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Posted on 08/01/2008 2:51:41 PM PDT by C19fan
Michelle Wie's eighth start in a PGA Tour event will not end in her first made cut. Wie shot a second-round 80 in the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open to finish at 9 over par through 36 holes. The cut will be at around even par by the time play ends Friday afternoon. Wie shot an opening-round 73, 1-over par. But a quintuple-bogey nine on the eighth hole (her 17th of the day) ended any hopes of Wie surviving to play the weekend at the par-72 Montreux Golf and Country Club.
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Win some tournaments? She can’t even make the cut in LPGA tournaments. At this point she’s a sideshow. Not much different than if those events hired some bikini models to play between the pros to keep the crowd amused.
She’s the golfing version of Charlotte Church. Good for her age as a teen but not “all that” as an adult.
Poorly written. I'm guessing she only got through 9 or so holes the 1st day, so she had played her second 9 and was back to the 8th hole for the second round.
But the clear meaning is that she had made 17 quintuple-bogies.
Which, btw, would be a normal golf outing for me.
There are so many golfers on the first two days of tournaments such as this that half the field tees off on 1 and half the field tees off on 10.
I don’t like your Anna Kournikova comparison. At least Anna’s high-water mark was #8 in the world (in singles, higher in doubles).
She pulled out of the Women’s British Open just to pull this ridiculous stunt.
The front nine was her ‘back nine’. That’s the way the first 2 rounds are played. Half the field starts on the 1st tee; half on the tenth.
But a quintuple-bogey nine on the eighth hole (her 17th of the day)
Poorly written
Nope......... Article clearly states she shot a 73 the first day.... The pros go off both tees, 1 & 9, morning and afternoon starts for the first two rounds. She started on the back today and thus the 8th hole on the front was her 17 hole played today.
I think that Michelle Wie is mentally unequipped for the professional game. She has the shots, she just manages to find creative ways to fold when the pressure is on (forgetting to sign a scorecard?). I think her insistance on playing against the men is another pressure-avoidance mechanism in that the expectations for her are much lower.
I'm not sure Anna Kournikova ever had the tools to be an elite singles player, so that part of your analogy I might disagree with (ever so slightly).
“……she’s just not managed well.”
Mostly by her parents, from what my friends in Hawaii tell me.
Good thing she has all that sponsor cash.
I don't like your Anna Kournikova comparison, either.
WOW, nice picture ZE
It took me awhile to get up to her eyes.
She looks pretty good in that follow through ... whoa
OK. Still, I like the idea of 17 quintuple bogies....
I never liked her after her nasty lie about another golfer.
It doesn’t matter what it tells you elsewhere. The sentence quoted is poorly constructed: “Wie shot an opening-round 73, 1-over par. But a quintuple-bogey nine on the eighth hole (her 17th of the day) ended any hopes of Wie surviving to play the weekend at the par-72 Montreux Golf and Country Club.”.
By convention, the parenthetical applies to the “quintuple-bogey”, not the “eigth hole”. If they wanted to make it clear, they could have at least said “17th hole of the day”.
For example, in a story about someone picked up for drunk driving after stopping at several bars might say:
“He drank another beer when he stopped at the golden goose (his 8th of the evening).”
You would know that the 8th was his 8th beer, NOT his 8th stop.
“Wie shot an opening-round 73, 1-over par.
But a quintuple-bogey nine on the eighth hole (her 17th of the day) ended any hopes of Wie surviving to play the weekend at the par-72 Montreux Golf and Country Club.”
Which one of the above is poorly constructed?...... Pretty straigth forward to me.
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