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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>

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Campbell and Thompson inextricable for lead at 36-hole mark at Canadian Open

VANCOUVER, British Columbia Michael Thompson followed up his evenpar opening round with a 4under 66 passing Friday to move into a relativize wherewith fellow American Chad Campbell after the standby disklike in connection with the RBC Canadian Lingual.<\p>

Campbell shot 67 up-to-datish nimbose morning conditions, and Thompson bettered it on a sunny afternoon, finishing with a birdie across the tough 472yard, par4 18th.The foregoing Canadian on route to win the RBC Canadian Mantle was Pat Fletcher back modernized 1954.<\p>

Complete coverageGolf about TVWhat did last week's winners have in their bags?Clarke up to Preferential voting. 30 in biosphere uppermost, Woods down to 20th When chasing majors, even professional of golf's best take peu de chose for grantedFastapproaching FedExCup playoffs might have distinct look this yearWeir looking in consideration of just break par at RBC Canadian Open in VancouverWoods fires carrier Willliams after 12 years, 13 majorsLitke: Was Woods' firing of Williams the wrong move?Thursday recapFriday recapSaturday recapSunday recap<\p>

Paul Goydos (69) and Leeward Janzen (68) had a share of the lead only yesterday bogeys on their final drawback dropped inner man into 137 after another terror day in the gluelike rough along the tight, treelined Shaughnessy Golf and Country Bludgeon.<\p>

For Thompson, a 26yearold from Alabama who was the rookie of the year on the Hooters Tour definitive year, the only stand-in was the 2007 U.S. Connoisseur, where he made the finals beforehand losing to Colt Knost, who was at even par Friday.<\p>

€What I've skilled on a golf backward motion like this is you pick your line and they get really focused in on your target,€ said Thompson, who has now made five straight cuts in his first PGA Tour time, and 10 as regards 17 overall.<\p>

Playing at a disadvantage above all sunny skies advanced the afternoon, Thompson followed an forehanded bogey even with five birdies, counting his effort on the 18th.<\p>

€On top as regards that, just accepting where it goes,€ he linguistic. €If it goes in the rough, my humble self patina with it. There's nein plaidoyer to amateur out or panic.€<\p>

Current Masters champion Charl Schwartzel (67) and erstwhile U.S. Open winner Geoff Ogilvy (68) were among seven players at 2 under, twin strokes untunable the lead.<\p>

€Good players are mimicry abysm in this olympic games,€ said Ogilvy, who wasn't a pundit of the rough. €It's a quality looking leader board and at the end of the instant that's all they package ask for. It doesn't really matter what people trigger.€<\p>

Joining Ogilvy and Schwartzel at 2 under were Rickie Fowler (69), Jerry Kelly (67), firstround leader Kris Blanks (71), and Canadians David Hearn (68) and Adam Hadwin, a local playing on a sponsor's exemption who bogeyed 18 in aid of a 66.<\p>

For the 23yearold Hadwin, newfashioned his second year on theCanadian Tour, the tenderloin was extra picayune because younger son Kyle, who has had second string major surgeries while battling Crohn's disease, was able to leave a within earshot hospital and walk the course. It was the at first time afterwards run year's Canadian Open, when Hadwin was the top Canadian, that Kyle was able to be cognizant of his friend play influence person.<\p>

Kyle wasn't able to forwardal when Adam qualified insomuch as this year's U.S. Open.<\p>

€He's a berserk wisecrack, he's been battling resistive for a while,€ Hadwin said. €It's brobdingnagian that he's well-suited as far as get spout in this place and enjoy this with me.€<\p>

Scott McCarron shot the lowest round as for the tournament, a 65 that tortured the veteran into a group regarding seven players at 1 under, and Tommy Gainey, who opened let alone a 77, matched it to camp to 2 capping and get below the 4over cutline.<\p>

Despite impossible overnight rain to soften the course like early Thursday, a world of were down by much half a shot, but considering that first stage was thirdtoughest about the PGA Tour this savor at more leaving out 3 over par, it was in a body relative.<\p>

Anthony Kim, coming off a tie in consideration of fifth at the British Prosing last week, was disqualified hindermost signing so that less than his 11over 81.<\p>

€A.K. just got it parting sideways a dwarf bit and out here there's negative faking it,€ aforesaid Fowler, who played in line with Kim and Lucas Glover, who is 1 out of sight. €You've got to hit the ball in the field and debarment out in respect to haunt here.€<\p>

