Michelle out until May
Two articles on Michelle Wie today. The first, Injured Wie likely out until May, notes that she won’t play again until the Michelob ULTRA Open:
Michelle Wie’s withdrawal from this week’s Safeway International because of a wrist injury disrupts her competition schedule built around a leave of absence from Stanford University’s spring quarter. It likely also means she won’t return to competition until the second week of May, according to those close to the situation.
According to Wie’s managers at the William Morris Agency, Wie aggravated the left wrist she injured while running last year while practicing at Stanford earlier this month. Apparently, she was practicing shots out of the rough, where she spent much of 2007, and on one shot there was a ball embedded under the ball she was hitting, causing the injury.
That’s really bad luck hitting an embedded ball. Yikes! 😥
Another blog quotes David Leadbetter as saying:
This girl is so talented, she could do anything she wants to do in the world of golf. But people in her camp — and I’m not going to name them — have been a bit off on what she can and can’t do. It is tough that she’s a part-time golfer, unlike the other girls who work at it 24/7. In the past she’d go to school, pick it up and just play. Now there’s a lot more pressure on her. These girls — Lorena Ochoa, Paula Creamer, Annika — these girls are good. And it is hard for Michelle to be a bit player.