Player Bio: Michelle Wie West2021 U.S. Women's Open

Age: 31
Country: United States of America
College: Stanford
Worldwide professional victories: 5
Road to Olympic: 2014 U.S. Women's Open champion

The former child prodigy broke through for her first major championship at Pinehurst Resort & Country Club's Course No. 2, holding off Stacy Lewis by two strokes to claim the 2014 U.S. Women's Open. It ended a historic week for the resort as it hosted the U.S. Open a week earlier, becoming the first venue to conduct the two championships in the same year. Wie first competed in a USGA championship at age 10 when she qualified for the 2000 U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links. Three years later, she became the championship's youngest winner at 13. She lost in the championship match a year later to Yani Tseng. In the 2003 Kraft Nabisco Championship (now ANA Inspiration), she became the youngest to make a cut, shooting a 66 in Round 3, which placed her in the final group on Sunday. In 2006, Wie advanced to Final qualifying for the U.S. Open and just narrowly missed becoming the first female to play in the championship. A year earlier, she advanced to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur Public Links. She represented the USA in the 2004 Curtis Cup before turning pro in the fall of 2005. Her first LPGA Tour win came four years later in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Mexico. Her last victory remains the 2018 HSBC Women's World Championship. Wie West married Jonnie West, the son of NBA Hall of Famer Jerry West, in 2019, and the couple welcomed their first child (Makenna) in June of 2020. Wie West returned to competition at the Kia Classic in late March. This will be her 16th U.S. Women's Open start, with a tie for third in 2006 at Newport (R.I.) Country Club being her best finish.

U.S. Women's Open Playing Record