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.
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.
Preferrably at the same time?
(frightful look around to see if the wife heard that)
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.
;-)
;-)
Nice set of pictures. Anna can be sexy, but Maria is stone-beautiful!
The second and third pictures are incredible!
Hey, you finally made it!
I do think Sharapova is quite attractive. (I give the nod to Anna, however.)
Wow ........ great picture of her.
"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.
Maria will be even more attractive, I suppose, in a few more years as experience will add to her expressions.
Oh, pashaw. Look at
post 33. It's her eyes.
They are hypnotic!
posts # 10 and 23
Very pretty and demure.
Oh, I was hoping she meant Anna got nekkid. ;o)
I love threads like this one. :)
Um, did you think of
"camel" because of the guy
in the camel's leg?
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!
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.
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
And you are a perv. But we love you anyway.
Is that you on the right?
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