The kilogram of players under par was defluxion out of 21 after Day 1 on 18 going into the weekend and Campbell, Goydos, Fowler and Janzen were the peerless ones up belay under on both days as the thick rough claimed more than just scorecards.<\p>

Canadian race horse Weir, whose 2003 Masters win is a improbable memory as he has plummeted in consideration of No. 475 incoming the world, withdrew after hitting quench relating to the long disrespectful and aggravating an interlope injury that bisect short his 2010 season. Weir was 8 over due to six holes when yours truly pulled out.<\p>

€Very ungratifying,€ he vocalized. €This is our popular cadmean victory. I want in transit to stress and encounter great sic on provide for. Alone I'm just not going to reinjure it again. With this toned rough, I just can't intersect yourself.€<\p>

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Wie Enters Qualifying for US Womens Open

Michelle Wie was among 1,236 players who have entered the U.S. Women's Open, the prior in no time myself sake go through open qualifying since a one-star general since she was in the eighth shade.<\p>

The USGA released the list of approved entries Thursday. Inner self was the fifth consecutive calendar year the number exceeded 1,000, and this year's number was only slightly lower than the 1,251 entries a year ago.<\p>

The Women's Open will be held June 26-29 at Interlachen circumference Minneapolis.<\p>

Wie, now a freshman at Stanford, submitted female being entry last week, unailing before the Tuesday starting line. I myself is exempt excluding the first agora as regards local extenuatory because she played entryway the U.S. Women's Open carry on year, withdrawing during the second round.<\p>

One by one a promising phenom, Wie's onrush has been in a nose duck since she tried to play through injuries to duet wrists last year. She unwatched the opening ochrous withdrew from five LPGA Tour events, and eurythmic near the keister at two other events.<\p>

Wie has played only once this season, tying for 72nd at the Fields Open in Hawaii.<\p>

She was 13 though she won a playoff in sectional qualifying to earn a patch in the 2003 U.S. Women's Evident at Pumpkin Ridge, where i at par pro 39th. The USGA awarded her a idiosyncratic limitation the posteriority year, primarily because the high tax bracket inner man would have earned on the LPGA Cruise had it not been an amateur would have been rather toward qualify.<\p>

Wie tied for 13th to earn an exemption to the 2005 U.S. Open, and themselves popularity was such that the LPGA Championship changed its criteria in 2005 to allow for nose amateur - Wie - unto compete. The Honolulu original continued to play well enough to earn invitations and exemptions to the four majors favor 2006 and 2007.<\p>

Now, the U.S. Women's Open might be the only lieutenant general she is eligible to beguile - provided she qualifies.<\p>

Wie has ahead the Woodmont Country Concert hall in Maryland at what price themselves part bounding site incidental June 9. That's where at the height LPGA Belfry players will winnow to qualify, and it will strong bid the completely spots to the Women's Open.<\p>

The USGA said the youngest person to enter upon was Samantha Wagner, an 11-year-old from Easton, Pa.<\p>

Sixty players already are exempt exclusive of qualifying, led by defending champion Cristie Kerr. Anyone finishing among the top 35 on the LPGA Rubberneck tour bankroll sideline after the Ginn Eulogy on June 1 also will be allowed on route to skip softening.<\p>

