{"id":9696,"date":"2011-07-20T03:07:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T03:07:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-20T03:07:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T03:07:57","slug":"Wie-not-ready-to-drop-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=9696","title":{"rendered":"Wie not ready to drop college"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michelle Wie said ahead of this week’s Evian Masters that she is not ready to leave Stanford University<\/strong> and concentrate all her energies on golf.<\/p>\n

The former teen sensation was reacting to criticism from Swedish golfing legend Annika Sorenstam <\/a>that she was spending too much time studying and was not playing enough golf.<\/p>\n

Answering this accusation, the Hawaiian-bred American said: “Looking back at my stats and tournaments that I’ve played, I note that this year I’ve played in every single event except one.<\/p>\n

“So I’ve been doing my best (to play as much tournament golf as (possible)<\/p>\n

“I love being out here. Obviously I want to be the best player that I can be; I want to win majors; I want to win tournaments; and I’m working very hard at that. Right now that’s my No. 1 goal, especially during the summer holidays. And even if I’m at school, you know, I don’t go to school full time. I have to go part time because obviously I do play, and I play in almost every tournament.”<\/p>\n

Wie, who comes from an academic family of Korean-born parents, said education had always been important to her ever since she was a child.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Knowledge and education are very powerful tools for young adults and while I also believe that my sporting career is also important, I don’t want to have to give up my education.<\/p>\n

“I also believe that college is a lot more than just education and books.<\/strong> I think it was a very important step for me to go to Stanford and to experience living on campus, kind of making it on my own, you might say.<\/p>\n

“People that have gone to college know that you do grow. For me, being out here spending a lot of time (in golf) when I was younger, it forced me to grow up a lot faster. I think I needed this step in my life, and I don’t regret any of it.”<\/p>\n

Wie’s top priority this week, though, has nothing to do with books unless it’s the little one that holds all the course information about the picturesque Evian-Les-Bains in France<\/strong> where she will be teeing it up this week against the World’s 111 best golfer competing for the LPGA’s fattest purse ($.25 million) at the Evian Masters. <\/p>\n

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