Michelle, Reconsider...PLEASE!

I know Michelle Wie is hurt at the moment and will be out for the next few weeks. I sincerely hope she reconsiders all this playing with the boys stuff. She has a month or so to learn from her travels the last year or so.

I say, "Michelle Wie...time to go play the Ladies!" I do not understand the infatuation here. I get it a little. She was close to making the cut once in a men's event. She's pretty; she's incredibly talented for a 16 year old; she could potentially change women's golf. But the bottom line is she hasn't changed women's golf one bit.

Tiger she ain't. Tiger forced his competitors to rethink their whole existence. Golfers work out now. They stay longer at the range. They watch what they eat. They all pay attention to what Tiger is doing even when he is not playing golf. The women don't pay attention to Michelle. Annika and Lorena are the ones to watch (and of course Natalie)...they have changed women's golf. It also looks like Karrie Webb is coming back and throwing her hat back in the ring. They all understand where their bread is buttered and Michelle should learn from them. Go win several majors on the LPGA tour...win SOMETHING...ANYTHING on the LPGA Tour and then give it a go with the men. I'm begging you!

I'll add one more thing to the Michelle comparison to Tiger thing. Earl Woods influenced Tiger in an extremely positive manner in many ways on and off the golf course. He obviously worked Tiger hard but not on the world's stage. Unless of course if you consider their backyard in California, Stanford and the US Ameteur in the early '90's the "World Stage". He yelled in his backswing, sounded a fog horn while putting, probably told him he'd never catch Nicklaus, spent thousands of hours driving him from course to course; Earl Woods gave Tiger the tools to become great; maybe even the GREATEST OF ALL TIME!

For now, Michelle is all fluff and no tools but I'll stay tuned. Believe it or not, I'm pulling for her.

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People moaning about Michelle Wie screwing up her life are out-of-bounds. It reminds me of the hand-wringing worry-warts who bemoan super-talented young men jumping to the NBA right out of high school. Nobody begrudges the talented welder or carpenter busting into the building industry even before graduating. Michelle is making an incredible living; she has the rest of her life to play against women, and earn a fraction of the purses. I say keep the skirts short and the drives long, and just do it.