welcome to the Pro's, Michelle...

#1

Wie was disqualified Sunday after her round when officials determined she incorrectly dropped a ball Saturday. That mistake should have added two shots to Wie's score of 71. Since Wie signed for the 71 instead of 73, she was guilty of signing an incorrect scorecard, which forced the disqualification.

The 16-year-old from Honolulu had just hit her 5-wood into a Gold Lantana bush, forcing her to take an unplayable lie. She took two drops away from the desert plant, then chipped to 15 feet and made the critical par. It was a phenomenal shot, and veteran sports analysts and former PGA judges were amazed. Mark Rolfing said "I watched the whole thing, and it looked fine to me. In my 19 years, I've never seen anything like this happen †™ ¢‚¬„¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¢†™‚¢‚¢¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¬¦‚¡¢‚¬Å¡‚¬†™‚¢‚¢¢¢¬…¡‚¬? not a drop from an unplayable lie."

The BIG problem with this is that it was reported by a Sports Illustrated reporter, but he neglected to do so until after the drop disqualified her. He said he "forgot" because he was in reporter mode. fucking jerk... She would have still placed with the drop penalty, which was a few inches away, and they had to measure it with line to determine. But he purposely waited until she signed her card, and thus she was disqualified. It is unprecendented for a reporter to do this: the only time anyone tried to do this before was on Tiger Woods, when he was debuting, and many call foul play.

The error cost Wie a fourth-place finish in the tournament and a potential first check of $53,126.

Robert O. Smith, a rules official for the LPGA, said he viewed a videotape of the drop.

"If I had to make the ruling based on the videotape, to me it was inconclusive," Smith said.

Rolfing from NBC said "If I had thought there was any situation that was questionable, I would have said it on air."

Smith, LPGA tournament officials Jim Haley, Wie and Johnston returned to the seventh hole after Wie completed play Sunday. After an explanation of what Wie had done, they asked her and her caddy to "approximate" the site of the drop...

However, it was on the video footage, that Wie conducted two drops on the seventh hole Saturday, and both times the ball rolled closer to the hole. There was still a tree in play, which is clearly seen in the footage. Besides, the first time, she felt it was two close and had it measured with that "triangle thing" :roll: and it was.

After the second drop, Wie's caddy, Greg Johnston, pointed to the place where the ball had struck the ground and Wie placed it there and hit it, Rolfing said.

Everyone had difficulty placing the second shot, so they measured approximately.,.. and after measuring the approximate site (which is not the same as on the actual video tape footage, with string, Smith determined Wie's drop had been improper.

Wie could have simply added the two-stroke penalty to her card if the violation had been revealed before she signed her scorecard Saturday. Once she signed that card, she violated Rule 6, signing an incorrect card, which automatically results in disqualification. Instead a reporter wainted until after she signed her card to bring this to attention.

No one thinks she did it on purpose, and once her terars dried, she was resolved to learn from the whole thing.

Anna Sorenstam won the tour, but that is not suprising. She rocks the green,

Of Wie's disqualification - tiger woods said "Get used to it," and groaned in remeberance of when they used to try and disqualify him for everything so they could dishearten him.

#2

Gotta hate it when that happens, but at least she's the sexiest burd in the LPGA... /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

#3

yeah, but you gotta admit, that is bullshit. taking the girl's 4th place in the Samsung was a powerplay by old white men.
and the rporter did it for his own agenda. A reported is supposed to report news, no make news. That was the judgement against the guy who fingered tiger woods for an improper drop, but apparently it didn't stick.

That SI reporter could have said something before she signed her card, and they would have made her play the hole again if it was improper, and she prolly would have done much better based on the rest of her performance. but this asshat had to wait more than 24 hours, until after she signed her card, to say something. When this happened to Tiger Woods, eight hours after he signed a guy from a golf journal *with a racial agenda, from the looks of it*, the golf world was in an uproar, and it was determined he was in play. And now, Tiger gets an official with string to measure his distance from the urinal to see if his piss-stream is in play, just in case!

but then , you got Tyler McRichDaddy who kicks his ball closer to the hole and no one says anything - even though more than 800 people watching at home called it in to the PGA! no one cares because there is no way he wll ever amount to anything, but this girl was honest,.. and all video says she was in play, and NO ONE ELSE of the millions of viewers and officials who were all-eyes-on Michelle suspected anything. I call foul play.

#4

You know they were going to hate on her...I just hope that she's mature enough, and that set backs like these won't spawn rebel feelings...It's exactly the kind of rude, brash behavior I would expect, and thus my concerns about her being professional...Had nothing to do with anything else other than her personal welfare...She's a child, and children thrust into such bright lights get blinded...The list of failures is much longer than the list of successes...I'm sure she'll bounce back, but she must have a great and strong support system in place...And she has to be even tougher than her already mature for her age mentality if she's to make it...

#5

she cried,.. but took it in stride,. and said "I will learn from this and move on" she took it really well.

be she gonna get a bit more experienced with "that triangle thing" too.

#6

#7

Thanks for that Fap...now back to the story....

This is pretty bad. What a way to begin. She did play her ass off tho...gotta give her props.