She's been called a fallen princess but it looks like she's picked herself right back up.Wearing an awesome, lime-green, long-sleeved, mock-turtle-neck, dry-fit shirt, she had her driver out today and wasn't afraid to use it. In return the big stick helped her achieve a a 7-under 65 today. That stellar round included four birdies in a row.
So for now, the fallen princess is the comeback kid, and I'm shopping for that lime green shirt.
Update: Here's a prosaic piece on the agony and the extasy of LPGA Q-School by the iconic Ron Sirak.
I love lime green and black together. I have a lime green Lacoste shirt I wear with black pants, but Michelle wears it much better than me. She looks great--her game and her wardrobe!
ReplyDeleteWhat a strange world is LPGA golf! Michelle Wie just turned 19 and the media write about her comeback. Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els, and almost all the other great male goflers weren't professionals until their 20's.
ReplyDeleteAre teenage girls so developed emotionally that they can handle the pressure of professional golf? The teenage girls I dated never seemed to have their heads screwed on. Of course, as a teenage boy I didn't care so much about that aspect of their development.
Hmm - good fashion tip - lime green is the key. The same shirt in white during the first round made her miss putts, but lime green (and a much easier course) caused a bunch of birdies.
ReplyDeleteGot it. (geez - and all these years I thought it was practice practice practice) :-)
if she wears another skin tight shirt, check out her back. girl's been in the gym ! ripplin' muscles.
oh - JB - no - MOST girls aren't prepared for life on tour - emotionally, mentally, OR physically. It takes a very special, disciplined person, female OR male, to deal with life on tour.
ReplyDeleteVicky Hurst is one of the most mature young women in golf, and she had her mother travelling with her on the Duramed Futures Tour this year. (she started the year at the age of 17)
There are just too many temptations and situations that a young person isn't prepared to handle at that age, which is why the age rule is a good one.
The white shirt is fantastic too!!! Even if it causes missed putts, I want one!!! But I can't find them on the adidas website. Help!
ReplyDeleteHeather: I agree Lime/Black = a killer combination.
ReplyDeleteJB: It's true, women tend to have a substantially shorter, more precocious career in professional golf than men do. And that's due, very simply, to culturally imposed gender rolls, that dictate that a women should be the one who nutures, oversees, and takes the larger roll in managing the children/family, thus making it far more difficult for a women to blend family life with life on the tour.
For that same reason a system has developed that encourages girls to go pro early... so that's what happens. And I agree that most teenage girls (like most teenage boys) are not emotionally mature. How could they be, they haven't had enough time to develop maturity.
And the thing is even if a woman doesn't intend to have a family or has a great support system, she's still affected by that system. There are notable exceptions like awesome Julie Inkster, but they are exceptions and always noted as such.
Court: Practice vs Cute Outfit? Hmmm, let me think about that...OK, Cute Outfit please!!!! Maybe that's why I didn't break 100 this year. :o0
Lisa: I'll let you know as soon as I find them.
I'm learning so much here today - lime green = made putts, and the physical ability of women to have babies is a "culturally imposed gender roll". interesting.
ReplyDeleteCourt: Nuance, the ability for women to have babies is imposed by nature. The idea that a woman must be the principal one to rear the children and manage the household is culturally imposed. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that or that there aren't people who diverge from that, I'm just saying that it's currently what's considered normal in our society.
ReplyDeleteWith the exit of Annika from tournament play, the timing of Michelle Wie to fill the void could not have happened at a better time. Michelle will light up the fairways with or without the line green outfit. While on the subject of electrifying ladies on the fairways, Natalie Gulbis will be healthy in 2009. I couldn’t help but share this latest story on Natalie.
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.usatoday.com/golfersworld/2008/12/ladies-start-th.html
Bill: That is one heck of a good deal!I'm definitely going to post that because ...what could be better?
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing.
Thanks for the reply, Patricia. I hadn't considered that gender roles might motivate women - and the LPGA - to desire golf careers earlier in life. That makes sense.
ReplyDeleteI hope you are correct that such gender roles are due to cultural and not genetic influences. That would leave open the possibility of a world that one day fully taps the talent of both genders for leadership and other demanding careers. I've seen promising careers of way too many women halted when they take out a decade to raise children.