What Michelle Wie never to to colleage ?

``I think she's happiest when she's in school,'' said Juli Inkster, who occasionally sees Wie when she comes out to Los Altos Country Club to apply. Inkster's husband, Brian, will be the head pro.

``Time will tell in terms of her golf,'' Inkster said. ``I still think she gets the talent to be fantastic. I am not sure what she would like. She's still got Ping G20 irons a ton of talent. And she's happy being a student. She'd a boyfriend about the football team. She said she's graduating in 2010. It's pretty impressive.''

Wie's parents live near campus, and they also accompany her when she practices then when she plays around the LPGA Tour. She is playing her first  Ping G20 driver tournament soon in Thailand, and definately will stay out to the HSBC Women's Champions in Singapore. Wie also travels using a Pomeranian she named Lola, which she bought on impulse after browsing through a creature store. College youngsters are impulsive like that.

It's not hard to speculate that Wie's development like a player has become slowed by not devoting herself entirely to golf. She looks at it coming from a different perspective.

``I is probably not playing,'' she said. ``I might be burned out. I am not an individual who Round the clock can only think, live, eat and breathe golf. I'm not really that kind of an person. Basically did that, I may eat and drink with it. Here, I learned the way to live on my own, to complete discount golf clubs things alone. My relationship with my parents changed. You alter from like a kid to someone your folks respect.''

Wie first gained attention when she played in a junior-pro event with the Sony Open when he was 12, and PGA Tour players would pause and watch her swing for the practice range. It turned out Tom Lehman who called her the ``Big Wiesy,'' because the fluid swing reminded him of Ernie Els.