Screw 2012, The Apocalypse is TODAY ! (yes,this means Michelle won something...)

That's right folks - you heard me.....MICHELLE WIE WON A GOLF TOURNAMENT !!!! She fired a closing round 3 under par 69 to take a two stroke win over (winless in 2009) Paula Creamer at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational.

I've been a sharp critic of Wie in the past for one simple reason - she had never won a tournament, and always made lame excuses for losing them. Well, check out the scorecard above - not only did she win, she closed like a champ by birdieing the last hole with a one shot lead. Wie has been a much better player this year - as I pointed out in an earlier post...she has focused on the LPGA and seemingly found some friends on tour during the Solheim Cup this year.

Bushwood congratulates Michelle Wie on her maiden victory AND on signs of what appear to be some newfound maturity. Let's all hope that this will help the LPGA right the ship, and have a great 2010. Oh, and one other thing....a request for Michelle...

PLEASE do not PISS OFF EVERYONE ON THE LPGA TOUR BY UTTERING THE LETTERS "PGA" IN SEQUENCE. You are like Moby at a hip hop show....you just don't belong there...

This Cannot Be Good News....

Over the past several years, we have seen a number of interesting trends in golf - some worthy of a little ink (e.g. major winners other than Tiger, adjustable face drivers), and some completely uninteresting (e.g. Phil's attempts at fashion forwardness, the media's patience (and continued obsession with) Michelle Wie) .
One of the curious ones has been the "youth movement" put forward by Cobra Golf. Not only have they assembled a worldwide posse of kick ass players (Good Ol Boys, Latinos, Aussies, and my favorite Brit), but they have also really pushed the envelope in a number areas (the "Power Game", fashion forwardness, etc.). With a stable that includes major winner Geoff Ogilvy, heartthrob Camilo Villegas, adult film star John Ryder Cup stud J.B. Holmes, and the stylish and steely eyed Ian Poulter, Cobra seemed to really have a feel for a certain "type" of player to have sporting it's logo and weilding it's sticks on the big stage. Not so fast though...
The news broke rather innocuously today "Ogilvie switching to Titleist"...no big deal, since he is staying within the Acushnet family, right ? Buried within the 3 paragraph story,however, was the news that "Acushnet is moving away from a Cobra presence on Tour".... Say what ? With a quartet of young,talented, camera friendly staffers like that ? I'm sure the folks in marketing can explain that one to us....but I know a zillion teenage girls just won't feel the same seeing Camilo in the Castro hat emblazoned with Titleist on the front...