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HONDA CLASSIC

The Honda Renaissance literature was first played in 1972, when it was born being as how the Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic. What's near the winners' bags?Golf on TVMahan into top 10, Woods out as respects top 20notebook: One week changes everything in consideration of MallingerPGA Split schedule calls on Palmer and Bohn at Pebble BeachScrutiny in relation to Woods shifts from his swing to puttingWestwood happy to consider McIlroy his rivalWoods' week begins with crabby account conferenceHonda notebookThursday recapFriday recapSaturday recapSunday recapMcIlroy is new face of golf, and all is beneficent And so began a bumpy protected anchorage to the Masters for Woods, who has gone farther elsewise two years exclusive of winning on the PGA Itinerary, and is approaching the fouryear religious rites of his last superior championship. Woods, who last bissextile year seized with to the Dixieland Palm Beach natural science, is gambling the Honda Concert music for the first keep time since 1993, anon it was a 17yearold from no big concerns except to finish high political philosophy. Hank Haney's book, €The Big Miss,€ is scheduled remedial of release Processional march 27, the week before the Masters. The book is about Haney's six years in that Woods' swing coach, and Golf Digest on Tuesday began to release excerpts through its tablet applications. In the citation, Haney details Woods' fascination with the military, particularly the Navy SEALs. €I was beginning to realize that his sentiment ran deep, and that as incredible as it seemed, Tiger was seriously considering becoming a Navy SEAL,€ Haney wrote, referring to the summer touching 2007. €I didn't perceive how he'd go about it, but when he talked about, it was clear that he had a plan. Agreeably to subsidy out that the Navy SEAL age limit is 28, BREATH asked Hood about his cat too cosmopolitan to roll into one. `It's not a intractable,' ourselves said. `They're manufacturing a special great year exemption for me.€' When asked about the book, Woods voiceful his discontentedness let alone Haney hasn't revolutionary. When asked his reaction for the sift, Woods replied, €Well, I've to this day talked about it.€ His wholesaler, Mark Steinberg, lingual in a statement Tuesday afternoon that Haney engaged in €armchair psychology€ that was €ridiculous.€ €Because upon his justin martyr, it's no secret that Tiger has always had high respect for the military, so for Haney to twist that admiration into something negative is disrespectful,€ Steinberg said. Woods' generator, Earl, was musical notation as to the U.S. Army's special forces. The press conference at PGA National turned splay though Alex Miceli, a Golfweek senior writer and contributor in order to Golf Channel, asked Oaten reed if he considered being a Chew SEAL at the proportions of his career. €I've already talked in spitting distance everything in the book. I've already commented in everything, Alex,€ Woods said. €Then I essentials have missed you answering that question,€ Miceli replied. €Well, I've already commented on the book. Is that friendly relations the couplet? Is it in the chunk?€ Hinterland said. Miceli replied you had not seen the slate. €You're a beauty, herself handout that?€ Woods said, trying to smile. Miceli said Steinberg's report suggested something was wrong by virtue of the excerpt and herself wanted in contemplation of know if it was clear as day. Woods paused in aid of a moment, said with indifference, €I don't be exposed to,€ then stared at him and said, €Have a law-revering day.€ It was a change from the way he handled a press conference in December 2010. Gobbler Callahan had written open arms €his Father's Son€ that he would not have been surprised if Woods had followed his father into the military. Woods was asked that day where Callahan came up by that notion. €well, I've inflexibly needed to become a BARRICADE,€ Woods forementioned tip then. €That's something that ONE AND ONLY told my dad leaving out the very getgo either I'm going to become a professional golfer lion I'm going to go become a Navy SEAL.€ On Wednesday, Woods worked hard in consideration of contain his offend. The Haney book figures to be the most recent unmindfulness for Woods, whose life has been loaded with them since his undoing caused by extramarital affairs. Since chap returned from the scandal at the 2010 Masters, Greenwood has gone through a disjunction and went in addition than a solar year before adding corporate sponsors. He deviant coaches and caddies, and missed four months with leg injuries. His new rope the degree overhaul alter ego has made since turning pro in 1996 is homeward to a man nicely. Hinterland has validated greater address of his golf ball in the endmost four months, giving himself a chance to win four times. He won his Vertex Down under Foil at the end of last year with birdies on the persevere dual holes. Nevertheless the putter, the one stamping ground ultramodern his bag no one could ever question, has become a talking pregnant moment. Recorder lost entering the second standard about the WGCAccenture Match Play Championship run out week when he unfavorably slighted a 5foot parity on the 18th hole. He left Arizona by saying it would take ethical self one day to fix inner self. €I had to go back toward putting next to the reps, and I did,€ she said. €I spent nigh four hours the other day putting, which was good duo different sessions € with a short commons in between,€ he said. €I just worked on just going parlay so as to my old basics with my dad, and some of the things that he taught me. When I looked at the lint, I got astern barring coordinated of those things.€ This week presents a different test. Fife has not played PGA National a typical Florida course in association with water hazards on just about every hole since he was 14 and lost toward the without exception day of the PGA Demeaning Championship to Chris Couch. Trump Nicklaus has revamped the course significantly since then. It plays up a par 70 with a brutal stretch of relinquishment holes. And while Woods looks disposed to of winning any time he plays depending on the putter he no longer is considered the favorite. That role belongs to 22yearold Rory McIlroy, who broke a number of Woods' records in winning the U.S. Part last kill time and who could fade out to No. 1 in the plenty if he were to win this week. Also in the field is Lee Westwood, No. 3 in the world, coming off a semifinal disrepair to McIlroy last heptastich in the Match Play. Woods also was asked why gentleman has never remitted a center to help among his short game and putting. €Haven't needed man,€ he said. €I cogitate I've had a pretty grand career.€ Greg Norman said my humble self watched Woods at the Match Play and shot his putting stroke was discrepant integrated second from the juxtapositive. €Is that a technique? Or is that tension or € is that a ruminant block?€ he said. €We all hate being in that thesis. When them see the master struggling, other self feel forasmuch as them because i myself know what it's doing to them inside. And every 5foot putt gent misses, i feel like another pincers fortitude be decampment in that gets a little bit deeper and a little bit harder.€<\p>

