the First Test of Michelle Wie’s Ankle

After Michelle Wie withdrawal from the LPGA Tour Championship?she will play the Dubai Ladies Masters this week?a tournament on the Ladies European Tour schedule. This is a chance for her to test her ankle.

That WD happened just a couple weeks ago. Since then, an MRI revealed no serious damage to the ankle - just a sprain with some tendinitis. Wie was fitted with a walking boot, which she has worn in the interim, and she'll be playing the tournament with the ankle taped, as it was during her breakthrough victory at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational.

So far this week in Dubai, during practice and during a Par-3 Challenge Match, the ankle has been OK. Also playing in Dubai this week are Christina Kim, Laura Davies, In-Kyung Kim, Julieta Granada, Sophie Gustafson, Maria Hjorth, Anna Nordqvist and Karen Stupples.

Wie's ankle isn't the only thing being tested this week - so is Wie's command of her statistics class at Stanford. It's finals week, and Wie is spending her evenings in Dubai studying.

a joke:A quick nine holes
An valid young golfer found himself with a few hours to spare one afternoon. He thought if he hurried and played very fast, he could get in 9 holes before he had to head home.

Just as he was about to tee off an old gentleman shuffled onto the tee and asked if he could accompany the young man as he was golfing alone.

Not being able to say no, he allowed the old gent to join him.

To his surprise the old man played fairly quickly. He didn't hit the ball far, but plodded along consistently and didn't waste much time.

Finally, they reached the 9th fairway and the young man found himself with a tough shot. There was a large pine tree right in front of his ball - and directly between his ball and the green.

After several minutes of debating how to hit the shot the old man finally said, "You know, when I was your age I'd hit the ball right over that tree."

With that challenge placed before him, the youngster swung hard, hit the ball up, right smack into the top of the tree trunk and it thudded back on the ground not a foot from where it had originally lay.

The old man offered one more comment, "Of course, when I was your age that pine tree was only 3 feet tall."

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