Each week, GolfChannel.com takes a look back at the week in golf. Here's what's weighing on our writers' minds.
On another injury-related WD by Michelle Wie ...
At year’s start, swing coach David Leadbetter delivered a tough-love message to Michelle Wie. “I love her like a daughter, and we can say things to each other,” Leadbetter told GolfChannel.com. “I said, `Now is the time, young lady, when you need to show what you’re capable of.’”
That’s what makes her continuing struggle so frustrating for everyone who believes she still has more potential to lift the women’s game to new heights than anyone else playing today, that she has more of the charisma and intangibles required to draw new fans from beyond the sport’s niche than anyone else.