Michelle How

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Michelle How
Michelle As in 2007 at the LPGA Championship Michelle As in 2007 at the LPGA Championship
Personnel
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Career data
Professional since: 2005
Current tour: LPGA
Tournament wins: 5
Major wins : US Women's Open (2014)
Awards: Laureus World Newcomer of the Year (2004)

Michelle Wie (born October 11, 1989 in Honolulu , Hawaii ; Korean 위성미, Wi Seong-mi ) is an American golfer .

Life

The child of Korean parents started playing golf at the age of four. At the age of eleven, Wie already had a best performance of 64 strokes on 18 holes; she also qualified that same year for the Women's US Amateur Public Links Championship , in which she competed with her grandmother's golf clubs .

In 2002 Wie played her first LPGA tournament, a year later she became the youngest golfer in history to win the Women's Amateur Public Links . In 2004 she competed for the first time at a men's tournament of the PGA TOUR , the Sony Open in Hawaii , and only missed the cut by one stroke.

She has been a professional golfer since her 16th birthday . She was only able to become a regular member of the LPGA Tour at the age of 18; Nevertheless, she signed an advertising contract at the age of 16, which made her one of the richest female athletes in the world with a fee of 35 million euros per year.

On May 5th, 2006, she made the cut in a men's tournament on the Asian Tour , the SK Telecom Open in South Korea , as the youngest person ever and the second woman after Se Ri Pak (2003) . In early September 2006 she played at the invitation of the Omega European Masters , a tournament on the European Tour . After two rounds she was 15 strokes over par and finished last. A week later she played - again invited - on the North American PGA TOUR at the 84 LUMBER Classic and landed again at the bottom of the field with 14 strokes over par.

In the following years she could not meet the high expectations. Although she recorded some victories on the LPGA Tour, successes in the major tournaments failed to materialize. Instead, she increasingly concentrated on her studies in communication science , which she successfully completed in 2012 at Stanford University . She later described the decision to break away from professional golf for the time being and start studying and follow through as the best of her life .

After graduation, she resumed her golf career and played golf all year round. On June 22, 2014, Michelle Wie finally won the US Women's Open and thus her first major. She finished the tournament with 278 strokes, two strokes in front of her compatriot Stacy Lewis and three in front of the Englishwoman Stephanie Meadow .

At the Solheim Cup , Wie was part of the USA team from 2009 to 2017.

In Hawaii Five-0 , Michelle Wie made a cameo in season 5, episode 16 .

Tournament victories

  • 2009: Lorena Ochoa Invitational
  • 2010: CN Canadian Women's Open
  • 2014: LPGA Lotte Championship , US Women's Open
  • 2018: HSBC Women's World Championship

See also

Web links

Commons : Michelle Wie  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Education Of Michelle As article on golfdigest.com dated March 12, 2012, accessed April 23, 2019.
  2. ↑ Michelle Wie Makes Her Own Lane in the VICE Sports Golf Mini-Documentation dated June 29, 2017 on youtube.com , accessed April 23, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Like, Michelle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Like Sung-mi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American golfer
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Honolulu , Hawaii, USA