Michelle Is Playing Well Again

True, Michelle Wie is only part of the news from the ANA on Thursday. But the fact that she is continuing to play properly is genuinely massive information for the LPGA.

For those of you who neglected it, permit me summarize the golfing that the sphere managed to finish.

Yes, the heavy winds that were predicted got here in, so there was no past due coverage of the ANA on GC. Just before 6pm ET, balls commenced to move on the greens, one of the small billboards across the course blew out of the floor, and the local airport measured gusts of 65mph. It changed into too risky for the lovers, not to mention the golfers, so play become suspended. They'll begin over early this morning.

Of the five players I picked earlier within the week, best In Gee Chun isn't inside 3 strokes of the lead. That's due to the fact she is within the late-early draw and performed within the worst of the wind. Judy Rankin mentioned that due to the fact that play had to be suspended fairly early all through the afternoon spherical, it evened out the draw somewhat. Chun is even after seven holes, so she nevertheless has time to make up a number of the floor.

Michelle -- who's only one stroke off the -5 lead held with the aid of Karine Icher -- made handiest one bogey and her putting looked very stable. She changed into paired with Lucy Li, who controlled a -1 spherical herself. Not terrible for a 14-12 months-old beginner on an extended direction! It have to be noted that she qualified for the tournament through winning the ANA Jr. Inspiration, and she or he shot even par when she played the Dinah Shore course in that event.

Fellow newbie Eun Jeong Seong made a hole-in-one on the par-3 5th and completed at -four, in the group tied one off the lead.

As for my selections besides Michelle:

• So Yeon Ryu (my pick to win) is tied with Michelle at -4.
• Anna Nordqvist and HaNa Jang are tied at -2.

Although it's too early to tell how things will play out, it looks as if the winds will die down before the players retake the course this morning, so Thursday's disruption may not have much of an effect after all.

While I'm excited to see Michelle gambling nicely in a chief once more, the big display these days will probable be Lucy Li. When she played the 2014 US Women's Open at age 11 -- ironically, the primary her gambling accomplice won -- she overlooked the cut. (I assume she shot seventy eight-seventy eight, but don't quote me on that.) She has a sensible risk to make her first cut in a major these days, and on the way to nearly really be the most important tale for GC when Friday is finished. Can Lucy do it?

Stay tuned...