{"id":12551,"date":"2012-03-09T19:03:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T19:03:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-09T19:03:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T19:03:11","slug":"Michelle-Wie-graduates-will-focus-100-on-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=12551","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Wie graduates will focus 100% on golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hawaii-native and current Stanford student Michelle Wie, 22, is looking forward to graduate from the University she has called \u201chome\u201d for 5 years and is ready to focus on golf 100%. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBig Wiesy\u201d is scheduled to graduate with a Major in Communications in March and walk in June.  Many golf experts are expecting big things in 2012 from the golfer who has been hyped to do \u201cgreat things\u201d since she was 16.  With the distraction of Stanford \u201cout of the way,\u201d the 6 foot Korean-American can finally focus on the sport full-time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wie didn\u2019t win a tournament in 2011 but she finished 18th on the LPGA money list and in the Rolex rankings.<\/strong>   For those who criticized Wie for being \u201con-and-off\u201d the tour, she entered 20 out of the 23 tournaments she entered, all the while carrying 18-20 credits at Stanford.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Despite not winning last year, Wie is still a hot commodity in the endorsement world<\/strong> starring in ads for McDonalds, Kia, and Direct Buy Home Furnishings Club. <\/p>\n<p><strong>No other LPGA golfer has the same exposure she\u2019s had commercially.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David Leadbetter, Wie\u2019s longtime instructor told Golf Weekly, \u201cher best golf is ahead of her. \u201c  He also said that there are no questions of her being \u201cburnt out\u201d on the sport because she became a student-athlete at Stanford and she used golf as an \u201coutlet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Golf experts predict that now Wie has finished at Stanford, she could either come out \u201crefreshed and hungry\u201d<\/strong> or bow down to the pressures of the sport that expected a lot out of her.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source www.golfchannel.com<\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaii-native and current Stanford student Michelle Wie, 22, is looking forward to graduate from the University she has called 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