The LPGA is coming to Blackwolf Run for the US Women's Open golf tournament this July. This is one of a series of features on some of the players.....Michelle Wie has become known for her mighty swing-a powerful cannon-shot of a drive that seems to send balls deep into the atmosphere. Shortly after she started playing at the tender age of four, she could drive the ball 100 yards, and by the age of 13, her swing had become so powerful that PGA golf champion Fred Couples was inspired to call it "the scariest thing you've ever seen." The only child of Byung-Wook "B.J." Wie and Bo Wie, who immigrated to Hawaii from South Korea, Michelle was just 10 years, eight months and 23 days old when she became the then-youngest qualifier ever for a USGA women's amateur championship at the 2000 U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship. At 15, Michelle became the first female golfer to qualify for a USGA national men's championship at the 2005 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship, telling Time magazine that she hoped to become the first woman to play at The Masters.
