What Did You Accomplish Yesterday?

I had a fairly productive day yesterday. Some of you even more so, I'm sure. But Michelle Wie smoked us all. On the heels of becoming the first woman since 1945 to make the cut in a top-tier mens international Tour event when she qualified for final round play in the Asian Tour's 2006 SK Telekom Open in Korea last week, yesterday she:

1) Beat 40 male golfers with no worse than a 1.4 handicap to finish 1st out of 41 in her U.S. (Men's) Open local qualifier, thus grabbing 1 of the 3 spots into sectional qualifying. She shot even par and made a fairly miraculous par on the 17th hole to avoid doing a Van de Velde. The USGA believes that she is the first woman to ever make it out of U.S. Open local qualifying. She now moves on to her sectional qualifying on May 30th in New Jersey, where the competition will be significantly stiffer - mostly PGA Tour pros not already exempt as well as pros from smaller tours. This is sure to be a total & complete media circus.


You rocked your PowerPoint
presentation for the big client? Cute.

2) Was offered, and accepted, an exemption into the 2006 U.S. Women's Open, to be played June 29- July 2 at Newport Country Club in Newport, RI. Although she has turned professional, she is not a member of the LPGA Tour, but they took into account that if she were a Tour member she would easily have qualified based on monies earned both last year and so far this year (and the fact that she is the biggest media draw in the sport, although they explicitly deny this).

3) Was offered, and accepted, an exemption into the European PGA Tour's 2006 Omega European Masters, to be played September 7-10, 2006 at Crans-sur-Sierre, Crans Montana, Switzerland. She will become only the 2nd woman to ever compete in a European PGA Tour event (Laura Davies, 2004 ANZ Championship, last place).


My life is so good right now,
it's hard not to laugh

If the 16 year old H.S. Junior also got all of her homework done and cleaned up her room, then I would be really impressed.