Michelle Wie is "Moving on up..."
 

Congrats to 15 year old Michelle Wie for a win in her first round match play in the US Amateur Public Links Championship. The winner traditionally gets an invite to the Masters, and Michelle is well on her way.

I know a lot of people don't like her competing against the men (especially with sponsor's exemptions), but I can't help but cheer for her for some reason.

Keith

Taking on TGM
 

Should she win her next round match against C D Hockersmith and Jim Renner wins his second round match against Tyler Neal, they will face off. Jim is one of my students (A Machiner).

Re: Taking on TGM
 

Any clips of Jim's motion?

Congrats 8)

Anyone notice her pre-shot routine at the Deere classic last week?
She had the club in her left hand with the shaft laying against an open falt right hand. She took the club back with the left and open right hand. She was tracing the inclined plane with the open right hand. Sort of a RFT with and open right hand.

Good Luck Drew. I hope your student does well!!!!!!!

Re: Taking on TGM
 

Wie beat him 3 and 1. She is in the final 8.

She drew Clay Ogden, a soph from BYU. Checked his 2004-5 events and didn't see anything exciting. They qualified the same.

Anybody that plays her is going to have to be comfortable with the Wie Armada.

Hootie's wife may be having the guest quarters redecorated just in case. Somehow I don't think the amateur Bunkhouse would be a good fit. :D

You go girl.

http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/story/3757196

Many Renner quotes about Wie, such as:

Renner, a junior at Johnson & Wales University in Miami and the NAIA medalist, won two of the next three holes to cut into her lead. But then Wie hit a low 3-iron shot from 220 yards into 15 feet and made the birdie to go 2-up.

"I'd like to see another 15-year-old girl — or a 15-year-old in general — do that," Renner said. "There's not many guys in this tournament who can hit that shot."

Michele qualified for this event right here in Pittsburgh. There is a phenomenal high school player at my course and I sometimes walk nine with him in the evenings after work. He played in that qualifier. I asked him what her game was like and if she was the "real deal". His response was , " Oh yeah, she's just awesome." Enough said. Dr Dave

"A wie bit of a problem putting"
 

Jim said he struck the ball very well, enjoyed the gallery, but missed five putts under five feet. You are not going to win anything putting like that :( .

I have seen comments from Will Claxton,recent Auburn grad and from Jim Renner---both lost to Michele but were very complimentary towards her. Nice to see good sportsmanship prevailing. Dr Dave

my feeling's
 

I am getting the impression from who I talk to and listening to other's opinion's that nobody really has issue with her playing in men's event.

I think the media as usual likes to and is over-hyping the sourness coming from men.

I think she could help the LPGA enormously if she stuck to that. If she doesn't the LPGA may tank.

Wanole,
Agree with you--these attempts to play with the men are interesting, but I would REALLY like her to stick with the LPGA. With Annika, Gulbis,Morgan Pressel (maybe), Kerr, etc-----that would give a tremendous boost to the LPGA. I almost think it would serve her better to get a few wins under her belt on the LPGA and THEN periodically try a few Monday qualifiers or sponsor exemptions on the PGA tour. She can almost single-handedly "save" the LPGA tour if she plays there when she turns pro. I hope her handlers figure this out. Dr Dave

That is intersting to me, although I didn't see it.... I'll explain. Back in the old days of "what instruction should I use this week" (pre- TGM) that was suggested as a drill by by Mike Chernak (an asst. at Deepdale in NY at the time). Mike got it from Rick Meskill (sp) I think, who is also a long island teaching pro. It was suggested to help stop me from crossing the line. I crossed the line pretty badly and basically hit blocks... but oddly enough it was pretty predictable and controllable. At any rate, I was told to hit balls this way.... maybe a couple of thousand iron shots would stop me from crossing the line... this was supposed to demonstrate how the right arm worked in the swing and I was also told it was impossible to do correctly and still have a long backswing that crossed the line. Now, I'm not suggesting that this isn't a viable drill... in fact, it was one of the few drills I found that helped a bit, but the second I was on the golf course I did what was comfortable, I reverted to my old swing... TGM worked much better and quicker, probably due to the ultimate logic of TGM and the fact that it isn't band aids.... it addresses the full motion of the golf stroke.

Overcoming a "Wie" bit of bad luck
 

Although he lost to Michelle Wie last week, Jim Renner won the New England Amateur today in a playoff at Valley CC in Cranston, RI. Jim carded rounds of 68-70-72-70-total 278 (-6) before beating Andy Drohen of St. Anne CC in a playoff.

That should get the members of my club and ESPN off his back for losing to Wie. She is pretty impressive though.

Keep an eye out for Jim, I expect good things from him in the future.