Cheers!
Posted on 05/31/2007 10:10:29 AM PDT by NittanyLion
Cheers!
I suspect you are right. Too much golf, too fast growth.
Due to excessive racquetball playing, I've experienced tendonitis in both inner and outer elbow and both times it took about a year to go away. I also had a wrist problem that also took a long time to finally go away. In each of these cases strengthening the supporting areas was the key to healing.
In my opinion, she needs to cut back on her golf a whole lot and begin a strength training program at least until her muscle strength can catch up with and support the enormous amount of forces her joints and tendons are going thru due to her heigth.
Fear the Ginn.
I agree. Her parents put her in a position where expectations exceeded her current ability. I think the talent is there to meet those expectations, but I think the odds are now against her ever realizing it because of how she was groomed.
Her father. Tossing a 13 year old girl out on the men's tour was the absolute worst thing he could've done. He got greedy, and now his kid is (mentally) damaged goods barely able to compete with the women.
She'll never have success on that "5 and one-half inch course" until she matures mentally and learns how to win. That means learning how to play to win with the lead or how to play to win within a few shots of the lead. Lehman had a great column about this very topic in this month's PGA Tour Partners rag. You are also correct - Wie would be better off to heal up physically, then get out of the spotlight in some lesser-tour events.
I'm sure that you didn't really mean this, or else you're not a tennis fan.
Riggs wasn't a serious athlete at the time he played King, but only because he was pushing 60. As people tend to forget now, and as one other poster alluded to, Riggs, at the height of his career, was one of the finest tennis players ever to live.
You’re right on all counts. He was a serious big-mouth when he played King, possibly the rudest thing in tennis until Jimmy Conners, IMHO.
And yes, I am not particularly a fan of tennis, although I enjoy watching the Williams girls. I can’t play without getting tendonitis and since my serve is much stronger than my volly this gets me pretty much nowhere.
You should watch Federer. It is poetry in motion.
42 posts for that pic to show up, we are seriously slipping here at FR.
She finished tied for third and one stroke back at last year’s Kraft Nabisco (fka Dinah Shore) and last year’s US Women’s Open. She’s also been the runner up at the LPGA Championship as an amateur. She has the talent to win, obviously, but as a few other folks have mentioned, she’s a head case.
Here’s, I think, what is most telling about Wie: she withdrew from the tournament because she was concerned about shooting an 88, which would have disqualified her from appearing in any other LPGA events for the rest of the year. But at the time she withdrew, she was only 14 over, so if she finshed 17 and 18 par-par or even par-bogey, she would have been fine. But she was so concerned about her game that she didn’t think—as a professional—she could finish par-bogey. That’s sad.
Yeah, but she's at a disadvantage, she's straight.
Thanks for the tip. I was raised in a family that considered it socially unacceptable not to golf, play bridge and tennis. Oh, and the piano.
Okay, so I’m socially unacceptable. ;p
http://www.travelgolf.com/blogs/chris.baldwin/2007/05/31/michelle_wie_s_injury_withdraw_at_ginn_m
Looks like Wie was not injured at all, and just wanted to avoid an 88.
http://www.travelgolf.com/blogs/chris.baldwin/2007/06/05/laura_davies_says_michelle_wie_obviously
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