The Sports Truth

In sports, there are athletes that inspire us (see Agassi, Andre) and athletes that amuse us (see Johnson, Chad).

Then, there are athletes that make us so mad our blood boils hotter than a Kristin Cavallari picture.

Michelle Wie is just such an athlete. The 16-year old FEMALE missed yet another cut at a men’s event this week - by a monumental amount. She shot a 15-over at the European Masters.

Unfazed, of course, Wie claimed she had to keep working on her male game.

“My view is that to get better on the men’s tour and to be a better player, I have to keep playing men’s events. If I just play women’s events, I only get better at women’s events. I feel I have a good balance now,” Wie actually said.

It’s true. She has a great balance of losing and losing excessively. Wie has never won a single event on the supposedly inferior LPGA Tour; yet she constantly feels the need to play against the physically more capable gender.

It’s like a sixth grader who gets brushed aside like gnat every time he steps onto an NBA floor … yet refuses to try out for his high school team.

Because, yes, Wie is losing that badly to the men. Forget about sniffing any trophies, she’s made one in ten cuts. Unless she’s competing with Danica Patrick admirers for who can set the women’s movement back the most dramatically, it’s difficult to determine Wie’s mission in all this nonsense.

One can sort of admire your drive, Michelle, but you’re just 16 and have yet to taste a drop of professional victory. Perhaps you it’s time you realized that drive isn’t enough.

You also need better putting, chipping, iron play and mental toughness.

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