The last time we saw Michelle Wie, she was getting married to L.A. Lakers front-office exec Jonnie West, son of the legendary Jerry West.
Since then, the couple announced that they’re expecting their first child this summer.
Wie has been the most popular American professional golfer since she first came on the golf scene as a 12-year-old. Since then, her career has been more about injuries than victories. After her last event, Wie was downcast over the fact that her right wrist was making it virtually impossible for her to play. It was just the latest injury in a long list of physical problems. She admitted that she thought her body “was breaking down.”
Wie went on record before getting married last August, that she assumed she’d follow Lorena Ochoa’s lead when she decided to have kids and quit pro golf entirely.
“I thought it was going to be too hard to to play and have a family, something that I didn’t want to do. I just had that in my mind,” Wie said.
But it seems that during her pregnancy, Wie has had a change of heart.
Wie now says she has no intention of quitting golf. She says it’s due to the fact she has some “unfinished business” when it comes to her career. Wie also wants her daughter to see her play. Wie took inspiration last summer when Suzann Pettersen held her son, Herman, in her arms after holing that huge winning putt at the dramatic finish to the Solheim Cup. She also took notice when Tiger Woods’ son and daughter were on hand to see him win his 15th major at the 2019 Masters.
“It’s definitely a dream of mine for my kid to be in the crowd and watch me play,” Wie said. “Did I think that a couple years ago? Not at all.”
Wie is eyeing the 2020 Women’s U.S. Open for her possible return to playing.
Vijay Singh Invading Korn Ferry Re-Start Event?
The PGA Tour is scheduled to re-start June 11 at Colonial for the Charles Schwab Challenge. That same week, the Korn Ferry Tour will also make its return, staging the new Korn Ferry Challenge at TPC Sawgrass as part of what has now become a wraparound season on the developmental circuit. While the field for both events won’t be finalized until June 4, an early list for the Korn Ferry event appears to include Vijay Singh, who happens to live in Ponte Vedra.
Singh has lifetime status on the PGA Tour, and at age 57 he still competes on the PGA Tour as well as the Champions Tour. But his status won’t get him into Colonial, which typically has a restricted field and includes several unique exemption categories. Under the Tour’s guidelines, any fully exempt player is allowed to play in a concurrent Korn Ferry tournament as long as he is not eligible for that week’s PGA Tour event.
That same bylaw has apparently opened the door for Singh, a player with more than $71 million in career earnings and indefinite exempt status, to potentially play in the Ponte Vedra Korn Ferry event.
So The Veej will be in there with a bunch of hopefuls who need the money and the points. One Korn Ferry member, 35-year-old Brady Schnell, wasn’t happy at all. He went on his Twitter account and called the Veej “a true piece of trash” and a “complete turd” if Singh does indeed opt to invade the Korn Ferry Tour.
Schnell went on to add: “Whether you agree or not, I am just trying to protect the money AND the valuable points for every player on the tour that needs them to move on to the PGA Tour. There is NO point to him playing.”
We can’t disagree with Schnell.
2 Comments
baxter cepeda
Not surprised Wie will play again.
Wies body has been breaking down since she became a pro.
The pregnancy and the virus are just what the wrist doctor ordered. Wie needs to keep playing but she also needs to stop with the premature returns from injury.
Get well then play.
If she does that she has a decade or so left. And hopefully some day Michelle’s daughter can run into her arms after a big win. That would be awesome.
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I can disagree with Schnell; and he has since backtracked as well.
The Koran ferry might be minor league but it’s still big boy professional golf. If the rules allow someone in VJs position to play, someone will play eventually. If it can happen it will happen.
It absolutely makes sense for VJ to play a pro event as a tune up in his home course.
Should pga tour players not be playing in these small events being played these days? Of course they should and most are happy to have them.
The Korn ferry benefits from someone like VJ playing. He would be a reason to watch this thing sans this controversy, even more now. And
If VJ playing one event keeps someone out of the pga tour, did they really deserve it?
No. Keep in mind we’re talking golfs version of mr irrelevant here. Whomever the last man in is, is really not that important.
By the end of next year The number of qualifiers to the pga tour will be the same regardless of what VJ does, and no one will really care
whom that last guy in was and what effect VJ playing had.
If you are good enough, it doesn’t matter. I want to see VJ play.
Tom Edrington
Wie will try and play again until the NEXT injury, seems like there’s always one waiting in the wings, so to speak. As for Vijay, I hope about 40 KR players beat him!