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Sure Thing: The Making and Unmaking of Golf Phenom Michelle Wie

Eric Adelson

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Description:Michelle Wie couldn t miss. No way. Big success? It was only a matter of time. At four she could drive a golf ball a hundred yards. At ten she was outdriving adult male golfers in her Honolulu hometown from the back tees. At thirteen she won the Women s Amateur Public Links, becoming the youngest person ever to win a USGA championship. The next year she was playing in LPGA and" "PGA Tour tournaments. At sixteen she was earning eight figures in endorsements. Yet by the time she turned eighteen, Michelle Wie was already branded a failure, a has-been, a victim of injuries, bad choices, and worst of all really terrible putting. How was it possible? How did this happen? How did she go from being the next big thing to the latest big bust? The Sure Thing is" "a gripping and intimate portrait of the meteoric rise, fall, and uncertain future of the greatest sports phenom of the twenty-first century. Award-winning writer Eric Adelson takes us inside Michelle Wie s world, showing her to be a bubbly, astonishingly normal girl trapped in a world of outsize expectations. In chronicling Wie s career, Adelson establishes a new gold standard for reporting on the growing convergence of professional sports, marketing, and mass entertainment in the Internet Age. "From the Hardcover edition.""We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sure Thing: The Making and Unmaking of Golf Phenom Michelle Wie. To get started finding Sure Thing: The Making and Unmaking of Golf Phenom Michelle Wie, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: ESPN Video

Release: 2014

ISBN: 1299254934

Description: Michelle Wie couldn t miss. No way. Big success? It was only a matter of time. At four she could drive a golf ball a hundred yards. At ten she was outdriving adult male golfers in her Honolulu hometown from the back tees. At thirteen she won the Women s Amateur Public Links, becoming the youngest person ever to win a USGA championship. The next year she was playing in LPGA and" "PGA Tour tournaments. At sixteen she was earning eight figures in endorsements. Yet by the time she turned eighteen, Michelle Wie was already branded a failure, a has-been, a victim of injuries, bad choices, and worst of all really terrible putting. How was it possible? How did this happen? How did she go from being the next big thing to the latest big bust? The Sure Thing is" "a gripping and intimate portrait of the meteoric rise, fall, and uncertain future of the greatest sports phenom of the twenty-first century. Award-winning writer Eric Adelson takes us inside Michelle Wie s world, showing her to be a bubbly, astonishingly normal girl trapped in a world of outsize expectations. In chronicling Wie s career, Adelson establishes a new gold standard for reporting on the growing convergence of professional sports, marketing, and mass entertainment in the Internet Age. "From the Hardcover edition.""We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sure Thing: The Making and Unmaking of Golf Phenom Michelle Wie. To get started finding Sure Thing: The Making and Unmaking of Golf Phenom Michelle Wie, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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