MICHELLE WIE RALLIES FROM DODGY START
TO LPGA CHAMPIONSHIP

Things looked distinctly dodgy for Michelle Wie when she was four over par on the seventh tee in the McDonald's LPGA Championship yesterday. But, give the 17-year-old from Hawaii her due, she ralled to return a one-over-par 73 in the opening round.
Michele had three birdies around the turn before ending the day six shots off the lead at Bulle Rock Golf Course.
"I actually hit some really good shots, I built a lot of confidence off of them," Wie said at her post-round Press Conference.
"But it's a work-in-progress and it's definitely not where I want it to be still.
"I'm definitely not 100 percent right now and I'm just going to work on it, and hopefully tomorrow is going to be better than today."
Wie upset several LPGA Tour players by withdrawing after 16 holes of her first round of last week's Ginn Tribute, citing a wrist injury, only to practise at Bulle Rock two days later. Annika
Sorenstam, the tournament host last week, was very annoyed and described Wie's behaviour as showing "a lack of respect and class."
Adding intrigue to Wie's withdrawal was an LPGA rule that any non-member who shoots 88 or worse in a round is barred from the tour for the rest of the season.
Wie was two bogeys away from that ignominious score when she pulled out.
LPGA commissioner Carolyn Bivens met Wie's father, B.J., and her agent, Greg Nared, earlier this week to discuss "interpretations of rules and regulations" which arose at the Ginn Tribute.