Michelle Wie

Michelle Wie just turned pro, still 15 years old, still in high school, getting her an immediate $10 million a year in sponsors, making her the richest woman in golf and like the third richest female athlete, only Maria Sharapova and Serena Willians ahead of her: all dynamite chicks for looks as well as athletics. Michelle wants to play on the LPGA tour and on the PGA tour and to become the first woman to play in a Masters.

There are those who think that the PGA and the LPGA should be kept distinct: like "separate but equal." For golf, for sports, I see a lot of wisdom to that: so long as there is then also an open which is truly open. Could Michelle Wie make the cut in a real open? I doubt it, but perhaps we’ll see. My emphasis is that the PGA, with its understood "male," should have its limitations a bit more clearly understood. What’s excluded should always be spelled out: but never to seldom is.