Wie’s Wrist Wrangling: “she’s learned to fib impressively”
Some in the media are begining to question what is real and what is a lie in the drama that is Michelle Wie’s wrist. Ever since Wie announced she had injured her wrist back in Febuary her golf game has either been non-existant or seriously lacking positive results. Now many golf watchers are just scratching their heads over the whole debacle. This little tidbit was posted in the Baltimore Sun:
Just four days after that wrist ached too much to play, Wie was matched with four amateurs yesterday for the pro-am tournament. There were more course volunteers than spectators around the tee box at 7:30 a.m., watching Wie wince slightly and flex her hand, trying to shake the pain from her fingertips. She walked to her trainer, who massaged Wie’s hand and fingers.
The hand the trainer rubbed - the one with the tightly wrapped wrist - was her right one. In withdrawing from last week’s tournament, Wie cited pain in her left wrist, which she hurt this year.
Her publicist later explained that the golfer still feels chronic pain in her right wrist from a previous injury and confirmed that it was the left wrist that forced her to withdraw last week.
A writer for the Honolulu Observer even goes so far as to say many in the Wie camp are straight up lying. That young Michelle’s sponsors are possibly forcing her to play too fast and too much:
Sadly, the ability to obfuscate might be Team Wie’s biggest accomplishment these last several months.
You’d like for somebody, anybody, in the Wie camp to stand up and come clean about what the state of her wrists really is. Trot out a doctor. Someone who can shed some reliable light on her slump because her credibility is declining faster than her phenom status.
Doubts about the extent of her injuries are hardly a surprise at this point. We’ve been left to speculate on what’s wrong with her wrists and just how much they might be impacting her increasingly feeble play. We’re encouraged to wonder if her sponsors or management are in too much of a hurry to get her back on the course. Theories of burnout abound.
Seventeen is pretty young to be in this spotlight. The girl just graduated high school. She won’t be allowed to drink a beer for at least three years. At least she’s rich. 
