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Michelle Wie West: All titles, career records, golf awards, and life milestones - full list

The American golfer won major championship and LPGA titles and competed in several men's tour events, before walking away from the game following the 2023 U.S. Women’s Open. Here are the key milestones.

Golf superstar Michelle Wie West has decided to walk away from the game after the U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach this week.

The 33-year old U.S. superstar won the 2014 U.S. Open, clinching five tournaments on the LPGA Tour in total.

In 2020, she became a mother, giving birth to her first child, Makenna. Wie West wants to spend more time with her daughter, and that has been central to the decision to put the golf clubs in the garage.

"I really, really wanted to play longer. I really wanted to - especially after having Makenna and her being a girl... Unfortunately it's just I had to make a hard decision with my body. It is hard to be a mom out here. You have to make a lot of sacrifices. I just had to make a hard medical decision and a personal decision,” Wie West told ESPN before starting the U.S. Open.

Wie West started playing golf at the age of four and despite struggling with injuries, she has had a career full of records and titles. Here are some of the American's most remarkable achievements prior to her retirement:

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1989: Michelle Sun Wie was born, on 11th October 1989 in Honoluli, Hawaii.

2000: At the age of ten, Michelle Wie became the youngest player ever to compete at the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship. Allisen Corpuz now holds the record, as she qualified when she was five months younger.

2002: Wie became the youngest player to qualify for an LPGA event. Five years later the record was broken by 11-year-old Ariya Jutanugarn.

2003: Wie became the youngest golfer to make the cut at an LPGA event (Kraft Nabisco Championship). The same year, she also became the youngest to claim a USGA adult event, when she won the Women's Amateur Public Links. Later that summer aged 13, she made the cut at the US Women's Open as the youngest player ever.

2004: At the Sony Open in Hawaii, Wie West became the youngest female to contest a PGA Tour event. In the same tournament she set the record of the lowest round by a female in a PGA Tour event – 68. She was the youngest woman ever (14) to play in the Curtis Cup tournament that the U.S. team won. Wie also won a Laureus World Newcomer of the year award.

2005: Wie became the first female player to compete at a USGA national men's tournament in the U.S. Amateur Public Links. She also turned professional in 2005, a week before her 16th birthday.

2006: Michelle Wie became the first female medallis t in a qualifier for the men’s U.S. Open. She also competed on the Asian Tour, where she became the second woman to make the cut in a men’s tournament at the SK Telekom Open.

2009: At the Solheim Cup, Wie captained the US team to victory . In Guadalajara, Mexico, at the Lorena Ochoa, the American took her first individual professional win on the LPGA Tour.

2010: Wie claimed her second professional win on the LPGA Tour at the CN Canadian Women's Open.

2014: At the LPGA Lotte Championship, Wie clinched her fourth title on the LPGA Tour - the first in the United States. This year, she also took the biggest victory of her career, when she claimed the U.S. Women’s Open , her only major championship trophy and her fourth LPGA Tour triumph. She won the title with a score of -2, to claim victory by 2 shots from Stacy Lewis.

2018: Wie won her fifth LPGA Tour title at the HSBC Women's World Championship. She also finished tied for 10th in the U.S. Women's Open, her 49th career top-10 finish.

2019 : Wie married Jonnie West, Director of Basketball Operations at Golden State Warriors NBA teams.

2020 : Wie West gave birth to her first child, a daugher named Makenna. 

2023 : Wie West takes part in her final tournament before stepping away from the game, the U.S. Women's Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links from 6-9 July.

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Michelle Wie West said goodbye to competitive golf at the U.S. Women's Open, and her final hole was one to remember.

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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Michelle Wie West waited over a year to say goodbye to competitive golf on the grandest stage. When she reached Pebble Beach’s 18th fairway late Friday afternoon, she had to wait a little longer.

Annika Sorenstam, her playing partner at the 78th U.S. Women’s Open, had tugged her tee shot into Stillwater Cove and there was confusion as to where she should take a drop. No matter. It gave Wie West a few more moments to soak in the final 18th-hole stroll of her career.

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The crowds thinned considerably by then, but those who mattered most surrounded her. Jonnie West, her husband, carried her bag beside her, while her friends and family shouted encouragement from outside the rope line. The couple’s 3-year-old daughter, Makenna, was among them, sleeping in a stroller. After hitting her approach into the greenside bunker, Wie West walked over to check in on her sleeping toddler.

Motherhood was one of Wie West’s motives for leaving the game. In her final act on the course she stayed true to her word. She might love the game of golf, but she loves being a mother more.

