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Michelle Wie: Hated by all on LPGA tourney

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TrivialPursuits said:
Interesting article in the back page of the Toronto Star sports section.

Michelle Wie is hated by all, and is contemplated retirement based on the treatment she is receiving from others.

She has no friends on the tour and is segregated from the rest of the group. She is claiming racism.

I tend to believe it is her poor play, attitude and annoying habitual entry into tournaments she has no business being in that has caused her to become number "6" on the most hated athletes in sports list for 2007.

I think it is pretty sad when a former teen phenom places higher on a most-hated athlete list that guys like Michael Vick and Mike Tyson. Just my two cents, but I hate Michelle Wie more than ever.
was this the article?

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Former No.1 rejects her special invitation while erratic, injured teenager will play exclusive event

Oct 10, 2007 04:30 AM
Doug Ferguson
ASSOCIATED PRESS

Finally, some good news for Michelle Wie.

Barring a bad drop that gets her disqualified, or a recurring wrist injury that causes her to withdraw, she is guaranteed her largest competitive paycheque this season. That's only because the Samsung World Championship doesn't have a cut and last-place money of $12,499 (U.S.) is more than her total earnings on the golf course all year.

But that's beside the point.

The focus has shifted from whether Wie will break par to whether the 18-year-old (as of tomorrow) from Hawaii should be included in the 20-player field gathered at Bighorn Golf Club in the California desert.

Driving the debate is Annika Sorenstam, who this time hammered Wie more through her actions than anything she said.

No one ever imagined Sorenstam, who at this time last year was still No.1 in the world, would not be eligible for the most elite field in women's pro golf. The tournament takes the defending champion, the four major champions, the leading money winner in Europe, one special exemption and the rest from the LPGA Tour money list.

Let's take a quick inventory:

Sorenstam is a five-time winner of the Samsung World Championship. She went six consecutive years winning at least one major before coming up empty in 2007. And, dating to her rookie season, she had gone 12 consecutive years finishing no worse than fourth on the money list.

Then came the unimaginable.

Sorenstam got off to a slow start this year, which later was traced to back and neck injuries that kept her out of competition for two months. She has not regained her form and is at No.32 on the money list.

Considering her 69 career wins and the goodwill she has brought the LPGA through her performance, Sorenstam should be able to play wherever she wants.

It would have been a no-brainer to give her the special exemption, except for one problem: it was handed to Wie last March, before she went into a tailspin that not even the New York Mets could appreciate.

The perfect scenario for IMG, which runs the tournament and manages Sorenstam, would have been for Wie to give back the exemption based on the state of her game (her average score is 76.7) and so she wouldn't miss a week of her semester at Stanford.

When that didn't happen – Wie's agent said she was never asked – IMG and the LPGA Tour decided to "update" the Samsung criteria by adding a new exemption for active hall-of-famers and awarding that to Sorenstam.

Only when she detected some backlash from taking a spot in the coveted field did Sorenstam decide it wasn't worth the hassle. She declined her invitation, ending 12 straight appearances in the event.

Tournament officials attributed her decision to "contradictory and confusing information," which means players who thought they were in suddenly realized they were out. That's what happens when you change the rules two weeks before a tournament.

The last spot at Bighorn thus went to Sarah Lee, who has 69 fewer victories and 10 fewer majors than Sorenstam.

In addition, it became clear this "active hall-of-famer" exemption really was an "Annika" exemption, for neither Juli Inkster nor Karrie Webb were offered the invitation, even though both are more qualified than Sorenstam at the moment.

Intentional or not, Sorenstam sent Wie a powerful message about doing the right thing.

Wie doesn't drive ticket sales like she once did. She doesn't make news like she once did, except when she withdraws from a tournament with an injury and is seen hitting balls at the next event two days later. This is her last LPGA Tour event of the year and, having not competed for nearly two months, what can anyone expect?

It gets even messier considering that if not for the special exemption created for Wie, the last spot at Bighorn would have gone to Natalie Gulbis, one of the most popular players on the LPGA Tour whose passion for golf is overshadowed by her good looks. Gulbis won her first LPGA event this year at the Evian Masters, finishing 20 strokes ahead of Wie.

If there is a message in all of this for Wie, there is an even stronger message for the LPGA Tour: stop bending the rules.

This is not the first time the tour has changed the criteria at big events to appease sponsors and, not surprisingly, the other cases involve a certain teenager from Hawaii.

Samsung first came up with a special exemption for Wie in 2004.

A year later, the McDonald's LPGA Championship changed its rules to allow room for "a leading amateur," the first time in its 51-year history that the field was not all professionals.

When Wie declared she was turning pro, the criteria were changed again to exempt anyone who finished in the top five at a major. Lo and behold, Wie was eligible.

Also in 2005, the LPGA tweaked its rules regarding the number of sponsor exemptions for non-members. The limit used to be six, but officials decided not to count the Women's British Open against the number so Wie could play.

So after she turned pro that fall, the Kraft Nabisco people figured it was time to update their criteria to allow Wie and Morgan Pressel, who also had turned pro, into the limited field.

The United States Golf Association didn't help when it offered Wie exemptions twice, even though she had every opportunity to qualify, just like everyone else.

Perhaps no other sport has greater respect for its rules than golf. The LPGA Tour's propensity to massage them is dangerous, especially with drug testing set to begin next year.

Message to whoever is making these decisions: credibility is everything.
 
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Jury finds Ramage guilty of murder .... Article finds Wie guilty of being hated by public ..
One deserves 50 + coments and the other 0 ... ???

How about glad he and super lawyer didn't get him off on it and hope not a light sentance ??? Or my heart went of for Ramage cause of one stupid act
done on one night ???

