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Unit2 Not Your Average Teen
Lots of teenage girls dream of becoming rich and famous. But it's not a fantasy幻想 白日梦 for Michelle Wie. Just before her 16th birthday last fall, she became the highest-paid woman golfer in history simply by turning professional and lending her name to commercial
endorsements代言产品 that will pay her between $10 million and $12 million a year, most of which will go into a trust fund 信托基金until she becomes an adult.
Wie has been a celebrity[si'lebr?ti] 名人 since she was 13, when people began predicting she would become the Tiger Woods of women's golf. But, as correspondent Steve Kroft reports, that has never been enough for Wie. She wants to become the first woman ever to successfully compete with men in a professional sport. She has tried a couple of times on the PGA Tour美国职业高尔夫协会巡回赛 without embarrassing herself.
As you will see, she has changed a lot since we first talked to her way back in 2004, when she was 14.
At the time, Wie told Kroft her ultimate goal was to play in the Masters. \
It was a neat dream for a 14-year-old kid. Nothing has happened in the last two years to change Wie's mind or shake her confidence.
She is stronger now, more mature and glamorous ['ɡl?m?r?s]迷人的，富有魅力的. She has already demonstrated that she can play herself into the middle of the pack against the best men on the PGA Tour and has come within a shot of winning her first two starts on the LPGA Tour this year as a part-time professional.
The day before 60 Minutes interviewed her at the Fields Open 夏威夷公开赛in Honolulu, she shot a final round of 66, coming from six strokes off the lead to just miss a playoff. \
\I was like 'Oh my God.' \
Wie says she won around $72,000.
Asked whether she gets to keep that money, Wie said she didn't know.
\等等 like that. We're still working it out. But, you know, I'm definitely gonna go shopping today,\laughing.
Half of her life is spent in the adult world, competing with men and women twice her age for paychecks they may need to make expenses and dealing with the media, sponsors and marketing executives. The rest of the time she is a junior at Punahou High School in Honolulu, where she is an A student优等生 and claims to lead the life of a typical 16-year-old.
\有点儿worried for,\
What about boys? \
\ [in'timideitid] 害怕的；受到恐吓的,\
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don't really care. I'm way too busy as it is.\
She has already been on the David Letterman Show, graced countless magazines and
played golf with former President Clinton, who, she claims, can be rather vague模糊的 when recording his score.
To help manage all of this, her parents have surrounded her with the best people all that money can buy. Besides her caddy, Greg Johnston, and renowned [ri'naund]著名的，有威望的 golf coach David Leadbetter, her retinue['retinju] 随行人员includes agents, a sports psychologist, physical trainer and image consultant.
Two years ago, it was just Wie and her parents. Now she has an entourage [,?ntu'rɑ:?] 随从.
\of the team. It feels nice to have, you know, people that you can trust around you.\\
\['?:s?m]可怕的,\
Most of the shots are still being called by her parents, B.J. and Bo, with recommendations from the William Morris Agency, which was hired by the Wie family to manage the business aspects of her career and line up endorsements from sponsors who were already standing in line.
They include a ubiquitous sporting goods and apparel company, a Japanese electronics giant and a Swiss watch manufacturer — who collectively contribute an eight-figure sum to the Michelle Wie trust fund.
William Morris president David Wirtschafter says Michelle is, and will remain, their only golf client in a talent stable mostly filled with Hollywood actors, directors and writers. He sees her as someone who can easily make the jump from sports to entertainment.
Asked if he thinks there is a difference anymore between sports and entertainment, Wirtschafter says: \we feel that so many people are interested in her because almost every demographic is anxious to watch her play and anxious to see what she does next, that she will be one of the few athletes who essentially transcends sports and becomes somebody that people pay attention to in popular culture.\
Why are so many people interested in her?
