Defending champion Lorena Ochoa shot a bogey-free six-under-par 66 to take a one-stroke lead over Annika Sorenstam in the Canadian Women's Open, leaving Michelle Wie nine strokes back on Thursday in her final LPGA Tour event of the year.
The modern Olympic Games have always been a chick-flick moment for women who finally have the camera long enough to turn America's head. They haven't batted their eyes, but performed flips for enough mass adoration to last Mary Lou Retton's lifetime. They haven't vanished as fly-by darlings, but endured as women who have delivered iconic nicknames (Suzy "ChapStick" Chaffee) and haircuts (The Dorothy Hamill 'do) and first-name familiarity (Mia, as in Hamm).
Michelle Wie is not sure if she will make a ninth attempt to become the first woman since Babe Zaharias in 1945 to make a cut on the men's PGA Tour.
Michelle Wie gave herself a fighting chance to make the cut for the first time in a men's PGA Tour event after an opening round one-over-par 73 at the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open.
Norwegian Suzann Pettersen birdied the last two holes to finish with a five-under 67, which gave her a three-stroke lead after three rounds of the Wegmans tournament at Locust Hill, New York.
Japanese Ai Miyazato celebrated her 23rd birthday by shooting a four-under 68 to join Cristie Kerr and five South Korean players as joint first round leaders at the Wegmans LPGA tournament at Locust Hill, New York.
Over the five years we've tracked the money game, the Sports Illustrated Fortunate 50 has featured hundreds of athletes worth billions of dollars. As we present our fifth annual rundown of the 50 top-earning American athletes (taking into account salary, winnings, endorsement and appearance-fee income), we drew a number of conclusions:
Lorena Ochoa and Annika Sorenstam traded shot for shot to be well-placed after the first round of the LPGA's Michelob Ultra Open, but both had to give best to Scotland's Mhiari McKay, who leads after an eight-under 63.
Michelle Wie made an encouraging start to her 2008 campaign with a three-under-par 69 in the first round of the Fields Open in her native Hawaii.
In early September the beautifully comported U.S. Walker Cup team went to Ireland and defeated a team of fellow amateurs from Great Britain and Ireland, 12 1/2 to 11 1/2. A week later the American women went to Sweden to play a European squad for the Solheim Cup and came back victorious, 16-12. Then in late September the American men, led by Tiger Woods and loosely managed by Captain Jack (Nicklaus), went to Canada for the Presidents Cup and won handily over Gary Player's International team, 19 1/2 to 14 1/2. The last time U.S. golfers had such a trifecta? Never.
Defending champion Lorena Ochoa shot a bogey-free six-under-par 66 to take a one-stroke lead over Annika Sorenstam in the Canadian Women's Open, leaving Michelle Wie nine strokes back on Thursday in her final LPGA Tour event of the year.
The modern Olympic Games have always been a chick-flick moment for women who finally have the camera long enough to turn America's head. They haven't batted their eyes, but performed flips for enough mass adoration to last Mary Lou Retton's lifetime. They haven't vanished as fly-by darlings, but endured as women who have delivered iconic nicknames (Suzy "ChapStick" Chaffee) and haircuts (The Dorothy Hamill 'do) and first-name familiarity (Mia, as in Hamm).
Michelle Wie is not sure if she will make a ninth attempt to become the first woman since Babe Zaharias in 1945 to make a cut on the men's PGA Tour.
Michelle Wie gave herself a fighting chance to make the cut for the first time in a men's PGA Tour event after an opening round one-over-par 73 at the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open.
Norwegian Suzann Pettersen birdied the last two holes to finish with a five-under 67, which gave her a three-stroke lead after three rounds of the Wegmans tournament at Locust Hill, New York.
Japanese Ai Miyazato celebrated her 23rd birthday by shooting a four-under 68 to join Cristie Kerr and five South Korean players as joint first round leaders at the Wegmans LPGA tournament at Locust Hill, New York.
Over the five years we've tracked the money game, the Sports Illustrated Fortunate 50 has featured hundreds of athletes worth billions of dollars. As we present our fifth annual rundown of the 50 top-earning American athletes (taking into account salary, winnings, endorsement and appearance-fee income), we drew a number of conclusions:
Lorena Ochoa and Annika Sorenstam traded shot for shot to be well-placed after the first round of the LPGA's Michelob Ultra Open, but both had to give best to Scotland's Mhiari McKay, who leads after an eight-under 63.
Michelle Wie made an encouraging start to her 2008 campaign with a three-under-par 69 in the first round of the Fields Open in her native Hawaii.
In early September the beautifully comported U.S. Walker Cup team went to Ireland and defeated a team of fellow amateurs from Great Britain and Ireland, 12 1/2 to 11 1/2. A week later the American women went to Sweden to play a European squad for the Solheim Cup and came back victorious, 16-12. Then in late September the American men, led by Tiger Woods and loosely managed by Captain Jack (Nicklaus), went to Canada for the Presidents Cup and won handily over Gary Player's International team, 19 1/2 to 14 1/2. The last time U.S. golfers had such a trifecta? Never.
