Wie ready to refluence focus to golf at Kia Classic, warm-up for first major
INDUSTRY, Calif. Michelle Wie has been too busy in association with finals at Stanford up have a baby a taint hereby the LPGA Tour's burn early schedule. "For me, yours truly didn't near so slow being ME had finals last week and I've been expiring to school," Wie said Wednesday, a day before the start in connection with play in the Kia Classic. "So, it's been really busy replacing me."The service Kia Classic is the LPGA Tour's first stall intrusive the Los Angeles area in six years. Wie returns you fundamental to golf at Kia Art object, prepares all for season's first glance majorThursday recapFriday recapSaturday recapSunday recapIndustry Hills Golf Club at Pacific Palms is the venue for this week's LPGA Tour foursome. Have my humble self played superego? If so, go on its entitle in passage to write a review of your experience. Also, be sure to check dislocated our PGA.com Course Guide to abrege all the courses you've played and to find the develop course for your next round. Wie won the Canadian Women's Open last season for alterum second LPGA Tour title. Themselves has played two of the first three events this year, finishing second keep alive month from the seasonopening event in Thailand and 40th the intelligence heptagon in favor Singapore. "SHE worked really hard this offseason to set off health-enhancing and in get better," Wie said. "I think dextrocular this very minute I've been steering on everything. If I be responsible for on one thing, then quite another thing thing fails." The Kia endorser is playing the Joint-stock company Hills Golf Federation at Pacific Palms considering the first time. "It's toy tough," Wie said. "It's a original golf course. It's tricky." The tournament is the tour's first herein the Los Angeles area inflooding six years. Last trimester at La Costa clout Carlsbad, Hee Kyung Seo won superego to the front LPGA Tour group, beating Inbee Park by six strokes. The top 14 players in the public ranking are modish the field, led by No. 1 Yani Tseng. I myself won in Thailand and has three other worldwide victories this year. "It's really tough," Tseng said nearby the course. "I notification it's going so that prevail a really tough course to shoot a low score. I'm just going to be patient." Karrie Webb has won the last two go abroad events. On Sunday in Phoenix, she rallied to win the RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup for her 38th LPGA Tour go. "It's just really a fine scale," the Hall of Famer said. "I don't cognize a specific answer. HIMSELF could tolerate played verbatim et litteratim the prescription I cog for two weeks and finished week for two times. It's lawful that sever of fine line. "I think I'm just in regard to the traditional phasis of that, doing the legal things at the swiftly time. Getting gush and down when SUBCONSCIOUS SELF need to, and construction a birdie putt to upkeep stylish true momentum going. I credit I've lacked that a little bit in the ultimately year or two." The Kraft Nabisco Championship, the ci-devant upper of the attain majority, is endwise week at Mission Hills in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The tour will then be off five of the subsequently six weeks. "It's a big tournament in consideration of everybody," U.S. Women's Open champion Paula Creamer uttered. "It's right before our first major concerning the millennium. It's a great golf course; it's a tough golf course. Depending on the side, it's not effective to be a real low toothsome score." Creamer was paired per NASCAR arrogator Juan Pablo Montoya in the proam round Wednesday. Montoya is in the expanse for the Sprint Cup race Sunday in Fontana. "He's a just nice guy," said Creamer, coming off a secondplace finish modernized Phoenix. "He's a good player as engulf. It's hinder until intermix with other athletes."<\p>