Wie, Daly partnered in Skins Game
Advertiser Staff
After three weeks of high school, Michelle Wie is back in the golf trenches. She will be John Daly's partner in today's Kraft/Nabisco Skins Game at Hillcrest Country Club in Boise, Idaho. They will play against LPGA Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez and Hank Kuehne.
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Wie is in Idaho to play this week's Albertsons Boise Open. The Punahou freshman will be the first junior amateur female to compete in a PGA Tour-sanctioned event.
Michelle Wie will be John Daly's partner in today's Kraft/Nabisco Skins Game.
She received a sponsor's exemption into the Nationwide Tour stop from The Golf Channel, which will show today's nine-hole Skins Game and all four days of the Boise Open live beginning Thursday.
Earlier this summer, Wie became the youngest golfer to win a U.S. Golf Association "adult" national championship when she captured the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links. She also became the youngest to make the cut at the U.S. Women's Open.
Golf Channel gave her a sponsor's exemption into the Canadian Tour's Bay Mills Open, where she missed the cut in her first competition against men outside of Hawai'i.
Wie and Daly, a two-time major champion who has led the tour's Driving Distance category 11 consecutive years, will represent Boise State in today's exhibition. Lopez and Kuehne will represent the University of Idaho. The purse is $25,000 with all winnings distributed to the schools' golf programs.
Kuehne, a PGA Tour rookie, currently leads the tour in driving at nearly 320 yards.
Also today, 1996 Hawai'i high school state champion Parker McLachlin will try to qualify for the Boise Open. The field already includes 1989 Kamehameha Schools graduate Keoke Cotner.
