Michelle Wie News

She could have gone down the warm and sunny Michelle Wie road towards riches in golf, but instead Eve Muirhead chose the cold and icy track to her Winter Olympic dream.

Competitions for cherished cups had a decidedly U.S. bent. A group of European male collegians used some late heroics to edge their American counterparts, 13-11, for the Palmer Cup at Cherry Hills in early June, but after that the story lines were red, white and blue.

Stanford University is an open-door kind of place, and a sunny Thursday afternoon in one of the dorms provided views of students conspicuously avoiding schoolwork.

You've got a golf question, and Larry Bohannan has the answer. QUESTION: Why do we keep hearing so much about Michelle Wie? She got publicity before she won and she's getting too much now that she has.

From the time her sweet swing marked her for future stardom at the age of 12, Michelle Wie has been targeted as the savior of women's golf.

Potential: Michelle Wie won her first event on the LPGA Tour recently when she was victorious in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational In 2007 there were 31 tournaments on the LPGA Tour, next year there will be 24.

Who says winning isn't everything? For Michelle Wie, it meant everything. Not for the $220,000 she pocketed with her breakthrough LPGA victory in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Guadalajara, Mexico.

It was a good cellphone signal that bounced off the satellite from somewhere outside Guadalajara, Mexico, on Sunday night.

Athletic triumph and academic triage lead the way as we 'flASHback' on the week's news that amused and confused: • Hawai'i golfer Michelle Wie finally won her first LPGA tournament four years after turning pro.

The LPGA's best arrived in Houston this week and on Wednesday the golfers took part in the Pro-Am tournament.

The Michelle Wie era has, at long last, begun. After years of injury and controversy, too much hype and money and not enough birdies, Wie won her first pro tournament Sunday afternoon at the LPGA's Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Guadalajara, Mexico.

"This tournament, and the [fan support] in Houston, meant a lot to me and I wanted to do everything I could to fight through the injury," Wie said in a statement.

After this week's installment, PGA Tour Confidential will take a few weeks off. Check back regularly, however, because we will convene the roundtable as the news requires.

Earlier in the year, when Michelle Wie wound up finishing in second at the season-opening SBS Open in Hawaii to Angela Stanford, the ratings were double the '08 numbers.

November 16 -- Let the hype begin! Just days after clinching her first-ever LPGA Tour victory, Michelle Wie will try to make it back-to-back wins at this week's LPGA Tour Championship in Houston, TX.

Lorena Ochoa shot a 66 on Thursday and has a 1-shot lead over Reilley Rankin after the first round of the LPGA's season-ending Tour Championship.

Michelle Wie's first victory on the LPGA Tour drew Golf Channel's second-biggest audience with the circuit.

Southern California head coach Pete Carroll walks off the field after losing 55-21 to Stanford last weekend.

The Locust Hill golf course in suburban Rochester will host the LPGA Championship next June, with supermarket chain Wegmans replacing McDonald's as sponsor of the season's second major.

Site: Richmond, Texas. Schedule: Thursday-Sunday. Course: The Houstonian Golf and Country Club .