Michelle Wie Timeline
By Brent Kelley, About.com

1989
• Born to parents B.J. and Bo in Honolulu. Middle name is "Sung." (Hey, it's our timeline, we can call "being born" an accomplishment if we want to!)

1994
• Begins playing golf at the age of four.

1996
• At age 7, plays her first 18-hole round and finishes 14-over par.

2001
• Wins the Hawaii State Women’s Stroke Play Championship. At age 11, Wie is the event's youngest winner.
• Wins the Jennie K. Wilson Invitational, the most prestigious women's amateur tournament in Hawaii. At age 11, Wie is the event's youngest winner.
• Reaches the third round of match play in the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship.

2002
• At age 12, becomes the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA tournament by Monday qualifying (with an 83) for the LPGA Takefuji Classic.
• Wins the Women's Division of the Hawaii State Open by 13 strokes.
• Reaches the semifinals of the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship, the youngest semifinalist in the event's history.

2003
• January: Attempts to Monday qualify for the PGA Sony Open. Shoots 73, finishes 47th out of 97. She played from the men's tees and all other competitors were men.
• February: Playing in the Hawaii Pearl Open, a pro tournament that includes players from the Japan Tour, places 43rd. Wie is the only female in the field.
• March: Finishes in a fourth-place tie at the Hawaii State Amateur Stroke Play Championship as one of only three women in the field.
• March: Plays in her first LPGA major, the Kraft Nabisco Championship. Plays in the final group on the final day befor settling for 9th place. Becomes the youngest player to make an LPGA cut.
• June: Wins the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship, one of the USGA's national championships. At age 13, Wie is the youngest-ever winner of the event.
• August: Shoots 74-79 and misses the cut by five strokes in the Canadian Tour's Bay Mills Open Players' Championship - her first professional men's event in the mainland U.S.
• September: As the only female in the field at the Nationwide Tour's Albertsons Boise Open, Wie shoots 78-76 and misses the cut. She turns 14 in a month.
• September: Wie finishes her final LPGA event of the year, the Safeway Classic, at 2-under par, tied for 28th place. She shoots 69-72-73 for a 214 total. It is the fifth time in six LPGA events in 2003 that she makes the cut.

2004
• January: Plays in her first PGA Tour event, the Sony Open, and shoots 72-68. She misses the cut by one stroke.
• March: Finishes in the Top 25 in her first LPGA event of the year, the Safeway International, then finishes 4th in the first LPGA major of the year, the Kraft Nabisco Championship.
• June: As a member of the U.S. team, is the youngest golfer in the history of the Curtis Cup. Wins both her singles matches to help the U.S. defeat Great Britain & Ireland, 10-8.
• June: Playing in a qualifier for the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship (a k a, the Men's Publinx), Michelle Wie shoots 71-71--142. She finishes two strokes behind the winners and, while she fails to earn a bid to the Men's Publinx, she earns status as one of four alternates for the event.

2005
• January: Shoots 75-74 at the PGA Tour Sony Open and misses the cut. Finishes ahead of 14 PGA Tour players.
• February: Earns her highest finish to date in an LPGA event, tied for second, at the SBS Open at Turtle Bay.
• May: Finishes as third alternate in U.S. Open sectional qualifying. Wie is believed to be the first female ever to enter a U.S. Open qualifier.
• June: Places second to Annika Sorenstam at the LPGA Championship, tying her best finish to date in an LPGA event and marking her best finish to date in an LPGA major.
• June: Is the third-round leader at the U.S. Women's Open, but stumbles to an 82 in the final round.
• July: Shoots 70-71 (1-under par) at the PGA Tour John Deere Classic, missing the cut by two strokes.
• July: Wie reaches the quarterfinals of the (traditionally men's) U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship before bowing out.
• October: Just a few days before her 16th birthday, Wie announces she is turning professional.
• October: In her first pro start, Wie finishes fourth at the Samsung World Championship, only to be disqualified for an improper drop.
• November: Shoots 73-75 in Casio World Open on the Japanese men's tour, misses cut by 1

2006
• January: Shoots 79-68 in PGA Tour Sony Open, misses cut.
• February: First official women's world golf rankings debut, with Wie at No. 3.
• March: Finishes second at the first LPGA major, the Kraft Nabisco Championship, after Karrie Webb holes out from the fairway for an eagle on No. 18.
• May: Make cut in SK Telecom Open on the traditionally men-only Asian Tour.
• May: Wie wins a U.S. Open local qualifier in Hawaii, becoming the first woman to advance to the sectional qualifying stage.
• June: Shoots 68-75 to finish at 1-over par in her U.S. Open sectional qualifier, not good enough to advance into the Open.

2007
• January: Shoots 78-76 and finishes near the bottom at the PGA Tour Sony Open.
• February: Announces she won't be playing in the LPGA Tour's two Hawaii tournaments after injuring her wrist during a fall. The injury will keep her out of action until the end of May.
• May: Michelle Wie's instructor David Leadbetter announces that Wie will - at least for the time being - forego playing any more men's tournaments. Wie later accepts a sponsors exemption into the PGA Tour John Deere Classic, negating Leadbetter's comments.
• June: Returning from three months away with wrist injuries (including a fractured wrist), Wie begins her first tournament back, the Ginn Tribute, at 14-over par through 16 holes and withdraws. The next week at the LPGA Championship she makes the cut but finishes last, 35 shots behind the winner.
• June Wie withdraws from the U.S. Women's Open midway through the second round after aggravating a wrist injury. She is 17-over through 27 holes at the time of the withdrawal.
• October: After missing the cut in three previous events, Wie finishes 19th - in a 20-woman field - at the Samsung World Championship.

2008
• February: It is announced early in the year that Wie will not play any men's tournaments this year. Her LPGA season begins at the Fields Open, where she makes the cut but finishes 72nd. A first-round 69 shows major improvement over 2007, but she closes with a 78.
• June: Playing on the Ladies European Tour, Wie fashions a sixth-place showing at the German Open that includes three sub-70 rounds.
• June: Wie finishes 24th at the Wegmans LPGA, her first Top 25 finish in a full-field event since mid-2006.
• June: Wie misses the cut in the U.S. Women's Open after shooting 81 in the first round. That 81 included a 9 on one hole.
• July: Wie completes play in the third round of the LPGA State Farm Classic one stroke off the lead, with rounds of 67-65-67, by far her best performance in two years. And the 65 in Round 2 ties her personal best on any tour. Except that it doesn't count - after the third round, Wie is disqualified for failing to sign her scorecard following the second round.
• August: Wie misses the cut in the PGA Tour Reno-Tahoe Open after a second-round 80 that includes a quintuple bogey. She posted a 1-over 73 in the first round.
• August: In her final LPGA appearance of 2008, Wie is 12th at the Canadian Women's Open. She earns around $36,000, but well short of the total needed to earn a Tour card for 2009.
• December: Wie earns membership on the LPGA Tour by finishing seventh at Q-School.