Yes, Michelle Wie got her first win because the 2010 CN Canadian Women's Open (starting this year, it is now referred to as the Canadian Pacific Women's Open). And before you criticize my humor, don't forget the reality of it.
First of all, Michelle WAS domestic. She grew up in Kapolei, on Oahu. She grew up gambling on the Ko Olina Golf Club, wherein they have got a statue in her honor. In truth, she knew a big number of the those who came to watch her final round... And Mark Rolfing said it can had been the largest crowd he'd ever visible at an LPGA occasion.
Second, this became Michelle's first-ever LPGA win on American soil. She had gained the 2009 Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Mexico and the afore-cited Canadian Open in -- in which else? -- Canada. (Her win on the 2003 US Women's Amateur Public Links wasn't a professional win, of route.)
But possibly most significantly, the tale absolutely became all Wie, all of the way to the clubhouse. Angela Stanford entered the very last round with a 4-stroke lead and the wind blowing, which in and of itself were a huge benefit to Angela in the third round wherein she published a sixty seven to observe up Thursday's 64. (Michelle had published sixty seven-70 in the ones rounds.) And Michelle has had problem ultimate out very last rounds.
The operative word is had. It was a different Michelle on the course Saturday. She was 3-under after 6 holes -- 3 birdies, no bogeys -- while Angela could manage only 1 birdie before bogeying the 6th. Suddenly Angela was only one stroke ahead... a stroke she lost on the 8th. After 9 holes Angela was +1 while Michelle was a bogey-free -3. The two were tied and the wind was increasing.
Michelle persisted gambling bogey-loose golfing. She birdied 12 and 13, then Angela birdied 15 to get within one. But Michelle's birdie on sixteen placed her up with two to play... After which she did the Bubba, busting her force across the seventeenth's dogleg into the wind, leaving herself an insignificant pitch to the 350-yard hollow's green. Angela turned into forced to strive for a birdie however ought to do no higher than bogey, leaving Michelle three ahead with handiest the par-four 18th left.
Michelle bogeyed that hole, but it failed to depend. Her 5-below sixty seven turned into enough for a -shot victory.
Will this be the catalyst to get Michelle on a run of victories? I do not know. And to be honest, Michelle didn't certainly seem to care. She informed Jerry Foltz that she suspected it'd help her self belief going forward, but was so excited that she became genuinely dumbfounded while he requested her about getting her first win inside the States. It hadn't registered yet!
Whatever the closing effect is, this can most effective be right for the LPGA -- just witness the turnout to peer Michelle play. It could be exciting to pay attention what the rankings were for the very last spherical broadcast and to look the way it affects the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic next week in San Francisco, in which Michelle is likewise within the area. But now Michelle has tested to herself that her new technique to the sport can get the job done...
And that could make matters very thrilling for the relaxation of the ladies. Game on, Lexi?
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