One of these days Michelle Wie is going to win an LPGA Tour event.

No, really, it will happen.

Hopefully this week at the Sybase Classic in New Jersey. Perhaps this summer. But eventually.

And when she does win you hope that whomever has been programming her public comments and gagging all but her most innocuous utterings will let loose the reins and allow her to be herself, genuine and heartfelt, for once.

To endure a Wie press conference — or read the transcripts from one — these days is to shake your head and wonder whatever happened to the 14-year-old who could be so refreshing? Where did the 15-year-old with the sense of humor and easy banter go? And whatever became of the 16-year-old with so much press tent charisma?

Because, now at age 19, it has been a while since there have been any sightings of or sound bites from those Wies.

Now it is pretty much fill-in-the-blanks stuff. Unconvincing platitudes and banalities. So scripted are her comments that one tournament is pretty much the same as another. In that, the Sybase could have been any other she has played in the past year. "You know I've had some ups and downs..." Wie parrots. "It is a work in progress..." she almost yawns. "I'm having a lot of fun out there..." she maintains, unconvincingly.

At the SBS Open at Turtle Bay earlier this year Wie did portions of a press conference in English and, then, a smattering of Korean. When a member of the Korean media was asked about what she said in the ancestral language, he quipped, "She doesn't say anything in any language anymore."

Wie has changed agents and handlers but the heavily guarded, predictable dialogue continues. Too bad, too, because the years have shown her to be intelligent and articulate. Engaging, too. When she wants to be. Or, more likely, when she is permitted to be.

You'd hardly imagine there was another side from the robotic quotes churned out these days. You'd never know she was in her second year at Stanford.

To be sure Wie has to be careful in what she says lest something reflect poorly on her multi-million dollar sponsors. But history has shown that her public relations gaffes have usually come when her words have been tightly scripted and stilted, not free flowing and from the heart.

The vast difference in this area is among the things that make Tadd Fujikawa so popular.

One of these days Wie is going to get her overdue breakthrough LPGA victory. Hopefully soon. But when she does, it would be both nice and serve her well if it came with a glimpse of the real Wie. The genuine one we still remember, not the cliched stand-in.