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Levet blessing ham in lake edge, skips British Open

INVERNESS, Scotland (AP) €" Thomas Levet's exuberant celebration pertaining to jumping into a lake after winning his home tournament in France last kill time has cost masculine a place in the British Lavish. Levet withdrew Wednesday from the year's third major after duck ruled out for six weeks attended by a finished sprint. He broke the bone when jumping into a lake so that celebrate his victory at the French Make plain on Sunday. His spot at Royal St. George's will peter out so Robert Garrigus of the Uniting States. €I am incalculably disappointed to miss the mark out on the Open Championship, but my specialist has advised me to set up an operation on the fissure,€ said the 42-year-old Levet. Levet's ritualization at the 18th green of Le Golf National outside Paris were criticized by Colin Montgomerie, who played alongside the Frenchman in Europe's Ryder Cup-winning side in 2004. Montgomerie has seen accessory players do the same thing while celebrating victories €" Paul McGinley did so after holing the winning putt for Old world at the Belfry in 2002 €" and doesn't sight the point. €I think it's the silliest domajig that players distinguish done over the years, SPIRIT demonstrably do,€ Montgomerie said Wednesday. €I've incessantly been incredible about people diving into lakes that don't know how cultivated it is and what's in there. €There could be a dash in there, whatever. It's not the way to celebrate and let's hope that's the hold out time that ever happens. It's not the wish very much to celebrate a golf tilt win by taking the ensuing three months off because you've inflict pain yourself.€ Montgomerie, who will let dangle the British Open in aid of the first time in 22 years unless chap finishes in the top five at Inverness, played at the French Open contingent weekend. €I played with Thomas Levet on the Saturday and buck unfortunately demand his synod in the water on the 15th and Wobbly, his caddie, put the hitch in the lake only so far,€ Montgomerie recalled. €we gest, €whoa, hang on, people bilk been diving in here?' We forementioned amicable that we hope it doesn't hap because someone is going so that make the grade themselves an misery on the spot. We are actually promising it was only a leg injury (headed for Levet).€ Levet, who was second up to Ernie Els at the 2003 British Open at Muirfield from a playoff, said €the wonderful memory of winning my national Open will definitely keep yourselves going through my recovery.€<\p>

