Michelle Wie

Michelle Wie (* October 11, 1989 in Honolulu, Hawaii; actually Wi Seong- mi, Korean) is an American golfer.

Life

The child of Korean parents began playing at the age of four years of golf. At age eleven, had As a personal best of 64 strokes on 18 holes and qualified in that year for the Women's U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship, which she denied with the golf clubs of their grandmother.

In 2002, played her first LPGA tournament as, a year later, she became the youngest golfer in history, the Women 's Amateur Public Links. In 2004, she started for the first time in a manor tournament of the PGA TOUR, Sony Open in Hawaii and missed the cut by only one stroke.

Since her 16th birthday, she is however Berufsgolferin, a regular member of the LPGA Tour, it can be only at the age of 18 years. Nevertheless, it has already signed a promotional contract, which makes them a fee of 35 million euros / year to one of the richest athletes in the world.

On 5 May 2006, she managed the second woman after Se Ri Pak ( in 2003) - and the youngest person ever - the cut in a men's tournament in the Asian Tour, the SK Telecom Open in South Korea. In early September 2006, she played at the invitation of the Omega European Masters, a tournament the big European Tour. After two rounds as 15 beats was over par, finishing in last place. A week later they played - invited back - on the North American PGA TOUR, the 84 LUMBER Classic, and ended up with 14 strokes over par again at the very end of the field.