“There is nothing I want more than my daughter to be in a better position than I ever was,” Wie West said last summer. “I want her to get everything that she deserves.”

Those working in Golf Channel’s “Live From” set stood at the rear of the studio and watched the scene unfold. Wie West looked their direction and made a heart with her hands.

“[I’m] definitely going to miss the people,” she said.

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Those remaining in the grandstands showered her with applause as she approached the green. This is the first time the best women in the world have competed at Pebble, and without Wie West’s trailblazing efforts, it might never have happened.

The putter — long a bugaboo for the 33-year-old — did not cooperate this week at Pebble, but Wie West still proved she had a little magic left in the wand. With her final stroke, she rolled in a 33-footer for par. All she could do was laugh. She shot two rounds of 79 to miss the cut by eight shots, but the scores didn’t much matter. This week was always fated to be a celebration.

“Making that long putt on 18 definitely was a sweeter sendoff,” she said.

The first stop on Wie West’s farewell parade was with USGA CEO Mike Whan. The longtime commissioner greeted Wie West with a bouquet of flowers just behind the 18th green. Tears welled in her eyes as she accepted them and embraced him. LPGA pros Marina Alex and Jodi Ewart Shadoff made sure to pay their respects, as did David Leadbetter, Wie West’s longtime swing coach, who made sure to give his old pupil a call.

As Wie West stepped to the podium in the interview area, she held Makenna in her arms, wide-eyed under the beaming lights. Jonnie, her parents and dozens of others stood just out of frame, recapping the day that was.

“I’ve definitely held back tears the entire round,” Wie West said. “Everything was just incredible.”

Her final presser did not last long — just six questions — but every answer came with a sentiment of gratitude. For her family, who supported her from start to finish. For her friends, with whom the bonds will last a lifetime. And for her career, which came to an emotional conclusion at golf’s greatest meeting of land and sea.

“It feels [like] nothing has changed and everything was changed all at once,” she said. “It’s definitely a strange and surreal feeling.”

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Michelle Wie West Wants One More Crack at a Major

Wie West, one of the savviest stars women’s golf has ever had, intends to step away after the U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach. She could be done as soon as Friday.

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• July 5, 2023

You could see the head tilts and darting glances when people peered around Pebble Beach's Gallery Cafe, or as visitors sat on the patio that looks toward the cypress-guarded 18th green by Stillwater Cove. They surfaced at a luncheon with Brandi Chastain and Kristi Yamaguchi, and during a climb up a flight of stairs, and a stroll through a lobby.

That’s Michelle Wie West , that 6-foot fixture of collective memory and modern golf history.

She did not win as much as she wanted to, and certainly not as much as many people thought she would or should have. But after close to a quarter of a century in the spotlight, she is still one of the savviest stars women’s golf has ever had, a player plenty of people outside of golf know as a star even if they do not know golf.

The competitive golf part of Wie’s life will most likely be done by dusk on Sunday, when the U.S. Women’s Open is scheduled to finish at Pebble Beach. If things don’t go well, and they might not since Wie West’s husband will be her caddie for the first time and she has barely played lately, it could be over by dusk on Friday. After the Open, she has no plans to return to elite competition, though she dodges the word “retirement” in public (and confesses to sometimes using it in private).

That went fast, didn’t it?

In 2000, when she was 10 and Bill Clinton was president, she played the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship. She won the event when she was 13 , the same age she made an L.P.G.A. tournament cut and had a turn in third place on a major tournament’s weekend leaderboard. She played a PGA Tour event at 14, turned professional at 15 , rattled off three top-five finishes in her first three majors as a pro, battled wrist trouble, won the Open at 24 and then spent years with more injuries, cuts and withdrawals than strong showings.

So it was not that fast, after all. Soon, though, it will apparently be finished. Barring a victory this weekend or a surprise in the years ahead, Wie West will finish with five L.P.G.A. Tour wins, including the 2014 Open at Pinehurst, tied for 69th on the career victory list. It adds up to a far better career than most players, though short of the mighty expectations that followed Wie West from the start and flowed from a blend of internet-age youth, talent, celebrity and marketability. (By way of comparison, Inbee Park, a 34-year-old player from South Korea, has won seven majors but has long drawn a fraction of the public attention that Wie West commanded.)

“What’s the right word for this?” Wie West said in an interview in a sun-splashed lounge, well out of earshot of any aides.

“I feel very — confident that I had the career that I wanted to,” she continued eventually. “Obviously, I wish I could have done more as well. I think anyone and everyone thinks that.”

