Wie love it!"Fooore!" Standard golf-course lingo but, for golf prodigy Michelle Wie, it's also the age she began playing the sport (she was 4, duh). Now 13, Michelle is tearing up the green. She placed fourth at the Hawaii State Amateur Stroke Play as one of only three women in the field, finished ninth in the Kraft Nabisco Championship The Kraft Nabisco Championship is one of the four major golf tournaments for women on the LPGA Tour. It was founded in 1972 by Dinah Shore and has been classified as a major since 1983. The annual tournament is held at the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California. as the youngest player to make an LPGA LPGA abbr. Ladies Professional Golf Association cut, became the youngest-ever winner of the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links The U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship, often referred to as the Public Links or the Publinx, is a women's amateur golf tournament, one of 10 individual amateur championships organized by the USGA. The USGA typically calls the event the U.S. (a USGA USGA United States Golf Association USGA Uhren & Schmuck Gassner (Germany) USGA US Global Nanospace Inc. (stock symbol) USGA Undergraduate Student Government Association national event) and was the only female at the Nationwide Tour's Albertson's Boise Open in September. Michelle's mean swing is shaking things up in the world of golf, which some say stands for "Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden." Yeah, right! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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