Michelle Wie at 11 she was a husky girl and shot a great game than at 13 she slim down & her game went down.?

Question

I never heard anyone say anything about this but as a slim down player her game went down. I wonder if her weight or dieting has anything to do with her game

Answer 1

Could be.  Maybe she should get sponsored by Hooters like JD did and pound a bunch of chicken wings.  Then she could beef right up.  Of course, a girl younger than 18 probably shouldn't pursue a sponsorship with Hooters...so, strike that idea.  McDonald's maybe?

Answer 2

I think you are partially right, in a way. I don't think it's necessarily the fact that Wie was dieting, I just think that the "huskiness" you saw in Wie at 11 and 12 was a lot of baby fat. When she hit adolescence, like many of us, she lost the baby fat and started shooting up, in terms of height. How tall is she now--6-foot-1, or something like that???

Many believe that part of Michelle Wie's problem is that she is had a lot of difficulty making adjustments to her fast-growing body, and in a way, "outgrew her swing".

I'm sure this is not the only reason. Add her overprotective parents, shrinking confidence, and David Leadbetter's over-technical teaching style, and you the recipe for one headcase of a golfer....

Answer 3

I know Michelle would need to give me 5 a side so I'm not sure she has turned into a hack. She is an 18 yr. old kid who will figure it out soon enough. Golf is always between the ears.

Answer 4

Michelle Wie has always been rather lean, ever since she came out.  She's just finally shed that "baby fat" everyone has.  She had a "wrist injury" that was bothering her almost all of last year.  Go to golfdigest.com or golf.com, they have stories about it.  Rather bizarre.

She's also spent too many years trying to play the PGA thinking the LPGA was a place she could just dabble with and dominate (paraphrasing a Golf Digest article there).  She's never experienced real winning.  She can drive a golf ball over 300 yards, just has trouble putting it all together in the men's events.

Personally, I think her parents have been behind most of the stuff she's been through, pushing her too hard.  Now if they would leave her alone, let her be a kid for awhile while honing her game at Stanford, she might make a comeback.