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Michelle Wie
Michelle Sung Wie was born on October 11, 1989 in Honolulu, Hawaii. She began playing golf at the age of four years old. When she was a mere ten years old, while golfing at the Olomana Golf Links, she shot a personal best which was sixty-four in eighteen holes from the 5,400 yard tees. That same year she became the youngest player in history to qualify for the United States Golf Association Open amateur championship. She later advanced to play at the Woman's US Amateur Public Links Championship. Wie was winning nearly every junior event she entered by the age of 11. She turned pro in October of 2005. She played her first event as a professional in the Samsung World Championship, an LPGA event open only to 20 top professional ladies golfers, and was initially credited with a fourth-place finish and $53,000.00. However, shortly after signing her scorecard, rules officials were alerted by a journalist of a possible infraction of the rules on the seventh hole of the third round. It was decided that Wie had made an illegal drop by dropping the ball closer to the hole than its original lie. Because Wie signed her scorecard without reporting the rules infraction, she was charged with a violation of the rules of golf for signing an incorrect scorecard and was disqualified from the tournament. Had she reported the infraction, she would have instead merely been penalized two strokes. She is very dedicated to her sport and plays golf for about four hours a day on weekdays and seven hours a day on weekends. She is very close to her family and her father served as her caddie through most of 2003. The family hired a professional caddie for the PGA Sony Open. She advanced to the semifinals of the same event two years later (2002), the youngest semifinalist ever in a USGA amateur championship. At the 2002 LPGA Takefuji Classic, Wie became the youngest ever to Monday qualify for an LPGA Tour event. Her appearance in the 2003 Kraft Nabisco Championship included a round of 66, tying the record for low amateur round in an LPGA major. Wie has also attempted to qualify for the PGA Sony Open, playing in Monday qualifying rounds. In 2003, she finished tied for 47th in a field comprised of 97 men, and playing from the same tees as those men. Tom Lehman, who played with Wie in a pro-am, bestowed the nickname "Big Wiesy" (rhymes with "Big Easy") on her because her swing resembles that of Ernie Els. Tidbits
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