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Friday, August 01, 2008

Michele (73) draws biggest gallery
in US PGA Tour event

Michele Wie drew the biggest gallery of the day - the largest in the history of the event said the tournament director - and responded with a one-over-par round of 73 in the US PGA Tour event - for men - the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open at Reno, Nevada.
The Hawaiian teenager struggled early on but once she settled she looked the part and received a lot of encouragement from the noisy ground.
No female has made the cut on a US PGA Tour event since Babe Zaharias in 1945.
"I'm not going to think about that at all because if you think about making the cut, that's all you think about," Wie said. "You think about other players, you start thinking about what position you're in, and you start thinking about what you have to do. All I'm going to think about tomorrow is how am I going to make a putt? How am I going to hit a fairway?"
Wie's driving in the thin mountain air and putting were on. She required only 24 putts.
"It would be great if I could [drive it these distances] at sea level," she laughed. "That would be awesome."

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