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Will Michelle Wie be the next Anna Kournikova?
TravelGolf.com ^ | Saturday April 30, 2005 | Jennifer Mario

Posted on 07/21/2005 7:50:18 AM PDT by theFIRMbss

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 and takes notice.

So maybe Michelle does risk becoming the next Anna Kournikova—a media darling who's all sizzle and no steak. That’s apparently a risk she’s willing to take. If it doesn’t bother her, why let it bother you? For one thing, the book hasn’t been written on her yet. How did coach Pat Summitt turn the University of Tennessee's Lady Vols into the best women's college basketball team of all time? By having them practice against guys. Michelle isn't exactly wasting the best years of her life here, fellas.

As far as the argument goes that another, better female should get the bid first? Well, Michelle is still opening that door. One thing at a time.

Meanwhile, let the girl play. She’s darn fun to watch.


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: anna; golf; kournikova; michelle; tennis; wie
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To: hflynn
give me ring when Michelle qualifies for a mens PGA tournament without a sponsor's exemption

If memory serves me correctly, she already qualified as an alternate to this year's US Open. If she improves only slightly, she'll likely qualify for the field next year.

81 posted on 07/21/2005 9:01:47 AM PDT by kevkrom (WARNING: If you're not sure whether or not it's sarcasm, it probably is.)
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To: flashbunny
Can't we have both?

Preferrably at the same time?

(frightful look around to see if the wife heard that)

82 posted on 07/21/2005 9:17:19 AM PDT by hattend (Alaska....in a time warp all it's own!)
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To: kevkrom
If memory serves me correctly, she already qualified as an alternate to this year's US Open. If she improves only slightly, she'll likely qualify for the field next year.

Nope.

However, she still has a chance to play with the men at Pinehurst because she finished in a three-way tie for sixth and was declared the second alternate after tournament officials were unable to have a three-way playoff for the position.

A playoff between Wie, Andrew Feldmann and Norman Asao, both of Honolulu, could not be played because neither man was at Turtle Bay Resort after Wie finished. U.S. Golf Association official Stephen Perry said because Wie was the only player left, she received the second alternate spot.

83 posted on 07/21/2005 9:28:41 AM PDT by hflynn ( Soros wouldn't make any sense even if he spelled his name backwards)
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To: cyborg
Hey, where's my ping?

;-)

84 posted on 07/21/2005 11:37:38 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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To: cyborg; PBRSTREETGANG
Sorry...... I just saw it!

;-)

Nice set of pictures. Anna can be sexy, but Maria is stone-beautiful!

85 posted on 07/21/2005 11:39:31 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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To: cyborg

The second and third pictures are incredible!


86 posted on 07/21/2005 11:41:21 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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To: beyond the sea

Hey, you finally made it!

I do think Sharapova is quite attractive. (I give the nod to Anna, however.)


87 posted on 07/21/2005 11:42:05 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

Wow ........ great picture of her.


88 posted on 07/21/2005 11:44:16 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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To: laceybrookesdad
>Michelle will impact the LPGA like Tiger has on the PGA
"Kournikova ... dazzled the world at age 13 and 14 in international junior tennis, winning many tournaments including the 1995 Orange Bowl and the 1995 Italian Open. Anna Kournikova ended 1995 as the Junior European Champion and as Junior World Champion. The Orange Bowl is an annual college football game that is usually played on January 1 in Miami, Florida. ..."

Maybe. Remember
that as a junior Anna
was as big a star

as Hingis (or more).
But around 16 or so
her tennis focus

somehow changed. No one
has ever pinned it down, but
right around that time

she started dating
a pro hockey player [!] and
you've got to wonder

if winning tennis
existentially thrilled her
to the same extent

as hot hockey sex.
Sooner or later Michelle
will transition to

a full-grown woman
and we'll have to see just how
sex affects her golf.

89 posted on 07/21/2005 11:44:47 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: PBRSTREETGANG; cyborg
You like that sultry (easy) look. I do too, but I prefer the Grace Kelly, Greer Garson look......... beautiful, elegant, and intelligent looking.

Maria will be even more attractive, I suppose, in a few more years as experience will add to her expressions.

90 posted on 07/21/2005 11:48:04 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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To: cyborg
>The only reason why Anna K. is considered to be more pretty is because she takes her clothes off

Oh, pashaw. Look at
post 33. It's her eyes.
They are hypnotic!

91 posted on 07/21/2005 11:49:06 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: cyborg
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1164827/posts

posts # 10 and 23

Very pretty and demure.

92 posted on 07/21/2005 11:51:50 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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To: TheBigB
>WHERE???? WHEN???? HOW DID I MISS THIS?!?!?!?!?!


93 posted on 07/21/2005 11:54:42 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: theFIRMbss

Oh, I was hoping she meant Anna got nekkid. ;o)


94 posted on 07/21/2005 11:58:05 AM PDT by TheBigB (My train of thought is still boarding at the station.)
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To: theFIRMbss

I love threads like this one. :)


95 posted on 07/21/2005 11:58:59 AM PDT by kesg
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To: llevrok
>I'd walk a mile, for a camel


Um, did you think of
"camel" because of the guy
in the camel's leg?

96 posted on 07/21/2005 11:59:59 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: kesg
>I love threads like this one. :)

Every now and then,
I put up "serious" threads . . .
They get, like, ten hits . . .

On the other hand,
this teenage-girl-talk thread will
hit a hundred soon!

97 posted on 07/21/2005 12:03:17 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: Fierce Allegiance; Sam's Army; Jersey Republican Biker Chick

Already passed her in my book.  I mean, yeah, I felt a little hinky when I found out she was only 15, but that bar got obliterated when I found out that Stephanie chick from Lazytown was only 14.  The dye's been cast, ya are what cha are.

 

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

98 posted on 07/21/2005 12:20:57 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: Owl_Eagle
"The dye's been cast, ya are what cha are."

And you are a perv. But we love you anyway.

99 posted on 07/21/2005 12:28:54 PM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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To: Owl_Eagle

Is that you on the right?


100 posted on 07/21/2005 12:33:45 PM PDT by Sam's Army (Would the Professionally Offended just go home and get drunk, or something?"--Tax-chick)
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