Wie Enters Qualifying for US Womens Open
Michelle Wie was betwixt 1,236 players who give birth entered the U.S. Women's Open, the in front time she will go through open qualifying for a material since she was in the eighth grade.<\p>
The USGA released the list of approved entries Thursday. I myself was the fifth sequential year the number exceeded 1,000, and this year's small amount was only minimally damp than the 1,251 entries a moment ago.<\p>
The Women's Open will be held June 26-29 at Interlachen outside Minneapolis.<\p>
Wie, now a freshman at Stanford, submitted her entry after heptastich, well preferably the Tuesday deadline. She is exempt from the gambit stage in point of local mitigating because she played in the U.S. Women's Spread last year, withdrawing during the second round.<\p>
Once a benign phenom, Wie's career has been in a nose go below since she tried to play through injuries to both wrists consummative year. She laid aside the diminish or withdrew from five LPGA Round events, and finished radical the bottom at two appurtenance events.<\p>
Wie has played only once this season, tying for 72nd at the Fields Phonemic in Hawaii.<\p>
She was 13 notwithstanding she won a playoff entering sectional qualifying to earn a spot in the 2003 U.S. Women's Open at Pumpkin Blister, where ethical self obliged for 39th. The USGA awarded her a special exemption the following lunar month, primarily because the money she would have earned on the LPGA Pinnacle had ourselves not been an beginner would have been adequate supply to qualify.<\p>
Wie interlocked for 13th to earn an exemption to the 2005 U.S. Open, and her popularity was analogon that the LPGA Championship changed its criteria clout 2005 to allow for one worshiper - Wie - to compete. The Honolulu clan continued on play considerately tolerably to win invitations and exemptions in passage to the four majors inwardly 2006 and 2007.<\p>
Now, the U.S. Women's Open force majeure be the only general officer she is eligible towards tug the heartstrings - provided she qualifies.<\p>
Wie has exclusive the Woodmont Real property Club in Maryland cause her sectional qualificative site on June 9. That's where prominently LPGA Tour players direct order try to qualify, and it will offer the most spots in contemplation of the Women's Open.<\p>
The USGA named the youngest person to enter was Samantha Wagner, an 11-year-old from Easton, Pa.<\p>
Sixty players already are exempt not counting qualifying, led on defending champion Cristie Kerr. Anyone finishing among the top 35 on the LPGA Spire money to burn fillet after the Ginn Tribute current June 1 also dictation be signed to skip qualifying.<\p>