As most people know by now, golfer Michelle Wie's golf playing career has really hit the skids. The one-time teen prodigy has fallen off the map in competitive womens golf.

Saturday Wie completed her best round of the season shooting a 5 under 67 at the State Farm Classic. The score put her in second place at the tournament. That is WOULD HAVE put her in second place. Even on the ONE day of the year that Wie managed to play well she still managed to find disaster.

Michelle Wie forgot to sign her scorecard. She was disqualified from the tournament by the LPGA. The now 18-year-old Wie was seen crying after the disqualification.

That's a very sad way to lose a golf tournament for someone with a Stanford education.

Source: By Mike Responts Blog http://mikeresponts.wordpress.com/

According to Wikipedia on December 20, 2007, it was announced that Michelle Wie would not receive one of four available sponsor exemptions to play in the January 2008 Sony Open in Hawaii, an event she played in each year since 2004.

Also in December 2007, Wie's coach, David Leadbetter had said that Wie planned to play in the 2008 SBS Open and/or the Fields Open in Hawaii the following week. When, on January 15, 2008, it was announced that she also did not receive an exemption to the SBS Open at Turtle Bay on the LPGA Tour beginning February 14,[31] an event at which she had finished second in 2005. it became clear that she would not have the opportunity to play both events. On January 24, it was announced that Wie had received a sponsor's exemption to play in the Fields Open and would accept the invitation. She previously played in the event, which takes place at the Ko Olina Resort, referred to by the Golf Director as Wie's "home course," in 2006 and finished third. At the 2008 tournament, Wie shot rounds of 69, 73 and 78 and finished tied for 72nd, last among all players who made the cut.

Following the tournament Michelle Wie announced that she planned to withdraw from Stanford University at the end of the winter quarter in mid-March[33] to focus full-time on golf. It was later announced that Wie had been offered, and accepted, sponsor exemptions to the Safeway International and Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill tournaments on the LPGA Tour, to be played in March and May, respectively. On March 21, Wie announced that she had injured her wrist practicing the week before and would not be able to play in the Safeway International. The injury was described by Wie's agent as a non-serious sprain to her left wrist.

At the Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill, beginning May 8, Wie shot rounds of 75 and 71, missing the cut by four strokes.

On May 27, it was announced that Wie would play in a Ladies European Tour event for the first time, accepting a sponsor invitation to play in the Ladies German Open later that week. She finished in sixth place at the tournament, seven strokes behind the winner, fellow eighteen year-old Amy Yang.

On June 9, Wie played in Rockville, Maryland at a sectional qualifier for the 2008 U.S. Women's Open. She finished in second place at the qualifier, earning one of the 35 qualification spots available at that qualifier. Her first round of the Open resulted in a score of eight-over-par 81. In the second round, Wie bogeyed the fourth, fifth and eighth on her way to a 10-over total of 156. The cut fell at four over with 74 players advancing to the third round.

On July 19, 2008, Wie was disqualified from the State Farm Classic for failing to sign her second round scorecard. She was in the middle of the third round when the violation was discovered however, the event organizers decided to wait until the conclusion of the third round to notify her that she was disqualified to give her an opportunity to explain what had happened. She was -17 after the third round, which was one stroke off the lead and would have left her in contention for her first LPGA victory had she not been disqualified.