Golf: Meg Mallon feels Michelle Wie is wild card as U.S. captain's pick, Michelle Wie hasn't won a tournament in three years. She didn't come close to earning a spot on the Solheim Cup. But she was a captain's pick for the second time on the last three American teams.
U.S. captain Meg Mallon met with Wie at St. Andrews after the Women's British Open to tell her she was on the team. The next thing she told Wie -- after the 23-year-old Stanford graduate stopped crying -- was to not think of herself as a wild-card selection, but one of 12.
"It's tough being a captain's pick," Mallon said. "There's a lot of pressure that players put on themselves being a pick."
Few other golfers, though, have received so much attention for winning so little.
Wie has a 4-3-1 record in two Cup appearances, including a 3-0-1 mark in her debut in 2009 outside Chicago when she also was a captain's pick. Wie went 1-3 two years ago in Ireland, losing to Suzann Pettersen in singles on the 18th hole in a European victory.
"She lives on this stage almost every day that she plays," Mallon said. "So walking into this environment is not going to affect her. I needed another player like that on the team."
The event begins Friday at Colorado Golf Club in Parker, and Wie added her own touch to the U.S. uniform of a khaki skirt, red shirt and a blue cap. She showed up on the practice range Wednesday with knee-high socks of red-and-white stripes capped off by a thick blue stripe with white stars.
"It's a bit patriotic," she said. "I just kind of accumulate things over the year."
Adam Scott and Jason Day tied for lowest aggregate scores in the majors this year at 2 over par. The tiebreaker is easy -- Scott won the Masters. Other players making the cut in all four majors were Tiger Woods, Brandt Snedeker, Sergio Garcia, Matt Kuchar, Lee Westwood, Dustin Johnson, Henrik Stenson, Jason Dufner, Martin Kaymer, K.J. Choi and Phil Mickelson.
PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem says two British newspaper reports of a bid to take over the European Tour are inaccurate. Keith Waters, CEO of the European Tour, echoed Finchem's statement.
U.S. captain Meg Mallon met with Wie at St. Andrews after the Women's British Open to tell her she was on the team. The next thing she told Wie -- after the 23-year-old Stanford graduate stopped crying -- was to not think of herself as a wild-card selection, but one of 12.
"It's tough being a captain's pick," Mallon said. "There's a lot of pressure that players put on themselves being a pick."
Few other golfers, though, have received so much attention for winning so little.
Wie has a 4-3-1 record in two Cup appearances, including a 3-0-1 mark in her debut in 2009 outside Chicago when she also was a captain's pick. Wie went 1-3 two years ago in Ireland, losing to Suzann Pettersen in singles on the 18th hole in a European victory.
"She lives on this stage almost every day that she plays," Mallon said. "So walking into this environment is not going to affect her. I needed another player like that on the team."
The event begins Friday at Colorado Golf Club in Parker, and Wie added her own touch to the U.S. uniform of a khaki skirt, red shirt and a blue cap. She showed up on the practice range Wednesday with knee-high socks of red-and-white stripes capped off by a thick blue stripe with white stars.
"It's a bit patriotic," she said. "I just kind of accumulate things over the year."
Adam Scott and Jason Day tied for lowest aggregate scores in the majors this year at 2 over par. The tiebreaker is easy -- Scott won the Masters. Other players making the cut in all four majors were Tiger Woods, Brandt Snedeker, Sergio Garcia, Matt Kuchar, Lee Westwood, Dustin Johnson, Henrik Stenson, Jason Dufner, Martin Kaymer, K.J. Choi and Phil Mickelson.
PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem says two British newspaper reports of a bid to take over the European Tour are inaccurate. Keith Waters, CEO of the European Tour, echoed Finchem's statement.
