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After years in spotlight, Michelle Wie wins first pro tournament Breakthrough comes at LPGA's Lorena Ochoa Invitational in MexicoBy Alan Shipnuck, Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated Published: November 15, 2009 The Michelle Wie era has, at long last, begun. After years of injury and controversy, too much hype and money and not enough birdies, Wie won her first pro tournament Sunday afternoon at the LPGA's Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Guadalajara, Mexico. Typical of Wie's highly melodramatic career, the win didn't come easily, as she survived a final round dogfight with a half-dozen of the game's biggest names, ultimately making five straight...

Michelle Wie's eighth start in a PGA Tour event will not end in her first made cut. Wie shot a second-round 80 in the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open to finish at 9 over par through 36 holes. The cut will be at around even par by the time play ends Friday afternoon. Wie shot an opening-round 73, 1-over par. But a quintuple-bogey nine on the eighth hole (her 17th of the day) ended any hopes of Wie surviving to play the weekend at the par-72 Montreux Golf and Country Club.

Michelle Wie returns to playing tournament golf with the professional men this week, and given her propensity to produce drama of all sorts, it should be interesting. We know this: She'll have somebody baby-sitting her while she signs her scorecard. Wie learned yet another lesson the hard way two weeks ago when she was disqualified from the LPGA Tour's State Farm Classic after forgetting to sign her scorecard after the second round. At this week's PGA Tour Legends Reno-Tahoe Open, it will be the scores on the card that will create the buzz, positive or not. Wie, 18, is competing...

Wie, who has played in the PGA Tour event at the Waialae Country Club in Honolulu every year since 2004, did not receive one of the four sponsor exemptions... she wasn't ready for professional golf. Two of the Sony Open sponsor exemptions will still go to Hawaii teenagers.

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. -- Michelle Wie withdrew from the Ginn Tribute on Thursday after playing much of the first round with bandaged wrists and shooting 14 over par through 16 holes. After Wie bogeyed the par-4 seventh, the 17-year-old star from Hawaii told an LPGA tour official: "We're not going to play anymore." [snip] Wie had not played competitive golf since missing the cut at the PGA Tour Sony Open in January. She had been recovering from wrist injuries.

Michelle Wie on Friday missed the cut in last place at the European Masters -- 22 shots behind co-leaders Bradley Dredge, Andrew McLardy and Marcel Siem. "I am still in shock. I just couldn't get any of my shots to go," Wie said after a round of 8-over 79. "I don't know why it was. I don't even know what sport I was playing today." Having now missed the cut in nine of the 10 men's events she has played worldwide, Wie will give it another shot next week at the 84 Lumber Classic on the PGA TOUR. Friday, Wie...

*** Make sure to watch the Golf Channel interview below that aired on Game Central last Saturday night ... Tiger Woods for President someday??? ... Rush says probably not. BEGIN TRANSCRIPT (from his Monday Jan. 23rd radio show) Hey, greetings, folks, and welcome! Rush Limbaugh back in the saddle once again after a week away in Palm Springs, California, the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. I want to thank... I tell you, the people out there, I told the people when I left that one of the reasons I was excited to be going out there was that those are my...

With 5 holes left, Michelle Wie is 8 shots behind the leader at plus 1, with plus 3 being the projected cut. go here for current leaderboard http://tgcx.mirror-image.net/core.aspx?page=10100&select=9552&select2=0&select3=99

PALM DESERT – Michelle Wie's pro debut made her look like an amateur Sunday when she was disqualified for taking a bad drop from the bushes in the third round of the Samsung World Championship. Talk about a rude welcome less than two weeks after turning pro. First, Annika Sorenstam blew away the field to win by eight shots, even with a double bogey on the last hole. Then, the 16-year-old Wie no sooner had signed for a 74 to finish fourth – $53,126 – that LPGA Tour officials took her out to the seventh hole to discuss a drop...

Michelle Wie will turn pro sometime between now and Oct. 11 -- her 16th birthday -- perhaps as early as next week. In doing so, she will become the world's highest-paid female golfer. According to sources involved in the negotiations who requested anonymity, Wie will sign endorsement deals with three companies (one believed to be Nike) worth an estimated $8 million. Adding in tournament appearance fees and other endorsements, the Hawaiian teen's compensation for her first year as a pro is expected to reach $10 million -- not counting what she wins on the course. She also will enlist the...

Will Michelle Wie be the next Anna Kournikova? My fellow bloggers Doug Carey and Jay Flemma have been talking a lot lately about Michelle Wie and her sponsor exemptions. Should she get them? Should she accept them? Is it nothing more than a publicity stunt? Yada yada yada. Well maybe it is nothing more than a publicity stunt. But guys, don’t you get it? Women’s golf needs publicity. Really badly. Annika’s up there breaking every record, winning 59 tournaments and no one’s batting an eyelash. But put a 15 year old on the PGA tour and suddenly everyone sits up...

Doesn't look like Michelle Wie is going to the Masters. She's down 5 holes with 7 to play in the quarterfinals of the Amateur Public Links Championship. http://www.usapl.org/scoring/MatchCard_59.html

BRIMLEY, Mich. -- Michelle Wie felt she had nothing to prove, then went ahead and did it anyway. Michelle Wie had three bogeys and a birdie in her impressive first round. Wie, the 13-year-old sensation widely felt to be the future of women's golf, showed she can play with the men in Thursday's first round of the Bay Mills Open Players Championship, the final event of the Canadian Tour season. The long-hitting Wie, whose drives were frequently over 300 yards at Wild Bluff Golf Course, had a birdie and three bogeys in a round of 2-over 74. That put her...