Micheal Vick is found guilty and wow we are following everything ... ???

The difference is, Rob Ramage is a good guy, Michelle Wie is not.

Ramage will appeal and win. The facts of this case are in his favour, and in addition there were two asian jury members (no doubt friends of Michelle Wie) that completed misread the evidence.

The reality is, Rob Ramage is a hero and had talent, where Michelle Wie had none.

My arguments are sound and I am comfortable hating Michelle Wie. It is sad that you attempted to hijack this thread with your Rob Ramage hatrid post.

-You should be ashamed of yourself.
 
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I don't particularly care what Lindsay Lohan/Britney Spears et al do in their free time - I just really wish it didn't make the news, and I wish it wasn't displayed so prominently when it does.

I think the constant stream of negative news following these starlets normalizes their behaviour to people who idolize them. I'm not about to run screaming 'think of the children' through the streets, but just given the amount of adulation afforded to these starlets and their constant bad acts it's bound of have some kind of effect on anyone not yet wise enough to ignore their antics.

On a different tracl, as a person, if I fucked up as badly as some of these people have done, I know I'd want my privacy in the worst way.
 

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The Centre of the Universe!
Embarrassing myself? Really...

TrivialPursuits said:
You are embarassing yourself son. I am much older and wiser than you. Many people that I surround myself with have written books and have great knowledge of many things.

Think before you speak young chap.
You may very well be older, however age does not equal wisdom! Your bigotry is evident in your posts, such as this one:

TrivialPursuits said:
The facts of this case are in his favour, and in addition there were two asian jury members (no doubt friends of Michelle Wie) that completed misread the evidence.
Your implication, that because the jury members were Asian they could not understand the evidence, is very clear and seriously casts doubts as to your self-professed "wisdom".

I stand by my earlier interpretation of your handle, and encourage you to keep posting because it will do nothing except reinforce my conclusions!

I seriously doubt that you would "surround yourself" with people who did not share your disgraceful, archaic, and inappropriate beliefs. No doubt that you believe they possess "great knowledge":rolleyes: Your statement that they have "written books" is irrelevant...Adolf Hitler wrote a book (actually two); this certainly does not lend any credibility to their, or your, beliefs.

As for embarrassing myself, I will leave it up to other Terbites to determine who is really embarrassing themself here.
 

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TrivialPursuits said:
The difference is, Rob Ramage is a good guy, Michelle Wie is not.

Ramage will appeal and win. The facts of this case are in his favour, and in addition there were two asian jury members (no doubt friends of Michelle Wie) that completed misread the evidence.

The reality is, Rob Ramage is a hero and had talent, where Michelle Wie had none.

My arguments are sound and I am comfortable hating Michelle Wie. It is sad that you attempted to hijack this thread with your Rob Ramage hatrid post.

-You should be ashamed of yourself.
LOL! Ok calm down everyone! This post should prove that TrivialPursuits is just yanking our chain here with this entire thread.
 

Don

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There is no way he can be serious with a post like the one I quoted. It's simply too retarded to be serious.
 

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Michelle has the mentality of a spoiled teenage stereotypical blonde.

And about the racist comment, really WTF?!


One thing you may haven't noticed, is the fact that even when
Michelle sucks arse, and when even white LPGA golfers are
sucking arse, (say some white German chick and Michelle is ranked
around 20) they are given more coverage then say the
Korean golfer who is in 3rd place.

North American media and European media is notorious, in sports
broadcasting, for giving most air time to whom ever represent's
their national and racial majority. (watch PGA, LPGA, and league
soccer in the European's case)

Michelle gets more coverage then most white golfers; illustrating
the media believes that she is within the "majority", since she is
an American, bred in Hawaii...

SO what's this bullshittery about racism...
 
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Don said:
There is no way he can be serious with a post like the one I quoted. It's simply too retarded to be serious.
You've been a member since 2001. You should know there is no such thing as too retarded.
 
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TrivialPursuits said:
I think it is her demeanour, her asian appearance and her lack of talent that are the reasons for the hatrid towards her.
Her Asian appearance huh? You don't realize you have issues, apparently, because not only is that stupidly racist, you could easily argue that her popularity is because of her asian appearance. Lots of 50 year old men jerk off to her golf-ness and asian-ness.

Subtext alert: you obviously hate her. Seems a little silly no?
 

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red said:
was this the article?
That's the article I saw which was on the back page of the Star. No mention of "hate" or "racism".
 

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shack said:
That's the article I saw which was on the back page of the Star. No mention of "hate" or "racism".
there was nothing else in the paper that I could see either. I am not sure wtf this guy is on?
 

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Jasmine Jazz said:
look, i am asian and im a golfer. Michelle wie is unpopular because she does everything opposite of what golf is suppose to be about! She plays against men when she hasnt even win a tournament agaianst ladys! She fakes injurys so she wont get a horrible score! She doesnt show respect for the ladys older than her and her parents are nightmare like crazy! THATS why shes hated not because of she's asian. Like I said before have many many asian ladys on the tour and nobody hate them. michelle is because of how she acts and she thinks she's better than all the people she should be showing respectful to!
the ones who hate her are the same ones, generally, who are afraid of strong women. an example would be the irrational hatred of hilary clinton.
 

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mmmmm......a sexy golfer.

Gotta agree with you in every respect on this one, JJ.

By the way, what's your handicap...no jokes.
 

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After 3 rounds, MW is (only) 31 shots out of the lead.

Truly a well-deserved sponsor's exemption.

Hopefully she will immerse herself in everything Stanford can offer during the next four years.
 
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