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Alex [Visitor] in response to: Wie makes the cut! Wie makes the cut!

Alex [Visitor] — Mon, 08 May 2006 16:38:26 +0000

Sean Casey, What is your opinion of the three Asian amateurs that went lower than Miss Wie?

Sean Casey [Visitor] in response to: Wie makes the cut! Wie makes the cut!

Sean Casey [Visitor] — Mon, 08 May 2006 16:33:34 +0000

Just wondering where Alex is visiting from, outer space?

What a jaundiced, not to mention totally false, impression you have of Asian golf.

You commented: "Tim, How could any tournament be less prestigious that the SK Telecom? The Korean players were mostly part time pros or amateurs with virtually no credentials. The rest, with the exception of KJ Choi, the defending champion, were large nobodies; nice guys but nobodies just the same. Of course, the field did include the immortal Ty Tryon. With Ty in there, that really deepened the field. Sure."

This was an Asian Tour event and although some of the leading players - Thongchai Jaidee, Shiv Kapur, Thaworn Wiratchant - were missing the field certainly was not full of nobodies.

Jeev Milkha Singh, who finished joint second, recently won a European Tour co-sanctioned event - beating Henrik Stenson, Paul Casey etc in the process - and winner Prom Meesawat, just 21, is a two time junior world champion with great potential who will be coming your way soon.

Australian Andrew Buckle, a regular on the Asian Tour but not yet a winner, was absent...oh yes, he was in America winning first time up on the Nationwide Tour. Not bad for a 'nobody' who played the SK Telecom Open last year.

Also, there is a vibrant Korean circuit with prize money, in some cases, betterting that on offer on the Asian, Japan and Nationwide Tours.

The majority of Korean male golfers, unlike their sisters who are cleaning up on the LPGA Tour, are not good travellers and feel comfortable plying their trade at home. That should not be used as a guide to their talent and just because they are not known to an American audience does not make them 'nobodies'.

As for Michelle Wie, her ambition is slightly loftier than writing anonymous blogs. She puts her talent to the test and, last week at least, she passed pretty handsomely and made a lot of Koreans very proud and the sponsors very happy (news of her making the cut led international sports broadcasts.

More power to her drives.

Alex [Visitor] in response to: Wie makes the cut! Wie makes the cut!

Alex [Visitor] — Sun, 07 May 2006 16:46:22 +0000

Change that headline from "Wie makes the cut" to "Wie shoots 74, ties for 35th in prestigious SK Telecom!"

Alex [Visitor] in response to: Wie makes the cut! Wie makes the cut!

Alex [Visitor] — Sun, 07 May 2006 13:51:57 +0000

Brian, I'm not your English teacher, but it's obvious that you could use one. You have some corrections to do in your correction.

Brian [Visitor] in response to: Wie makes the cut! Wie makes the cut!

Brian [Visitor] — Sun, 07 May 2006 01:08:01 +0000

Check this out: an article by Rishi Narain, a former Asian Games gold medallist.

Wie-ing for equal honours

Brian [Visitor] in response to: Wie makes the cut! Wie makes the cut!

Brian [Visitor] — Sat, 06 May 2006 23:16:51 +0000

Correction: haters not hater's
I had to this before Alex, our English teacher scold me for misspelling.

Brian [Visitor] in response to: Wie makes the cut! Wie makes the cut!

Brian [Visitor] — Sat, 06 May 2006 23:13:40 +0000

All of Wie hater's like Alex, Baldie and the likes are now so horrified by the thought of Wie winning the tournament, they, under the direction of legal mind of Alex, will issue a class action law suit against SK Telecom claiming that SK Telecom has given Wie unwarranted advantage over other male players by allowing her to play on easy golf course so that Wie could not only make a cut but also terrorize male populations at the hint of Wie winning.

Alex [Visitor] in response to: Wie makes the cut! Wie makes the cut!

Alex [Visitor] — Sat, 06 May 2006 15:41:19 +0000

Wie makes the cut! Wie makes the cut! I like it! The chant of the Wie Warriors. An alternate sing-song might be, "We're number 17! We're number 17!" Sorry, make that "We're T17! We're T17!" Since the third round of the major SK Telecom has been rained out, it will be interesting to see some of the rosy speculation that will emanate from the Wie-wie's. An example might be "She was just getting used to the course and she surely would have shot at least a 67 and put herself into position to win on Sunday." Then they might take that projection and run with it. The Wie nuts will blame the rain for her not finishing in the top five. Perhaps the groveling, fawning sycophants at SK Telecom will just award her first prize and her first "victory" as a pro.