12 to watch in 2002
Michelle Wie

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At 10, Michelle Wie became the youngest to qualify in a USGA event. Last year, she advanced to the third round of the National Women's Public Links and became the youngest as well as the first female to qualify and play in the Manoa Cup, symbolic of the Hawaiian Amateur Golf Championship, which was first played in 1907.

Though Wie, a Punahou School seventh-grader, won't be able to play for her high school team for two more years, that won't stop her from looking for challenges on the golf course. This year, she hopes to qualify for more national tournaments, such as the USGA Women's Amateur and the USGA Girls Championship.