Michelle, you and Rickie Fowler are my favourite golfers! You helped me love golf, so thank you!! :D I don't play as well as you, but I'm trying. - Katie Lahk
Michelle Wie started golfing at a little over four years old in her home state of Hawaii. Her father, B.J. Wie, started teaching her. By the time she was 11, Michelle was regularly winning most of the amateur tournaments she played in and was even playing better than most men. She decided she wanted to become a pro-golfer after watching Tiger Woods play. She has pictures of Tiger all over her bedroom and now goes to Stanford University, just like Tiger did...
"She's probably going to influence the golfing scene as much as Tiger, or more. She's going to attract people that even Tiger didn't attract, young people, both boys and girls, and families."
- Arnold Palmer about Michelle Wie in 2003.