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She's got tremendous talent no doubt, but she knows she won't make any money - or lasting fame - beating the girls. She's made no secret that she wants to be the first woman to play in the Masters and she gears her schedule toward winning tournaments that will get her a free invite. I don't believe she has a chance to win it but the publicity will be enormous if she does get in. Annika Sorenstam, the best women's golfer ever, played The Colonial a couple years back, missed the cut and admitted it was too much course for her. I guess I'm really just disgusted by the publicity-grubbing stunt she's pulling.

"Annika Sorenstam, the best women's golfer ever, played The Colonial a couple years back, missed the cut and admitted it was too much course for her."

IIRC, The Colonial was the second shortest course on tour that year, which is specifically why Annika selected it. She missed the cut by five shots in a tournament that the top players don't even bother playing.

This just shows how much better the male golfers are. As great a player as Annika is, she would have to play her best golf on one of the easiest courses just to have a chance of making the cut. If Tiger or Vijay played the LPGA Tour, they would win EVERY single tournament. That's the difference.

If any woman is going to make a cut on the PGA Tour, it's probably Wie. She has the length. Whether her putting, short game, wedge game, etc. will develop as she matures remains the big question.

She's got tremendous talent no doubt, but she knows she won't make any money - or lasting fame - beating the girls. She's made no secret that she wants to be the first woman to play in the Masters and she gears her schedule toward winning tournaments that will get her a free invite. I don't believe she has a chance to win it but the publicity will be enormous if she does get in. Annika Sorenstam, the best women's golfer ever, played The Colonial a couple years back, missed the cut and admitted it was too much course for her. I guess I'm really just disgusted by the publicity-grubbing stunt she's pulling.

Well said. Wie's fame is built not on being a really good young player, because phenoms are a dime a dozen in any sport. No, she's famous for 1) being really hot at too young an age (which is not her fault), and 2) trying to become the "Jackie Robinson" of women's golf, which doesn't annoy me as long as she truly earns the mantle. But unlike Indy Car racer Danica Patrick (who had the fastest qualifying time in the 2005 Indy 500 and finished fourth), Wie doesn't seem to want to earn it; she wants it to be handed to her.

How many people are aware of the fact that despite the massive publicity Wie gets, she has never won a tournament against professional players? On the other hand, at the age of eighteen, Paula Creamer -- whom you may never have heard of -- did, and has won two LPGA events in her short career. She is second on the 2005 LPGA earnings list, trailing only Annika Sorenstam.

As I wrote in the post linked above, wake me when Wie wins a tournament against her own gender.