SOUTHERN PINES: Having a US Women’s Open title to her name will allow Michelle Wie to retire with a sense of mission accomplished, the former child prodigy said on Tuesday as she prepared for this week’s US$10 million championship at Pine Needles.
Wie, 32, recently announced that her full-time playing days are over, with nothing in her future plans between this week’s US Women’s Open in North Carolina and next year’s event at Pebble Beach in California.
“It was kind of bittersweet to announce that, but it’s something that I’ve been thinking about for a while,” she said of her decision.
Wie won the US Women’s Open at nearby Pinehurst No.2 in 2014, the biggest of…
