Re: Butch Harmon slams Michelle Wie and her parents

multi wrote:
A little off the topic of Michelle Wie, but that's been at least
partially disputed:

http://golf.about.com/od/golfersmen/a/menstop10years_3.htm

The article you cite IMO does not support its claim that the
weak-field argument is "utterly bogus."

Which is why I said "partially." It's not totally bogus, the fields
were weaker, but not bereft of good, even top, players.

I always figured she tried the PGA Tour because the
LPGA didn't exist (until 1950). She just had no regular place to play
unless she took on the men. So why not? She also tried (not making
the cut) to play in men's events as early as 1938, before WW2.

I don't know much about pre-Michelle women's golf, but apparently
there were precursors to the LPGA that offered regular competition.
This site http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1139
says she won 17 straight tournaments in 1947 alone.

With prize money? I'm thinking she was trying to make some money on
the men's tour. In those days, only the top 15-20 made any money
(prize money for everyone who made the cut wouldn't come until the
early 1960s, I think) so she didn't even when she made the cut. Worth
a try, though.

Based on her
Olympic achievements, I'll gladly grant that she was a better athlete
than Michelle.

Well, Babe was a multi-sport athlete, which Michelle isn't trying to be
(apart from reportedly playing playground soccer with boys.)

Back to Michelle. The point is that Michelle has gained quite a
reputation, not to mention huge endorsement money, without winning much
of anything beyond local stuff in Hawaii. It's almost always been good
showings "for her age" or "for a ."

Something weird is going on with some of your words.

The last phrase is supposed to be "for a girl."

I
just go by the records, and I don't agree with the apparent majority
of the group who thinks that there are only two results in a
tournament, namely win and lose.

But she's the third-highest paid female athlete in the world, and the
highest-paid female golfer. Mostly in endorsement money, of course,
not prize money.

At that level, second-place isn't hypable. You'd think.

It's not based on what she's won (millions for winning the W Publinx?).
Is it based on potential? On image? On looks? What? Is she, like
Paris Hilton, famous for being famous?

.

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