A Wie Line in the Sand | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

It’s been a bit of a circus, I guess you could say. Morgan Pressel

On the heels of Ron Sirak’s reporting from Havre de Grace comes an excellent piece on Michelle Wie’s struggle by Jim McCabe in the Boston Globe. Sirak concluded that the Wie controversy and player backlash had caused the LPGA to get tougher…on pro-am protocol, on entourage rules (only players and caddies on the range, for example), on special treatment in general:

__The problem Wie has now that is perhaps greater than her wrist injury is that LPGA players are growing weary of her special treatment, and LPGA officials took a major step toward responding to those concerns among its constituency by drawing a line in the grass concerning several issues Tuesday at Bulle Rock.

“It’s been a bit of a circus, I guess you could say. That’s for sure,” said Pressel, who at the tender age of 19 appears wise beyond her years with …