Posted on 05/31/2007 10:10:29 AM PDT by NittanyLion
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. -- Michelle Wie withdrew from the Ginn Tribute on Thursday after playing much of the first round with bandaged wrists and shooting 14 over par through 16 holes.
After Wie bogeyed the par-4 seventh, the 17-year-old star from Hawaii told an LPGA tour official: "We're not going to play anymore."
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Wie had not played competitive golf since missing the cut at the PGA Tour Sony Open in January. She had been recovering from wrist injuries.
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If you think back to the famous tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, you’ll recall an interesting and pertinent discourse concerning male vs. female centers of gravity and strength.
It was said at that time the she would lose because men have upper body strength whereas women have lower body strength.
So much for predicting female athletic performance against males.
As for her being a star or not, don’t you think that depends on how many other 17-year-old girls have like golf scores?
True. But, you know, men are ALWAYS better than women, no matter what.....
She won because Riggs’ BMI was off the charts. That he ever expected to haul that flab around and beat her is ludicrous.
Agreed.
Now that’s funny!
Steroids would explain her size, too.
Which is exactly what the premise of Riggs’ challenge was...
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Maybe that is why her wrist will not heal--she plays Wii golf constantly! |
Anna won some Doubles titles. Plus, Anna is HOT.
Riggs was restricted to half the court. It was by no means and even match. Besides, I think Riggs threw the match. He made out better financially by losing.
Money is the only reason either of them did it. Riggs wasn’t really a serious athelete, anyway.
If you recall, Riggs had already beaten Margaret Court. She was the #1 ranked woman tennis player at the time.
Surprisingly, Riggs was a fairly good tennis player in his day (in the '30s and '40s)
No, I hadn’t thought of that. I don’t follow tennis much and I don’t remember Court. I remember Martina as King’s biggest competition. I remember Arthur Ashe as the man to beat.
By the time the King match came up that blond was already climbing up, the one with the tennis bracelet. OTOH, it was really a little before my time. I think I was still in high school.
She’s a little young for ginn tributes.
Her own coach has said as much, but she can't hear -- the money's talking too loudly.
The clock is running out on Wie. In the same way that Anna Kournikova became completely irrelevant once Maria Sharapova won a Grand Slam tournament, she's going to be among the all-time underachievers of sport if she doesn't win something before she turns older than 18 years, nine months, and seventeen days (the age Paula Creamer won a four-round tournament, the second youngest ever) and give some return on about $40 million in endorsement cash.
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