Michelle Wie hasn’t had what we could describe as an auspicious start to her season. Despite my expectations and predictions that she’d make a hot start, the 6th ranked Wie hasn’t kicked into gear, yet. To the contrary, I watched her laugh it off again and again as her putts rolled past the cup, just to the left, barely off the edge to the right, first at the Coates Golf Championship and then again at the Pure Silk-Bahamas. She barely made enough money in Thailand to pay her expenses, then collected double bogeys in Singapore and just shrugged them off.

It wasn’t that she wasn’t trying, and it wasn’t that she didn’t care. I think Michelle Wie learned a valuable life lesson while she was out of competition and working on healing from a hand injury last fall. I think she learned how to relax and enjoy life.

If the intriguing paintings she produced during that period weren’t evidence enough, here’s a bit more proof. While the Tour takes a break between Singapore and Phoenix, Wie’s hanging out at home in Jupiter at The Bear’s Club where she aced the 11th hole with her 6-iron and then gleefully tweeted the shot!