Michelle Wie West opens up on 1 regret

Michelle Wie admits she was “old fashioned.”

However she’s additionally envious. 

“I want I had the science and expertise that the children have entry to now,” Wie West stated. 

The 2014 U.S Ladies’s Open winner was speaking on the latest episode of “On the Street with Iona” — and it’s right here the place we’ll say a full viewing of the YouTube video may be very a lot price your time, as host Iona Stephen meticulously covers a whole lot of floor. Of specific notice, although, Stephen requested about regretted recommendation.  

In response, Wie West, who moved on from aggressive golf after last year’s U.S. Open, stated there wasn’t one factor — however she stated she wished she might change a perception. For readability, the whole alternate is under, beginning with Stephen’s query:

“Was there any recommendation that you simply suppose you remorse? Possibly even when it was from a training standpoint that you simply practiced, otherwise you adopted that path, then went down it and noticed truly, no, this has been a waste of time, I shouldn’t have executed this.” 

“Hmm, I can’t actually consider one,” Wie West stated on the video. “I simply suppose it’s just like the old-school perception of you bought to hit balls till your fingers bleed. I believe again within the day, earlier than you had all this science and expertise, it was amount over high quality, in truth. And it’s simply, who can keep on the market the longest. And also you hear all of the Tiger Woods mentality, of operating on the treadmill with a weighted vest and all of the tales about you’re taking your glove off and your fingers are bleeding, and that was the aim. 

“And I want I hadn’t executed that. I felt like I might’ve had an extended enjoying profession with a more healthy physique. In order that’s one factor I undoubtedly do remorse is, hitting that many balls on a mat. As a result of it wasn’t even grass — it was simply mat. And also you’re hitting off of concrete at that time. I want I had the science and expertise that the children have entry to now.”

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Notably, in a 2020 interview with GolfTV, Woods said something similar when requested what he’d inform his youthful self, answering: “To not run a lot. Working over 30 miles per week for in all probability my first 5, six years on Tour just about destroyed my physique and my knees.”

On the video with Stephen, Wie West was then requested about Woods, the 15-time main winner. She’d been typically in comparison with him, the host stated, and Stephen puzzled what that was like.  

“I don’t know,” Wie West stated on the video. “It was like — I imply, clearly once I was a child, that was like, oh, it’s so cool, and I believe there was truly a quote on the market, it was like, ‘I’m going to beat Tiger by the point I’m 18.’ And I look again and I’m like, you dumb individual. However that’s the cockiness that you need to have whenever you’re a child and doing the loopy issues that you’re doing. In the event you don’t have that confidence, I wouldn’t have been in a position to do half the issues I might have executed. So I’m grateful for that.