But, she said, “the what-ifs and the regrets and the ‘I wish I could have done this better’ can drive you truly insane.”

Even last year’s announcement of a transition , to use her publicly preferred term, got derailed when her husband came down with Covid-19 and Wie West’s parents stayed back to help with child care. Ready to detail the wind-down she had rolled out on Instagram the previous week, Wie West wound up nearly alone at the 2022 Open in North Carolina.

She had been mulling for years whether it was time to stop playing, frustrated by injuries and, more recently, torn by the notion of her family of three having only so much time together. In 2021, vulgar comments about Wie West by Rudolph W. Giuliani, a former mayor of New York City, jolted her into a fresh sense of purpose .

But there eventually came a point, she said, when she realized the game’s toll was ultimately too high, when she feared her body would be so broken down she would not even be able to play a round for pleasure with her daughter. Her clubs have been in her bag almost exclusively ever since.

“It’s hard,” she said, “it’s hard to know when the right time is to walk away.”

That is assuredly in part because, for an athlete in any sport, stepping back from competition means the statistics are done and that the résumé is, with few exceptions, frozen. For Wie West, retiring or transitioning or whatever you want to call it meant firing up the inevitable debate about whether she had been a squandered or overhyped talent.

She hears it, of course. She also gets it.

“People love to chirp and have their own feeling and whatnot, and they totally have the right to it: They have been invested in my career,” she said. “I know I haven’t won as many as I, quote-unquote, should have.”

At the same time, she seems to wonder how fair it is. She earned a degree from Stanford and won a U.S. Open, and those two feats, she figures, are what she wanted to do anyway.

And yet she can still run through all of the ways her career could have been different: if she had held onto a share of the lead at the 2005 Open at Cherry Hills, if her quest that year to earn a spot in the Masters had worked out , if she had made the cut at her first PGA Tour event instead of missing it by a stroke .

She is entering this week’s 156-woman Open with measured expectations against a deep field.

The reigning champion, Minjee Lee , has won two majors since 2021 and is not ranked in the top-five in the world. And there is Rose Zhang , the 20-year-old Stanford student who last month won her debut tournament as a professional. Wie West’s group, which will tee off at 8:28 a.m. Pacific time on Thursday, includes the three-time major winner In Gee Chun and Annika Sorenstam, who logged 10 major victories in her career and received a special exemption into this week’s field.

This spring, Wie West was musing about how she needed to get her stamina up for the rigors of a major, how she needed to hone her iron and wedge play before returning to one of golf’s biggest stages, especially since it will be played this year on one of the sport’s most beloved courses.

“Just have to believe in myself, just get to a point where I feel confident that I can execute the shots and make the putts,” she said. “And I’m hoping that it all comes very quickly.”

She plans to remain closely connected to the sport — she recently hosted the L.P.G.A. tournament that Zhang won — but insisted that she does not think much about how she transformed perceptions of the game that she said still enchants her.

Even now, she said, she will play with her husband and become persuaded that, like every other golfer who has won, lost or never actually contested a major, she has unlocked the sport’s mysteries.

“You get that one feeling and it feels really good, and you’re like, ‘I think I’ve figured out the game. I’ve figured it out!’” she said. “I still catch myself saying that almost every time I play, so I know there’s an itch to want to get better.”

Soon enough, after all of this time, it will be happening away from the spotlight.

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias was the first to do so, in 1935, and Brittany Lincicome was the most recent, in 2018.

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The future PGA of America president qualified for the ’03 Greater Hartford Open by winning the 2002 Connecticut PGA Section Championship. She shot 75-78 to miss the cut. Whaley is the only female, outside of Zaharias (twice), to qualify to compete in a Tour event and not receive a sponsor’s exemption.

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Michelle Wie West

As a 14-year-old amateur prodigy, Wie West was given a sponsor’s invitation to compete in the Sony Open in her native Hawaii. She shot 72-68 to miss the cut by one shot, with her second round the lowest score ever posted by a female in a Tour event. She played seven times more on Tour – all on sponsor’s exemptions – but never made the cut.

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The two-time major champion received a sponsor’s invitation to play the 2018 Barbasol Championship. She missed the cut, shooting 78-71 (the second woman, after Wie West, to break par on Tour), but had a stretch of three consecutive birdies in her second round and a hole-out eagle.

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Michelle Wie West, who was once tipped to become the Tiger Woods of women’s golf, is stepping away from the LPGA tour at the age of 32.

