael Stearns told the media.
Oh, this is a MEN’s tournament, by the way.
Stearns is apparently the same guy who tried to put together a Mike Tyson-Vladimir Klitschko bout for the heavyweight championship.
Hell, let’s put Jose Canseco on a roster. Give David Duval a shot at the Masters. Where’s Rick Mirer?
I guess Stearns and his ilk are following the old “failure breeds success” adage.
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So the question isn't why do they keep inviting her, it's why is she still a draw?
At least the Reno is a tournament.
I'd prefer she played on a women's tour, but at least she will be playing umm 2 rounds of competitive golf.
On hearing the news, the LGU said they had been considering a last-minute invitation. "We planned to monitor her performance in this week's Evian tournament in France," Susan Simpson, the LGU's tournament director, said. "If she did well, we were going to get in touch, but now that she's agreed to play with the men that's presumably the end of it."
How could they monitor her performance when she was never scheduled to play in the Evian Tournament? So, watch how she performs and then at the last minute offer her an invite to the Ricoh?! Duh, whos on first...I am confused.
Tim, I didn't realize that you were a licensed shrink and a blogger...wow, a double major in college!
By July 31, Michelle will be older than Paula Creamer was when Paula made history: Creamer is the youngest golfer to win a multi-round LPGA event.
Michelle apparently is not at Evian, which would have been her last chance at erasing Paula's record.
When Michelle failed to win this recent tournament, her shot at that piece of golf history fizzled.
It's ironic that Paula Creamer and Morgan Pressel are LPGA record holders.
Paula is the youngest to win an LPGA event (18 years, nine months, 11 days)
Morgan is the youngest to win an LPGA major, at 18 years and 313 days. The Women's British Open is the last major this year that Wie could win.
Even better, Paula and Morgan are probably the two golfers who annoy the Wie Warriors the most.
-George
Tim, that's a rhetorical but since you answered correctly, you may go to the head of the class. lol
Capitalism is our system and feeding delusions of grandeur is its forte. What channel did you say the LRTO was on? And where is that d@mn popcorn?
The people on both sides of the fence are more alike than they realize - they are obsessed with her, albeit with polar opposite reasons.
Find something else to worry about...Puhleeze!
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" when in the last week there have been some 9 blogs and around 120 posts on MW and her DQ and only 10 blogs and around 25 posts on a superb Open - even those mainly castigating Norman. What gives? That's what I'm worried about.
Michael Stearns has been a wheeler and dealer with IMG for almost twenty years. He was appointed to the position of tournament director of the Reno-Tahoe Legends about five months ago.
Attendance at golf events near gambling meccas has never set the world on fire, even in Las Vegas. There are simply too many other things to entertain the casual golf fan while in Vegas or Reno. Slots, table games, shows and getting drunk come readily to mind.
So, since Stearns' main concern is the bottom line, he likely figures that if Bubbles can attract even a thousand additional spectators at $15 admission each for the two days she will be playing, plus about that much in concession sales, the take will be $50K more than it would be otherwise.
He said last evening on the Golf Channel that he firmly believes that Bubbles would be around for the weekend. If he said that with a straight face is not known, but if he is serious, he's the only one who is.
Finally, no one should be surprised that his first official act as director was to issue an exemption to Bubbles. He was also the tournament director of the Samsung who gave Bubbles her undeserved freebie to that event last year.
Alex USMC 1969-73
No one in their right mind believes she hasn't the talent. But she is a MAJOR MAJOR head case if she thinks that even if she WERE to win the lottery and MAKE a PGA cut, it would actually do ANYTHING but further DEMEAN the women's game.
I want to know what happened to the Wie-Heads that supported her contention that she could someday COMPETE and WIN on the PGA tour and the MASTERS!?
Listen, she'll perform a MIRACLE at Reno if she's able to keep it UNDER 80 for either of the first two rounds - even WITH the atmospheric advantage. Let's all try to live in the real world here people.
So Michelle here is my advice, enjoy yourself! Take a little paid vacation in the Sierras with luxurious accommodations, just relax and take it easy while playing a few rounds of golf. Meet some really interesting people during your stay and take advantage of the wonderful PGA Tour perks available at the event. Legendary buffets I hear.
After you are well rested from your stay in the mountains with a beautiful setting, travel up to Canada and kick some serious LPGA booty. Yep, after Montreux go hang out with the LPGA Tour gals at the Comfort Inn, where at least they offer a free breakfast bar in the lobby.
Did I mention donating my right arm for an opportunity like this? You folks can't be serious?
PS: I will need my right arm for playing golf, I wonder if my first born child would count?
Tim, I didn't realize that Wie has a speech writer also.
Wie doesn't sound like she is planning to try to become a PGA member. Her game looks like it might be back to where she was when she was 15 or 16. If so, she should be able to put up some reasonable numbers nex week. She would have preferred to play in the Womens British, but that did not seem a likely possibility, so she accepted the Reno invitation.
There is no pressure on her to make the cut, and she is not putting any on herself. At this point, a score withing 10 of the cut line would not be a bad result. I predict that she will do better against the men next week than she did against the women in some of her events last year.
I see that you're back from your re-hab. As usual, your post makes little sense.
In one breath you state that if Bubbles only misses the cut by ten strokes at the Renoe-Tahoe, you would consider that as an acceptable performance.
However, in the next breath you say that you confidently predict that Buubles will do better against the men than she did against the women earlier in the year.
Huh? Although Bubbles did have two MC's and a DQ to add to resume of alphabet
soup, she never missed a cut by ten strokes.
Alex USMC 1969-73