HIGHLIGHT OF MICHELLE'S YEAR WAS HER FIRST WIN!

The photo on the right shows Michelle holding her first LPGA winning trophy. She WON the Lorena Ochoa Invitational against the top 31 female golfers in the world. She is now back at Stanford but could still play in Dubai in December.(See related stories in our message section) This a Yahoo group, made up of fans of teenage sensation Michelle Wie, 19, of Hawaii. She turned professional in October, 2005, when she signed with Nike and Sony for a reported 10 million dollars. She also signed a contract with the William Morris Agency, who will be acting as her agents. Members of this group can post messages, photos and files. For anyone who likes Michelle, and would like to follow her career from week to week, we invite you to join us and become one of the fortunate golf fans, who will be rooting for her as she finishes college at Stanford, and eventually joins the LPGA tour, and continues to play against men also. In the 2nd Professional start of her career (the first one was a DQ), Michelle finished 3rd in the Fields Open, earning her first pacheck of $73,227. She was only one shot from the lead, and beat fellow young guns Morgan Pressel and Paula Creamer by 5 shots. Michelle tied for 3rd, missing a playoff by one shot, and won $108,227 in her her first major as a pro, the Kraft Nabisco. She also won the Golf World's magazine Newsmaker Of The Year award for females, beating out Annika Sorenstam, Paula Creamer and Morgan Pressel. The following is what Rob Stanger wrote when he nominated Michelle: "Yes, it's the obvious choice for golf's Newsmaker Of The Year, since Michelle Wie seemed to make headlines every time she teed off. In her first seven starts in 2005, Wie had four top-3 finishes -- two of them in majors. Since she didn't turn professional until October, she couldn't accept the $670,000 she would've earned (and that would've put her 12th on the money list