Wie West told Golfweek that she will compete at the Women’s US Open next week and in 2023 but does not plan to play any other tournaments. She gave birth to her daughter, Makenna, in 2020 and says the rigours of the tour have affected her.

“At times, if I do play a lot of golf,” she said. “I’m just in bed. Or I can’t lift [Makenna] up, and that scared me.”

Wie West first shot to fame as a 10-year-old when she became the youngest-ever player to qualify for the US Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship. More records followed as she won the Hawaii State Women’s Stroke Play Championship in her home state at the age of 11 and became the youngest player to qualify for an LPGA event a year later. When she was 14, she recorded the lowest score ever by a woman competing on the PGA Tour with a 68 at the Sony Open. She announced she was turning professional just before her 16th birthday and subsequently signed deals with Nike and Sony worth millions of dollars.

However, her career was plagued with injuries and some within golf believed the hype around her did not match her abilities. There was reported unhappiness on both the PGA and LPGA tours that she received sponsors’ exemptions to some tournaments at the expense of golfers with more pedigree.

However, in 2014 she played her best golf and won the US Women’s Open and finished second at another major, the ANA Inspiration. She had four other victories on the LPGA Tour, the most recent coming in 2018 at the HSBC Women’s Championship.

“I think if I hadn’t won the US Open, I’d still be out there competing week to week trying to get that US Open win,” she told Golfweek.

Wie West said she will spend more time on other projects, including the Nike Athlete Think Tank, a project that promotes women’s sport and also includes Serena Williams among its members. However, Wie West said a return to competition in the future is not out of the question.

“I’m definitely not ruling anything out,” she said.

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PGA Tour: Lexi Thompson to compete in Shriners Children's Open

Lexi Thompson will join Brittany Lincicome, Michelle Wie West, Suzy Whaley, Annika Sorenstam, Shirley Spork and Babe Didrikson Zaharias to compete on the PGA Tour after accepting a sponsor's exemption to play at the Shriners Children's Open

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Lexi Thompson is set to become just the seventh female to compete on the PGA Tour after accepting a sponsor's exemption to play in next week's Shriners Children's Open.

Brittany Lincicome, Michelle Wie West, Suzy Whaley, Annika Sorenstam, Shirley Spork and Babe Didrikson Zaharias are the previous women to have participated in an event on the flagship men's tour.

Thompson, 28, who has won 11 times on the women's equivalent tour and is among its longest hitters as she averages 270 yards off the tee this season, will join the club when she tees off at the event in Las Vegas from October 12-15.

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"Shriners Children's support of children with specialty paediatric medical challenges for over 100 years is inspiring, and as we all know, these conditions do not discriminate," said Thompson.

"I'm hopeful that my ability to play with the men next week at the Shriners Children's Open sends a great message to the young women that you can chase your dream regardless of how hard it is.

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"I cannot wait to come to the city of Las Vegas and I'm grateful to Shriners Children's for this opportunity to spend the week alongside these inspirational kids."

Thompson has form for being a trailblazer as the youngest woman to qualify for the US Women's Open in 2007, aged just 12.

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She also holds the record for being the youngest LPGA champion, aged 16 years, seven months and eight days, after prevailing at the 2011 Navistar LPGA Classic.

"We are thrilled to welcome Lexi to the 2023 tournament," Shriners Children's Open executive director Patrick Lindsey said.

"We are eager to have Lexi on the course and continue to break through barriers."

Watch the Shriners Children's Open live on Sky from Thursday October 12.

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Michelle Wie West Waving Goodbye to Professional Golf Following U.S. Women’s Open

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While many saw it coming, it was still a shock to hear that five-time LPGA Tour winner Michelle Wie West will step away from professional golf following this week’s U.S. Women’s Open presented by ProMedica. The 2014 champion is understandably sad to be leaving the LPGA Tour, but Wie West is looking forward to the opportunities that are on the horizon and is excited to continue her work making golf more diverse and inclusive.

“It was kind of bittersweet always to announce that, but it's something that I've been thinking about for a while,” said Wie West, who joined the LPGA Tour in 2009. “Just to be back here where I won the U.S. Women's Open, obviously not the same golf course but the same area, it feels so amazing to come back and see all the fans and see all the players. It's been an amazing journey, and I'm very excited for what happens next.”

