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By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer

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The Associated Press


PALM DESERT, Calif. Oct 16, 2005 — Michelle Wie's pro debut made her look like an amateur Sunday when she was disqualified for taking a bad drop from the bushes in the third round of the Samsung World Championship. Talk about a rude welcome to the professional world.
First, Annika Sorenstam blew away the field to win by eight shots, even with a double bogey on the last hole.
Then, the 16-year-old Wie no sooner had signed for a 74 to finish fourth $53,126 that LPGA Tour officials took her out to the seventh hole to discuss a drop she took the day before.


Wie hit a 5-wood into a Gold Lantana bush Saturday and was barely able to find it. She told Grace Park she was taking an unplayable lie, dropped away from the bush for a one-stroke penalty, then chipped to 15 feet and made the par. It was a critical par save, and Wie went on to a 71.
The LPGA Tour was notified about the drop, and officials reviewed tape from NBC Sports before taking Wie and caddie Greg Johnston to the seventh green after the tournament ended Sunday.
Nearly two hours later, LPGA Tour rules official Jim Haley and Robert O. Smith said she was disqualified.
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Michelle Wie and her caddie Greg Johnston talk after Wie's drive landed in the rough on the third fairway in the final round of the LPGA Samsung Championship at Bighorn Golf Club in Palm Desert, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2005. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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Where's the imagination of the headline writer?

Ball Dropping from Wie's Bush Costs Her Over $50,000!

That does show where my mind usually is, however.
 
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Wie elbow deep in expensive bush.


Makes me instantly picture her and Natalie G all oiled up and hard at looking for the little man in the boat.

Gotta go bang the old lady now while its fresh in my mind :wink2:






 
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Read this shit...

Don't ask Michael Bamberger which group he stands in. He said he was simply trying to protect the integrity of the game when he walked up to a rules official late Sunday afternoon to say he had concerns about how Wie handled the drop from a day before.

Bamberger is a writer for Sports Illustrated, a job that gives him up-close access to the play of field in golf. He and some other writers were following Wie around the course when she declared an unplayable lie in a Gold Lantana bush, then took a drop onto some nearby grass that to Bamberger seemed was closer to the hole -- a no-no in golf.

The problem wasn't just that Bamberger made a case about it, though most journalists would argue that their job is to report the news, not make it. But he didn't have his fit of conscience until late the next day, which was way too late for Wie to make any remedy.

"I thought about it more and was just uncomfortable that I knew something," Bamberger said. "Integrity is at the heart of the game. I don't think she cheated. I think she was just hasty."
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Well, fuck you very much, you big brave man. If you didn't think she cheated, then why did you wait until the following day to weasel up to PGA officials and whine? You're just pissed off because your sorry pussy ass writes for SI and you may make a decent living, but some skinny 16-year-old Asian girl from the paradise state just made ten times more that you'll make in your lifetime. You're probably jealous that she'll be getting more dick than you do...
 
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That's a rule even I know, and I stink.
That's why Gloria Park kept dropping on her quad-bogey hole. The ball kept rolling closer to the hole, so after so many attempts, she just set it down.

So ,with the dq, then the caddie won't get paid either. Too bad.
 
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scarletandgrey said:
Yeah it's official Bamberger is a crybaby douche bag....Wait SI isn't owned by the same people the own ESPN are they. If so this would all make sense.
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No, SI is owned by Time-Warner. ESPN is owned by Disney/ABC

This isn't the first time something like this has happened. It's happened on the men's tour more than once:

Big Brother: [FONT=Verdana,Arial,sans-serif]Trial by television
[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,sans-serif]The subject of "trial by television" had been much in the air during the early 1990s after three notable incidents on tour. Paul Azinger was disqualified from Doral in 1991 for "building a stance" by kicking at the rocks in the water hazard on the 18th hole with his left foot.

A TV viewer in Colorado called in the violation of Rule 13-4 (moving loose impediments in a hazard). Because Azinger had signed for the wrong score, not tacking on a two-shot penalty, he was disqualified. An obscure English pro named Mike McLean lost an event he had apparently won, the 1992 Heineken Dutch Open, because of a similar phoned-in violation from what golf officials came to call long-distance "rulesniks."

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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>[FONT=Verdana,Arial,sans-serif]The PGA Tour initiated a policy of having a rules official monitor all tournament telecasts to help prevent such violations. In 1991, a rules official stopped Tom Kite from taking a drop deemed incorrect by a TV-monitoring official at the Byron Nelson Classic. Because of a player uproar over "Big Brother" watching over the tour, then-commissioner Deane Beman backed away from the practice. The Masters adopted a monitoring system for its broadcasts shortly after the Doral dust-up.
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I wonder if she will remember this some years later than now.

Then when SI finally gets that interview they've been desparately seeking oh, those many years they can ask her ..

Q: "Well Michelle, tell us what was your Welcome to The Pros moment..""

A: "Funny you should ask - remember that fellow Bamberger who used to work for your rag ...."
 
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There should be a time limit, i.e., Statute of Limitations, for violations. I'd make it like the challenges in football where if you get the next play off before the challenge flag is thrown or the replay official buzzes in, then the previous play stands...in golf, make it so if a violation is not found by the start of the following round, it can't be penalized. If it occurs in the final round and it's not found by the time they issue the prize money, it can't be penalized. People that blow the whistle when hey're not an official part of the tournment are just doing it out of jealous payback.
 
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