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Published on: 8/1/2006
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The question on most peoples minds isn't will Michelle Wie find another caddie after firing Greg Johnston but will she win a tournament in next years season.
Forget about her making the cut in a men's tournament, if her agent and her father Know what's best for her image they'll refuse her sponsors exemptions and focus on winning something.
Even if she does make the cut, my guess is there will still be a lot of grumbling from critics, especially if it's before she wins an LPGA event.
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Done so soon, it seems like the LPGA tour just got started and Michelle Wie just started to get on a, well, somewhat of a roll, minus the season ending with a poor finish at the Women's British Open and Michelle Wie firing her Caddie Greg Johnston.
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The Honolulu Advertiser, a local newspaper to the islands of Hawaii, recently published a not so shocking support article to Wie's decision (or should we assume her father's decision) to fire caddie Greg Johnston.
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Also blaming her poor putting, as the article did, on Johnston is a bit of a far jab at support.
I don't see Greg Johnston in huge sunglasses and big hoop earings trying to putt.
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Yesterday, Michelle Wie's camp announced that Greg Johnston would no longer be her caddie.
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The Wie family brought Johnston on last year in a take it or leave it type deal that basically swiped him from veteran LPGA tour player Julie Inkster.
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66. "I'd had Greg for 11 years.