Wie West’s win eight years ago just up the road at Pinehurst No. 2 has been the crowning achievement of the 32-year-old’s career, and while she joked that she couldn’t pick the major venue out of a lineup, the Land of the Pines will always hold a special place in her heart. “I walked in Pinehurst Village this morning to get coffee. Funny enough, I don't remember anything about the week. It just looked like I walked for the first time. I didn't recognize it at all. I think I drove by Pinehurst No. 2 I'm like, ‘Oh, that's a cool golf course.’ They're like, ‘That's Pinehurst No. 2.’ I'm like, I don't remember that at all,” Wie West said with a big laugh. “I think I just blacked out that week. It means everything to me. It was the one tournament I wanted to win ever since I started playing golf. If I hadn't won the 2014 U.S. Open, I definitely wouldn't retire, and I would still be out here playing and chasing that win. That win means everything to me.”

Wie West doesn’t play much golf these days, an understandable change with young daughter Makenna at home, and 2022 has seen her play just once in an LPGA Tour event, a tie for 18th at the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions. With that in mind, rather than focusing on the results, Wie West is more concerned about making the most of her swansong and wants to simply enjoy the walk at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club, savoring one of her last few events as an active LPGA Tour Member, taking the time to stop and smell the proverbial roses and bid a proper farewell to such a large part of her life.

“I'm definitely managing expectations right now. I haven't had the practice schedule that I usually do leading up to a U.S. Open. This week I'm just soaking it all in,” she said. “I have zero regrets in my career. There's always that inkling of wishing I had done more but I feel like no matter what, no one is ever going to be 100 percent satisfied. I have definitely had an up-and-down career, but I'm extremely proud for the resiliency that I've shown over my career. I'm extremely proud to have achieved the two biggest dreams that I've had, one being graduating from Stanford, and the other winning the U.S. Open. To check both those off the list means everything to me.”

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Wie Makes Cut In Men's Golf Tourney

May 5, 2006 / 8:56 AM EDT / CBS/AP

Michelle Wie, 16, made her first cut in a professional men's tournament Friday after shooting a 3-under-par 69 in the Asian Tour's SK Telecom Open.

Wie finished at 5-under 139 after two rounds and was tied for 17th at the Sky 72 Golf Club course, six strokes behind co-leaders Iain Steel of Malaysia (66) and Prom Meesawat of Thailand (64). The cut was set at even-par 144.

"It's just wonderful. Great. I feel really, really happy," Wie said. "Now I want play well tomorrow. It's not over yet."

The Hawaii-born teenager becomes the second woman to make the cut at a men's tournament in South Korea; LPGA star Se Ri Pak finished tied for 10th in the lower-tier KPGA Tour SBS Pro-Golf Championship in 2003.

Wie improved on her opening round of 70 with a near flawless display Friday, dropping just one bogey on the 16th against four birdies.

"My putting was good," she said. "Yesterday was pretty good, but today was better. I was more confident today."

The SK Telecom Open is Wie's eighth start in a men's professional event. She reportedly was paid a $700,000 appearance fee to play in the tournament, says the Honolulu Advertiser. The event has a $600,000 purse.

She played in four PGA Tour events and has also competed on the Japan, Nationwide and Canadian tours, missing the 36-hole cut in all seven tournaments.

Since turning professional last year when she turned 16 — she was born Oct. 11, 1989 — Wie has missed the cut in the PGA's Casio World Open and Sony Open.

"In the future, I still want to challenge the PGA Tour and make the top ten," Wie said.

Annika Sorenstam, the top women's player in the world, became the first woman in 58 years to compete on the PGA Tour when she missed the cut at the 2003 Colonial, shooting rounds of 71 and 74. She has played in men's Skins Games the last two years.

No woman has made the cut on the PGA Tour since Babe Zaharias at the 1945 Tucson Open.

Two years ago, Britain's Laura Davies was given a sponsor's exemption to the ANZ Championship, jointly sponsored by the men's European Tour and Australasian PGA, the first woman to get one on either tour. In the modified Stableford system of scoring, Davies missed the cut with a two-day total of minus-13 points — 40 points behind the second-round leader.

Both of Wie's parents were born in South Korea, and her visit has generated intense media coverage and large galleries following her on the course.

"I'm really happy to make the cut in Korea, and I had such big galleries," she said. "Plus I really love children and there were lots of young fans here today."

Galleries of at least a thousand people gathered around each hole she played and police had to control traffic clogging a nearby expressway that passes the Sky 72 course as onlookers cheered her bunker shot over the bluff on the 16th.

"I really enjoy that kind of thing," Wie said. "Police officers came to the people who stopped their cars and told them to move. The gallery was crowded and they made so much noise. It made me laugh a bit."

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