\. \plays golf in a style that is much more like men. It's a power golf style. She hits the ball a long, long way. I think women find her attractive, particularly young women, because she, again, is playing against boys. And, yet, when she's off the course, she's very much like them.\
Wirtschafter acknowledges that Wie has also become very attractive and that it makes a huge difference. \just has a skill level that's off the charts. And I think that's a very, very rare combination.\\ \and could play golf as she plays golf, she'd still be a great golfer,\.
Much of the interest in Michelle is in Asia. She is of Korean descent, already speaks Japanese and is now taking a stab at Mandarin. When she arrived at an airport in Japan last year
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before playing in a tournament there, she was styled and greeted like a major movie star, although she tries to pretend otherwise.
Wie says she doesn't feel the level of celebrity she has already achieved. Referring to her movie star-like reception in Japan, Wie says, \airport because they had a plane to catch.\
Wie admits juggling high school life while playing on the LPGA Tour is hectic but says that's the way she likes it.
\do.' I'm just, like, walking around my house trying to find something, actually cleaning up my room,\
Asked if her parents still rule her life, Wie says: \they're the head of the household. So I guess I have to listen. But I'm still stubborn. I won't give in easily, that's the thing.\
That stubbornness has helped propel her to stardom. She passed up junior events and amateur tournaments that she could win for the chance to lose and learn from the best professionals. She also ignored people like John Hawkins, a senior writer at \\\peers,\
Hawkins says it's a huge part of Wie's appeal.
\— can't refer to any other part of the anatomy here — who has the guts to play against men when they're 16? I have a tremendous amount of respect for the satchel it takes to go out there and tee it up with the big boys. You gotta turn your TV on and watch that, don't you? I mean, you got to.\
And people watched. \news. It's news when she tries,\
No one is happier with the prospect than the TV networks and tournament sponsors. When Michelle plays against men or women, television ratings and ticket sales go up an average of 50 percent. But Hawkins points out that Michelle hasn't won anything since she was 13, and if she is going to justify her eight-figure endorsement deals over any length of time, she needs to win some tournaments.
\beating the women. She is a special talent. She is a transcendent figure,\\Does Michelle feel the pressure to start winning tournaments?
\will recognize that I'm still a full-time student,\that I have to do. And, hopefully, they'll be patient with me because I believe that I can do it.\
Last weekend at the Kraft Nabisco Tournament, she just missed another opportunity to win a major championship on the women's tour. After making a birdie on the 16th hole, all she had to do to make the playoff was get it down in two from the edge of the 18th green. But her chip shot went 10 feet past the hole and she just missed the putt coming back.
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before,\little harder. You're not used to feeling the crunch of pressure. I think she's still learning.\But if you ask Michelle what has been her most stressful experience this year, she'll likely give you the 16-year-old answer — which was taking and barely passing her driver's test. \
While she just made the cut, she says she was really nervous and didn't know what to expect.
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Michelle says she would rate her driving skills as OK. \very good. I have to get better on that.\
When her parents finally allow her to have her own car, she'll not only get exactly what she wants, some company will gladly pay her to drive it. But to her friends at Punahou High, she is just another junior.
\friend Raquel.
And Meghan, another friend, says even when Michelle is halfway around the world, they text message each other a lot. \
Wie is not one of those prodigies who has been robbed of her childhood; in some ways she is still holding on to it — the final stages, anyway, and enjoying every minute of it. At 16, the days and weeks still last a long time for her. An endless summer competing against some of the best golfers in the world still feels a long way off. Anything beyond that is hard for her to grasp.
\always fantasize with me being on my own, traveling by myself, you know, being independent,\myself. I've never bought a plane ticket. I barely know how to do laundry. I can't cook. I can't even, I almost cannot microwave stuff. I mean it's pathetic. So basically the reality sets in and I can't do that.\
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\mean, I guess I just have to learn how to do laundry,\
Asked whether she wants to get married and have kids, Michelle Wie said, laughing: \most definitely. That's way down the road. I mean, I'm 16 right now. Might be illegal right now.\
Produced By Kay Lim .
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