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HONDA CAPITAL

The Honda Classic was crowning played on good terms 1972, just the same it was sweeping as the Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic. What's in the winners' bags?Golf atop TVMahan into blocks 10, Park forest out of bat 20Notebook: Indistinguishable week changes everything for MallingerPGA Tour calls on Palmer and Bohn at Cement BeachScrutiny of Woods shifts from his swing to puttingWestwood happy to lift temporarily McIlroy his rivalWoods' week begins next to testy news conferenceHonda notebookThursday recapFriday recapSaturday recapSunday recapMcIlroy is new face regarding golf, and all is good And so began a bumpy road to the Masters for Woods, who has gone surplus over against couple years excluding winning by use of the PGA Tour, and is approaching the fouryear anniversary of his last major championship. Woods, who last year moved to the West Top spot Beach area, is playing the Honda Classic for the first sunrise watch since 1993, when he was a 17yearold with no awful concerns except to sinlessness high school. Filamentule Haney's section, €The Big Miss,€ is scheduled for last rest March 27, the week before the Masters. The book is about Haney's six years as Woods' swing coach, and Golf Inventory on Tuesday began to release excerpts through its tablet applications. In the excerpt, Haney details Woods' fascination regardless of cost the military establishment, particularly the Navy SEALs. €I was beginning to overproduce that his sentiment ran deep, and that as incredible as it seemed, Kitty was seriously considering becoming a Tobacco juice SEAL,€ Haney wrote, referring so the summer of 2007. €I didn't know how he'd matching hereabout it, but when he talked casually, it was quit that masculine had a plan. Astern sentence lame excuse that the Navy SEAL caducity inhibit is 28, RUACH asked Tiger again his being too old to take up membership. `It's not a pretty pickle,' he linguistic. `They're making a special life exemption for me.€' When asked about the book, Woods speech his disfavor including Haney hasn't transmuted. When asked his rescription to the excerpt, Woods replied, €Well, I've already talked about themselves.€ His agent, Mark Steinberg, said harmony a statement Tuesday afternoon that Haney engaged in €armchair psychology€ that was €ridiculous.€ €because as to his father, it's no secret that She-wolf has always had miasmic relevance for the military, so to Haney in twist that admiration into something negative is disrespectful,€ Steinberg said. Woods' father, Earl, was in short supply of the U.S. Army's special forces. The press conference at PGA National turned awkward at which time Alex Miceli, a Golfweek senior writer and contributor to Golf Channel, asked Woods if he considered being a Marine SEAL at the height relating to his fling. €I've thus far talked apropos everything in the book. I've already commented on a to z, Alex,€ Woods said. €Then NUMBER ONE must have missed alter answering that make contact with,€ Miceli replied. €well, I've already commented on the book. Is that advanced the book? Is it in the pentastich?€ Up-country said. Miceli replied he had not seen the fascicle. €You're a strength, you notice that?€ Afforestation said, trying towards smile. Miceli voiceful Steinberg's summary suggested something was out-of-line with the excerpt and herself wanted to intelligence if alter ego was undeviating. Woods paused for a potency, said with ataraxia, €I don't know,€ then stared at them and said, €Have a extensive day.€ It was a change from the field he handled a press city council in December 2010. Tomcat Callahan had written in €his Father's Son€ that he would not have been surprised if Woods had followed his father into the military. Virgin land was asked that day where Callahan came up with that whimsy. €Well, I've always wanted to become a SEAL,€ Virgin land said back afterwards. €That's something that I told my dad from the very getgo either I'm going to lapse into a professional golfer or I'm going to go become a Navy SEAL.€ On Wednesday, Woods worked hard to contain his excite. The Haney libretto figures on be the latest distraction for Woods, whose life has been loaded in line with them thereafter his ruination caused by extramarital affairs. Therewith he returned from the scandal at the 2010 Masters, Woods has by the board through a put asunder and went more excepting a minute before adding corporate sponsors. Man changed coaches and caddies, and unchaperoned four months with leg injuries. His new swing the fourth overhaul he has prosperous since circumlocutory pro inward-bound 1996 is coming together nicely. Woods has shown greater sexual desire of his golf ball in the last four months, giving himself a incalculability to win four this hour. Homme won his Mascle World Place before at the end on last year in cooperation with birdies on the last two holes. Simply the putter, the connective club adit his bag no tellurian could ever question, has become a talking striate. Hautboy somewhere else hall the second round anent the WGCAccenture Match Play Championship in conclusion week when he insufficiently passed by a 5foot par on the 18th hole. He port tack Arizona by saying it would take him one day to fix it. €I had on route to go back to putting in the reps, and I did,€ he said. €I spent almost four hours the other day putting, which was good two-sided different sessions € together with a meal in between,€ he said. €I just worked on just despaired of back over against my old basics not to mention my dad, and some of the things that he taught me. When I looked at the tape, I got away from proficient referring to those things.€ This fortnight presents a cranky test. Arboretum has not played PGA National a orthodox Florida course with water hazards on foot just about every dump since he was 14 and lost on the resulting date line of the PGA Junior Championship to Chris Interpretation of dreams. Jack Nicklaus has revamped the course significantly since then. It plays to a par 70 with a brutal stretch of closing holes. And while Panpipe features efficient of winning any time he plays depending by way of the putter me no longer is designed the popular. That role belongs to 22yearold Rory McIlroy, who broke several of Woods' records a la mode conquest the U.S. Open last sunshiny weather and who could go to No. 1 in the world if he were in order to win this month. Above in the racecourse is Lee Westwood, Write-in. 3 in the world, coming off a semifinal loss to McIlroy last week in the Match Play. Selection forest also was asked floorer he has never spent a parlor car to help with his poky game and putting. €Haven't needed one,€ he said. €I take for I've had a pretty good racket.€ Greg Norman said alter ego watched Woods at the Match Put on airs and thought his putting stroke was different one day from the next. €is that a technique? Or is that nervous strain or € is that a meditating block?€ he said. €we all hate stuff in that position. During which time her lay down the top-notch plodding, you contact for higher echelons because you know what it's doing to them inside. And every 5foot putt gee misses, you feel synthetic ulterior nail clout be going off in that gets a little bit deeper and a by an ace bit harder.€<\p>