Suzann Pettersen led the LPGA tournament in Thailand but she had to share top billing in the first round on Thursday with local amateur Ariya Jutanugam who is just 11 years of age.
Welcome to this week's edition of the Monday Awards, where ESPN has packed Dick Vitale back up in a box until late October and it's unclear why Knick fans are excited about Zach "I won't get into any trouble in NYC" Randolph.
Michelle Wie has opted to skip her next scheduled appearance on the men's PGA tour, withdrawing from the John Deere Classic in July.
Michelle Wie made a sorry return to the LPGA tour as she was forced to pull out of the Ginn Tribute tournament after shooting 14-over-par through her first 16 holes.
If you're going to use that invisible golf club then you better hit this invisible golf ball. -- Mark, Roanoke, Va.
Michelle Wie returns to the LPGA tour this weekend at the Ginn Tribute event in South Carolina after a four-month injury layoff.
EAST MOLINE, Ill. (AP) -- Michelle Wie accepted a sponsor's exemption Tuesday to play in the John Deere Classic for the third straight year, continuing her effort to make the cut in a men's event.
PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) -- Michelle Wie will celebrate her 18th birthday this fall by playing in the Samsung World Championship for the fourth straight year, joining the 20-player field at Bighorn Golf Club where she made her professional debut.
Teeing it up for the first time as the No. 1 in the LPGA's Rolex Rankings and playing in her home country at the Corona Morelia Championship in Morelia, Mexico, Lorena Ochoa couldn't ice the cake with a storybook win, but she did birdie the final hole to tie for second with Julieta Granada at 18-under 274.
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) -- Michelle Wie has a sore wrist and Annika Sorenstam is battling a bad back. But, if their doctors approve, both will tee up next month at the LPGA's new $2.6 million Ginn Tribute hosted by Sorenstam.
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) -- Lorena Ochoa finds inspiration just about everywhere she turns in the California desert.
Michelle Wie will miss the first major of the LPGA season as she recovers from a wrist injury she sustained in a fall last month.
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) - Michelle Wie will not play the Kraft Nabisco Championship next week while she recovers from a wrist injury, the first LPGA Tour major championship she has missed in two years.
1. Phil Mickelson After a month of playing his way into shape, he was in complete control of his game -- physical and mental -- during a dominant win at Pebble Beach. He and Tiger Woods obviously have different ways of preparing, but the destination is the same. I can't wait to see them get it on at Augusta.
1. Tiger Woods Gee, who do you think is the favorite at the 2008 U.S. Open?
1. Tadd Fujikawa Wasn't it refreshing to see a teenage golf prodigy actually having fun?
Many of the Sony Open spectators came to follow one Hawaiian teenage golf prodigy, Michelle Wie, and ended up mesmerized by another, Tadd Fujikawa. The kid was almost a freak show: barely 16, a ball marker over five feet, sporting a game filled with swagger and a delightful, polite off-course manner. The amateur golfer marched down the fairways with his toes out, and his fist pumps brought to mind not Tiger Woods, always looking to bury the competition, but Seve Ballesteros circa 1979, when Seve oozed joy.
The new season began last week, at the Sony Open, the tournament the players all call Hawaii. The Mercedes-Benz Championship, the one Vijay Singh won at Kapalua in the first week of January? That's a dressed-up exhibition, winners only, another chance for the rich to get richer. The real start -- caddie changes in place, new gizmos on the practice tee, virgin irons in the bag, the exquisite grind of the Tour, all in the name of staying out there -- began for real last week. Charles Howell, who finished a shot back, said you start every season with all manner of golfing resolutions, but they're all on a short leash, one bad shot away from being discarded. The veteran Paul Goydos, a master of deadpan with a fitting nickname, had only one good week in 2006, a second-place finish in the Chrysler Championship, the final full-field event of the year, providing him with a $466,400 paycheck that allowed him to save his card. "I spent 10 weeks hoping that what worked at the end of last year would work in the new o
Somehow, it figures that Paul Goydos, the everyman hard-luck Linus of the PGA Tour, finally wins a tournament for the first time in 11 years and he's not even the main headline. The biggest story at the Sony Open was that of a local Hawaiian teen sensation who made the cut and won the hearts of fellow Hawaiians.
Michelle Wie tees off for the 13th time against male professionals in the Sony Open in Hawaii on Thursday to a growing chorus of criticism against her continued participation in men's tournaments.
1. VJ Thirty wins since turning 30, the second man to cross $50 million in career earning, the almost-44-year-old Vijay Singh just keeps coming. If he putts all year like he did at the Mercedes, he will easily re-establish himself as the second-best player in golf.
Michelle Wie slumped to her equal worst score in a professional men's tournament when she began with a nine-over-par 81 at the Casio World Open in Japan on Thursday.
Michelle Wie will be hoping history does not repeat itself when she tees off in the Casio World Open in Japan on Thursday.
