Michelle Wie Opens 1-Over at Casio
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 AP Style Manual differenciates between Hawaiian (of native ancestry) and a Hawaii resident. Native Hawaiian works as well since it’s pretty easily figured out by looking at Michelle.
The Honolulu schoolgirl missed a makeable birdie putt on 18 and had 40 minutes to dwell on it as she waited for a logjam of players at the first tee of the $1.7 million tournament.
Scratch that Casio organizer watch from your geek’s holiday wish list.
Reuters UK: 1-Wie fires opening 73 against men in Japan
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November 25th, 2005 at 12:26 am
I am a huge fan of Michelle Wie’s. That said, I must confess that her meltdown in the final two holes of the 2005 Casio World Open has, in its disturbing similarity to those disastrous two holes in the final stages of the second day of the Deere, left me feeling shaken. I’m continuing to make allowances for her youth, the vagaries of fate, the enormous pressure she’s under to perform, etc., yet doing this is, for the first time, failing to keep me from questioning whether there might be a fundamental chink in her competitive armor, so to speak. I’m submitting this in the hope that other readers of this blog will present compelling arguments to reassure me that my concern is unwarranted, that Michelle is, basically, doing a superb job of adjusting to all the pressures she has to contend with and that it’s only a matter of time before she matures into the dominating player- on both the PGA and LPGA Tours, one hopes- that so many of us are confident she will become. Even writing this last, long sentence has begun to dispel the cloud of concern I’d begun to feel.