Wie looking lost on Tue.

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Redgoat

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One of our Academy students, Danielle Kang (14 yrs. old), played a practice round today with Wie. Danielle's coach, my partner Kevin Scheller, said Wie hit it extremely bad. Driver was all over the place with no power.

Look out for Danielle, we call her the female version of Anthony Kim. Unbelievable talent and very confident. She could shock some people this week. As for Wie, Kevin says she is completely "lost".

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self-mastery

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Hopefully she will be banished to the futures tour, and have to compete on the big break to make her way back.

I'm sooo tired of her.
 
otto6457

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Legitimate question......

Is Wie golf's version of Anna Kournikova? Attractive, over-hyped, great potential as a child.........never to win anything of merit? A media creation destroyed by the very media that trumpeted her greatness?

I personally see Wie vanishing from competitive golf in a few years.
 
birdie_man

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I don't see how she couldn't have the tools (unless she loses belief in her potential)........just needs to develop them right.

Lead poison...............ahhh......lol......
 
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The Return of NAT

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I was there on the Range

First hand ...

I watched the Wie/Leadbetter workout at my old studio....The Pine Needles Learning Center...What I saw was a "tragedy"...The old hardwood located at the bottom of the South Tee is 240 yards to the base and an estimated 295 carry over the Top...She calmly hit low pull hooks as they rolled up to the base of the tree...then followed by several 30-40 yard flares toward the Practice Bunkers located 95 yards in the opposite direction of the old hardwood...

Standing shoulder to shoulder with Papa Wie...No shit! He stared with an overbearing concern....He was pissed!!! How do I know..He was standing in my infrapersonal space..I felt the heat...


Of the approximately 30 irons shots she struck 1 solid the rest sounded like the back edge of the Nike blade was dragging into the ground...Yes over-acceleration with throwaway...you could hear and see it!!!

Former US Public Links Champion and 13 Year LPGA member Nancy Taylor Capps stood to my right shoulder ( who BTW was a former Leadbetter student...Orr student for the past 3 years) in horror...

After 30 minutes and 2 solid strikes the 1 with a mid-iron and the last cut tee shot....both Leadbetter and Wie walked away as if it were no "Big Deal"...

Papa Wie and Mama Wie walked away in dismay!!!!:mad:


So in 30 minutes I watched no improvement from the former #1 Instructor and his prize student!!!
 
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I think Wie is a victim of the times. If she grew up 10 years ago, without all the media hype and the overhandling that goes on nowadays, I think that she would have been fine. As young as she was when all this started, and began to snowball, her parents should have been a little more protective of her, and allowed her to grow, and not "be grown", like some type of lab experiment. Unlike Wie, Tiger was allowed to be a kid, allowed to grow up, as much as was possible. Think about it; we didn't hear anywhere near as much about Tiger as we do about Wie, at corresponding ages. It was too much, too fast, and it may be too late to fix it.
 
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She is a kid. It is amazing the pressure everyone puts on her. It is true that she is putting herself in these positions, but it is her parents that are failing her. At 17 I would have been a disaster in her situation.
 
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swingobsessed said:
She is a kid. It is amazing the pressure everyone puts on her. It is true that she is putting herself in these positions, but it is her parents that are failing her. At 17 I would have been a disaster in her situation.
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Comparable to womans tennis where there have been lots of Michelle Wies -
Some burn out or have problems - Andrea Jaegger, Jennifer Capriati but many have great careers Tracey Austin Austin (the youngest-ever U.S. Open champion in 1979, aged 16 years) , Monica Seles, Venus and Serena etc.
 
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When she wises up and leaves Leadbetter she MIGHT get better. Right now I just don't think David's head is in the right place.

As an instructor I know how certain aspects of a golf swing come to fascinate me. It's easy to loose sight of how to keep the student progressing and get trapped into working on your theories. I've been able to avoid that pitfall with the students I work with but only because of the outlet I have here and on other forums. My understanding is constantly getting better because I'm just paying attention.

I think David is a smart guy that's just stuck where a lot of teachers are right now. Fad of the month... stuck drawing lines on a screen instead of getting back to coaching.
 
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What should she be taught regarding her swing? If Leadbetter's stuff is not working with her, what should she be working on? If Nicklaus had Leadbetter, video,... would he have ended up the same? He had Grout holding his hair to keep his head steady and keeping his right foot on the ground until after impact. He also competed and won on a junior level, college... She needs to learn to win, she has yet to do that. She is being directed by greed, not a search for improvement, in my opinion. Brian, Nat or any AI would likely improve her impact alignments immediately and go from there. Why would anyone change the swing she had three years ago? How can you let a young girl get so far off track for money, that is a shame. I have two daughters, both talented athletes at 9 and 11 respectively and they are taught to have fun, learn the game properly and win. Has she been taught that at all? Sure does not look like it.
 
Garth

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Leads got her so locked up into positions that I've seen her doing full verticle hinging in tournament play just to stop from hooking it. She needs to get back to swinging freely; a little loading instead of Leads' early wrist-cock crap, and nice solid impact instead of throwing it away. (So does Ernie while we're at it.)
If she places at all (doubt it), it would be despite DL, not because of him. She really does have all the talent in the world and still has a chance to be one of the greatest some day. It's not too late for her yet.
 
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