Five time LPGA Tour winner Michelle Wie West is the latest player to join the new Women’s Tomorrow’s Golf League (WTGL).
Wie West is likely most known for her early career, where she found success at an unusually young age. She became the youngest player in LPGA Tour history to make the cut in Palm Desert at just 13-years-old and was in the final group on Sunday. She later made the cut that same year at the U.S. Women’s Open.
In that incredible 2003 season, Wie West was the youngest player, men or women, to ever win an adult USGA event at the Women’s Amateur Public Links, an event she first qualified for at 10-years-old.
Wie West made her PGA Tour debut at 14-years-old, the youngest female player to ever play on the men’s tour in her home state of Hawaii. She shot 68 in the second round that week but missed the cut by one stroke.
Because of this extreme early success, some viewed Wie West’s LPGA career as a bit of a let down. She still won five events between 2009 and 2018, including her only major championship at the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open. Wie West was also a solid Solheim Cup performer, playing on five United States teams and building up an 8-9-1 record.
Wie West retired in 2022, playing her final round on the LPGA Tour at Pebble Beach in the U.S. Women’s Open. Since then she has been one of the strongest advocates and voices for women’s golf and the LPGA specifically. She has also been an investor in the men’s TGL as part of the Los Angeles team.
Wie West joins Lexi Thompson, Rose Zhang, Lottie Woad, Charley Hull, Jeeno Thitikul, Lydia Ko and Brooke Henderson on the WTGL roster, that is expected to first play later this winter.
