\u201cMy husband was talking me off a ledge the whole round. Golf can take you places and I went places,\u201d Wie West said with a laugh Thurday.<\/p>\n
\u201cDark, very dark. It got very grim. Hole two. Hole two, hole three, hole five. No, Seven was good. Hole nine \u2014 that was dark.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Michelle Wie West during the Mizuho Americas Open. Getty Images<\/p>\n
West announced earlier this year she would be returning after retiring in 2023 and this tourney is allowing her to get the competitive juices flowing again in preparation for her final U.S. Open next month.<\/p>\n
Even with an incredible resume that includes five LPGA wins, including the 2014 U.S. Open, the 36-year-old felt butterflies again when she began her round Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t nervous going in and then I get to the first tee and I\u2019m like holy (s\u2013t), I now spell my curse words because I\u2019m a mom, and I was like, \u2018Wow, the hole all of a sudden looks so small,’\u201d shoe joked. \u201cI go out to a two-footer and I was like, \u2018I\u2019m not going to hit the hole, there\u2019s no way.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cI think I was shocked at how nervous I got.\u201d<\/p>\n
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West shot 10-over on Thursday. Getty Images<\/p>\n
The first nine went particularly bad for Wie West with three bogeys and two double-bogeys while shooting an 8-over 44, but she found her footing on the back nine with a pair of birdies to shoot a 2-over 38.<\/p>\n
She noted that she felt she made four good shots on the 12th hole while making par, which aided her confidence, and then birdied two of the next three holes.<\/p>\n
Wie West will have roughly one month between this event and next month\u2019s U.S. Open to be held at Riviera Golf Course in California from June 4-7.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, I\u2019m so happy I played today ahead of U.S. Open,\u201d Wie West said. \u201cAs much practice as you can do, as many games as you can play, there\u2019s literally nothing in the world that compares to the first round of a tournament. I thought today was a great experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good thing this just the tuneup. Michelle Wie West admitted her first competitive golf round in three years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,243277,82],"class_list":["post-657108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-michelle-wie","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}