Michelle Wie appetite for playing in men's tournament shows no sign of abating and she will kick off 2007 by competing in the PGA tour's Sony Open on her home island of Oahu.
Eight-time European number one Colin Montgomerie has withdrawn from the Casio World Open where U.S. teenage star Michelle Wie is due to take on the men again.
Eight-time European number one Colin Montgomerie has been confirmed in the field for next month's Casio World Open in Japan as he searches for an elusive victory in 2006.
Michelle Wie has a new agent, the second significant change in the golf prodigy's camp in the last 10 weeks following the dismissal of her caddie.
Swedish superstar Annika Sorenstam shrugged off some shaky moments to maintain a share of the lead Friday after two rounds of the LPGA Samsung World Championship.
Annika Sorenstam launched her bid for a sixth Samsung World Championship crown with a five-under 67, to share the first round lead at Bighorn, Palm Desert with Lorena Ochoa.
Michelle Wie's first appearance on the European Tour ended in crushing disappointment on Friday when the Hawaiian teenager crashed out of the European Masters and finished in last place.
Teenager Michelle Wie faces an early exit from the European Masters after an error-strewn opening round on Thursday.
Some of us view our schooldays as the best of our lives, and while that may have been true for Annika Sorenstam back in 1986, things have certainly got better and better since the day of her last exam.
American Sherri Steinhauer claimed her second major title and a third victory in the British Women's Open as a final round 72 at Royal Lytham and St Anne's saw her home by three shots with a seven-under-par total of 281.
Michelle Wie led by two with seven holes to play in the prestigious Evian Masters in France but was denied her first professional win by fomer world number one Karrie Webb on Saturday.
Australia's Karrie Webb edged ahead of Michelle Wie with a third-round 69 at the Evian Masters in France on Friday as the American teen stumbled again on her jinxed 17th hole.
Michelle Wie bounced back to form in scorching conditions at the Evian Masters, in her first event since being hospitalized with heat stroke at the John Deere Classic 11 days ago.
Australian John Senden fired a seven-under 64 to take a three-shot lead after three rounds of the John Deere Classic in Silvis, Illinois, on Saturday.
Stock market enthusiast Joe Ogilvie took charge at the John Deere Classic in Silvis, Illinois as crowd favorite Michelle Wie made a premature exit with heat exhaustion on Friday.
Veteran Juli Inkster and rising young star Brittany Lincicome will play off for the LPGA World Match-Play Championship after securing semifinal wins on Sunday morning in New Jersey.
Top seeds Annika Sorenstam and Michelle Wie kept on course for a dream final with second round victories at the Women's World Matchplay Championship in Gladstone, New Jersey, on Friday.
Japan's Ai Miyazato raised hopes of winning a major title in her rookie season after taking a share of the third round lead with American Pat Hurst in the storm-delayed LPGA Championship at Bulle Rock.
American Pat Hurst is the halfway leader at the LPGA Championship after completing the final eight holes of a storm-delayed second round to end with a one-under-par 71.
Dorothy Delasin set the halfway target of six-under 138, while Pat Hurst lies on on eight-under in a storm-interrupted second round at the LPGA Championship in Bulle Rock.
U.S. Open champion Michael Campbell believes Michelle Wie has to prove herself on her own tour before she deserves to play against the men.
Michelle Wie took a significant step towards her ambition of becoming the first woman to play in the U.S. Open as she shot a level par 72 to win a local qualifier in Hawaii.
Michelle Wie slid to a two-over-par 74 at the rain-shortened SK Telecom Open in South Korea to finish 14 strokes behind winner Prom Meesawat of Thailand.
Rain washed out the third round of the SK Telecom Open on Saturday, frustrating Michelle Wie's hopes of a good finish after she had become the first woman to make the cut in a major men's tour event for 61 years.
Michelle Wie's bid to become the first woman to make the cut in a major men's tour event since 1945 got off to a solid start in Incheon.
Teenage prodigy Michelle Wie will take on the men again in a PGA tour event in September, the organizers of the PGA 84 Lumber Classic announced.
Teenage sensation Michelle Wie takes on the men again at the Casio World Open which starts in Japan on Thursday.
For most of Michelle Wie's 16 years, she has measured power in yards. But the word is about to take on new meaning for the golf prodigy as she turns pro, signs endorsement deals, and finds there is...
The world's top women golfers will be able to enter the British Open championship for the first time in a ground-breaking move announced by organizers.
Teenage prodigy Michelle Wie is set to compete on the Japanese men's tour in November, organizers said on Tuesday.
World number one Annika Sorenstam makes her first appearance of the season in Europe in search of a record third victory in the Evian Masters starting on Wednesday.
American Hunter Mahan grabbed the lead after the opening round of the John Deere Classic in Silvis, Illinois, but a 15-year-old girl stole the spotlight after returning a one-under 70.
Michelle Wie has the potential to leave Tiger Woods in the dust -- in economic impact on the sport, if not on the golf course itself.
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