Wie woes lessen

After a year of almost undiluted misery on the course – all under the public gaze – Michelle Wie shared the early lead in the Ricoh Women’s British Open at St Andrews today.

Inspired perhaps by the first staging of a women’s professional event at the Home of Golf, the 17-year-old Hawaiian birdied the fourth and fifth holes to set the pace with Mexico’s world number one Lorena Ochoa and Italian Tullia Calzavara.