As the New York Times announced, yesterday Annika Sorenstam joined fellow leading lady Michelle Wie in acquiring a new type of handicap, the incapacitating injury.
Michelle was forced to drop out of competitive play this February due to an injured wrist (she fell while jogging). Then Annika withdrew from a tournament yesterday, with a ruptured disk, leaving her out of commission for at least one month.
Is true equality on the green a bad idea? Sorenstam paved the way
back in 2003 by joining PGA competition at The Colonial. Then high school freshman
Wie made the leap in 2004, at the Sony Open in her home state of Hawaii. Things were looking great, just last year Michelle Wie was ranked #74 on the Forbes list of
The Top 100 Celebrities, and Annika sat at
#91. But now the Times highlights how disappearing from competition is affecting the popular status of these LPGA hot-shots.
On Michelle,
Golf columnist Damon Hack concludes,
As the New York Times announced, yesterday Annika Sorenstam joined fellow leading lady Michelle Wie in acquiring a new type of handicap, the incapacitating injury.
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