Wie ready for 'roller coaster' ride at PGA tourney

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press Writer RENO, Nev. — On the side of a mountain hugging the edge of the Sierra Nevada, Michelle Wie is anxious and a bit nervous to tee it up with the men on the PGA Tour for the first time this year. "I still get butterflies," said Wie, who the Reno sports books have made a 500-1 longshot in her first PGA Tour event since the Sony Open in her home state of Hawai'i in January 2007. "It's a cool kind of excitement," the 18-year-old part-time Stanford student told reporters before she began practicing this week for the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open that tees off Thursday. "It's almost like right before you go on a roller coaster — like kind of half-scared, half really excited, knowing everything is going to be all right," Not everyone is convinced it will be all right. Annika Sorenstam said at the... [read full story]