Oh Ryan or how I lost my mind and make a defense of Mark Debord

You took the guy to the cleaners but……

Consider Michelle Wie. Now 20-years-old, the phenom from Hawaii burst onto the professional golf scene in the period between 2003-2005. By her sixteenth birthday, she had already played an event on the men’s PGA Tour twice. She then turned pro, signed with Nike, and promptly almost won a women’s professional major, the LPGA Championship.

You replied-

Wrong again. Michelle Wie didn’t even turn pro until 2005. In 2003, she finished T9 at the Kraft Nabisco Championship. In ’04, finished 4th. She had already almost won a major by the time she finished runner-up at the LPGA Championship in 2005 – and even then, she was still an amateur.

I don’t get where DeBord is wrong.

Wie did come on the professional golf scene in 2003-05 as an amateur

She did play in two PGA events by age 16

She did turn pro, sign with Nike, and nearly win the 2006 LPGA Championship. While she did finish 2nd at 2005 LPGA she was never a real factor. Annika ran away. Go take a look, she won by 3 over Wie and shot a final round 73. Wie shot 69 in the final round. That means Michelle started the final round 7 shots back.

Wie didn’t finish 2nd at the 2006 LPGA but as I’ve written at least a half dozen times, including at least once at WR , Wie was one of the 6-10 golfers in the mix on Sunday’s back nine. Wie finished two shots out of the Pak-Webb playoff but she bogied 18. She 3-putted from 50 feet

Yes DeBord wrote a filler space article but Ryan you jumped him for something he didn’t do wrong. Hard to imagine I’m defending a golf writer, eh?

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