Tag Archives: Michelle Wie
Wie leads Tres Marias Championship
Michelle Wie shot 68 in the second round of the Tres Marias Championship in Mexico to take a one shot lead over Ai Miyazato and Brittany Lincicome. Wie got off to a great start with seven birdies in the first 12 holes. After a bogey on the 14th, Wie made a birdie on the 16th [...]
Pettersen, Hur lead Honda-PTT LPGA Thailand
Suzann Pettersen and M. J. Hur shot opening round 66s to take a one shot lead at the Honda-PTT LPGA Thailand at the Siam Country Club. Pettersen was bogey-free in the first round. After a birdie on the first hole, she made eight straight pars. She started the back nine with a birdie and finished [...]
LPGA set to start 2010 season
The LPGA gears up for the first tournament of the 2010 season at the Siam Country Club in Thailand. The Honda-ptt LPGA Thailand kicks off with defending champion Lorena Ochoa ready to take on the best players in the world as they try and knock her from the top seed in the Rolex Rankings. The [...]
Wie gets first LPGA win at Lorena Ochoa Invitational
Michelle Wie won her first LPGA tournament with a final round 69 at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational to beat Paula Creamer by two shots at the Guadalajara Country Club in Mexico. Wie, who shared the lead with Cristie Kerr at the start of the day, had to fight off a great charge by Creamer, who [...]
Kerr, Wie tied at Lorena Ochoa Invitational
Cristie Kerr and Michelle Wie are tied for the lead at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational at the Guadalajara Country Club in Mexico. The pair hold a one-shot lead over Jiyai Shin, Paula Creamer and Song-Hee Kim heading into the final round. Kerr shot a bogey-free 67 on Saturday to take the lead at 10-under par. [...]
Shin opens 3-shot lead at Lorena Ochoa Invitational
Jiyai Shin shot 66 in the second round at the Guadalajara Country Club to take a three shot lead over Paula Creamer and Michelle Wie in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational. Shin, who currently leads the Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year races, moved into the lead with a bogey-free round. She made [...]
Preview: Lorena Ochoa Invitational
The LPGA returns to North America for the Lorena Ochoa Invitational, presented by Banames and Corona Light, at the Guadalajara Country Club in Mexico. Last year, Angela Stanford made two birdies on the back nine to beat Annika Sorenstam and Brittany Lang by one shot. This year, Stanford will have to fight back 36 of [...]
Moodie leads Navistar LPGA Classic
Janice Moodie shot an eight-under par, 64, to lead the Navistar LPGA Classic after the first round of play at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Capitol Hill. Fourteen-year-old amateur Alexis Thompson is in second place at eight-under par. Moodie was bogey-free in the first round. She started on the 10th hole and made birdies [...]
Round Up: Kraft Nabisco Championship
What a finish at the LPGA TOUR’s first major! Brittany Lincicome eagles the final hole to leap frog Kristy McPherson and Cristie Kerr and win the Kraft Nabisco Championship. It was a three player race all day as McPherson and Kerr traded the top spot until Kerr’s double-bogey on the 15th hole. Lincicome used her [...]
LPGA season snapshot
The LPGA TOUR season begins February 12th for the SBS Open at Turtle Bay. This year the LPGA begins with much anticipation as the TOUR looks to move forward without Annika Sorenstam. Michelle Wie will help pick the TOUR up as she gets ready for her first season as an LPGA member after earning playing [...]
Wie to enter LPGA Q-school
Could this be hitting bottom for the once highly touted teenager? Or, is this a new beginning? However you think, Michelle Wie will play in the LPGA qualifying tournament at Mission Hills in Rancho Mirage, California. It is a familiar course to Wie as it is where she played in the final group at the [...]
Wie to play at Legends Reno-Tahoe Open
Is this a publicity opportunity or is the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open a tune up for the CN Canadian Women’s Open? Needing $80,000 to earn exempt status on the LPGA Tour, Michelle Wie will tee up on the PGA Tour’s Legends Reno-Tahoe Open. Wie has one exemption left on the LPGA season and needs to finish [...]
Michelle Wie posts top 10 in Europe
Michelle Wie finished her best tournament in a few years with a sixth place finish, seven shots back, of winner Amy Yang, another 18-year-old who nabs her first win as a professional and second on the Ladies European Tour. Yes, first pro win and second on a pro tour. Yang made news a couple of [...]
Michelle Wie playing in Germany
The talk has gone for Michelle Wie, for the most part, as her game struggled last year. She didn’t play well in the Fields Open on this year’s LPGA Tour but she is making some news over in Germany. Wie is tied for seventh place on the Ladies European Tour’s HypoVereinsbank Ladies German Open, trailing [...]
Miyazato looks to add major to great season