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The Sure Thing: The Making And Unmaking Of Golf Phenom Michelle Wie
by
Eric Adelson
Michelle Wie couldn’t miss. No way. Big success? It was only a matter of time. At four she could drive a golf ball a hundred yards. At ten she was outdriving adult male golfers in her Honolulu hometown–from the back tees. At thirteen she won the Women’s Amateur Public Links, becoming the youngest person ever to win a USGA championship. The next year she was playing in LPGA...more
Hardcover, 304 pages
Published
June 23rd 2009
by Ballantine Books
(first published April 7th 2009)
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If you judge The Sure Thing by its cover and subject, you could be forgiven for concluding it was a hastily dashed off, standard sports bio, chiefly of interest to golf nuts. How wrong you'd be.
The Sure Thing chronicles the career of golfer Michelle Wie. To write a biography of Wie might seem a bit odd, given that at the time the book was published, Wie had yet to win a professional tournament, and it was far from clear whether she ever would. Still, Wie had been a child prodigy. At ...more
The Sure Thing chronicles the career of golfer Michelle Wie. To write a biography of Wie might seem a bit odd, given that at the time the book was published, Wie had yet to win a professional tournament, and it was far from clear whether she ever would. Still, Wie had been a child prodigy. At ...more
I remember when Michelle Wie first broke into the golf world. She did seem like the next Tiger Woods. Unfortuantely her family ruled her life and her golf career until she almost quit in exhaustion.
Most of this was interesting and I'm really not much of a golf fan. The descriptions of the matches she played were well done. But I did think the ending was a little disappointing.
I asked my husband the golfer where she had gone and he said she won two tournaments in 2...more
Most of this was interesting and I'm really not much of a golf fan. The descriptions of the matches she played were well done. But I did think the ending was a little disappointing.
I asked my husband the golfer where she had gone and he said she won two tournaments in 2...more
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