Archive for the 'Casio Open' Category

Michelle Tanking Casio World Open, Japundit Chimes In

Friday, November 24th, 2006

Alex Pappas as Japundit, a semi-regular read on my list, summarizes all the basic criticisms of Michelle Wie’s attempts at playing in PGA events in his post Golfing with the guys:

Michelle Wie, please stop embarrassing yourself by trying to play on the men’s tour… Ms. Wie characteristically went into denial mode and could not [...]

The Week In Wie: That’s The Way The Casio Crumbles

Friday, November 25th, 2005

Let the Wie bashing begin. In an interesting parallel with Apple Computer Inc. golf writers around the internets know that writing about why Michelle “can’t cut it” or why the Macintosh “will fail” equals reader gold.

AP’s Jim Armstrong quickly points out the following:

No woman has made a PGA Tour cut since Babe Didrikson Zaharias in [...]

Michelle Wie Opens 1-Over at Casio

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

Someone at Reuters better update their style manual. An improper use of the term Hawaiian went unnoticed by their editors giving AP curmudgeons giggle fits.

The 16-year-old Hawaiian made up shots on six and seven following bogeys on 16, two and three to move to within five shots of leaders Toshimitsu Izawa and Yoshiaki Kimura.

The 2005 [...]

Daddy Wie: Casio Helps Michelle’s Long Iron Game

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

With the madness of the SamSung DQ behind her, Michelle is ready for the Casio Open. Daddy Wie explains some of the reasoning behind Michelle’s gender busting game.

“That’s why we like to play ladies’ and men’s tournaments,” BJ said, “because it is different types of training and preparation. Michelle wants to improve every part of [...]