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The newly announced Mizuho Americas Open will make its debut May 29-June 4, 2023, at a high-profile venue — Liberty National Golf Club, in Jersey City, N.J. — and with a high-profile host: recently retired LPGA star and Mizuho brand ambassador Michelle Wie West.

But wait, there’s more!

The event will also feature a format that is unique in the world of professional golf. In a collaboration between the LPGA and the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA), two parallel tournaments will be contested concurrently over four days. The 120 pros will compete for the Mizuho Americas Open trophy and a $2.75 million purse, while the AJGA will field the 24 best junior girl players — selected via the Rolex AJGA Rankings — in an AJGA Invitational. For the first two days, the juniors will play in their own respective groups while the pros play together in separate groupings.

On the weekend, the real fun begins. The LPGA cut will be a smaller-than-normal 50 players. Those players will be split into twosomes and each group will be joined by one of the junior players. These threesomes will play together through the remainder of the weekend.

When Wie West stepped away from competitive golf, she said one of her goals would be to continue efforts to grow women’s golf from the ground up, and this tournament and its unique format, she said, are the perfect vehicle to do that.

“When I made the transition away from playing fulltime, these were the type of things I really wanted to do,” Wie West said at a Friday press conference at Liberty National. “Growing women’s golf, growing access to the game, growing diversity into the game. I’m extremely honored that I get the opportunity to do all the things I want to do really all in one tournament.”

LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan, who also was in attendance at Liberty National, noted the star power Wie West brings to the new endeavor.

“To have one of the most amazing women that I’ve met and one of the most iconic female golfers [as our host], who really has turned her attention to growing the LPGA and helping us advance our mission, I don’t think we could ask for anything better,” Marcoux Samaan said. “This is kind of a homerun times 10.”

Part of the mission of the event is to give the juniors an invaluable opportunity to experience the atmosphere, competitiveness and pressure that comes with playing in professional tournaments. They also will be treated just as the pros are throughout the week, including press conferences, sponsor dinners, practice rounds and everything else that goes into being a player at the highest level.

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Jason Etzen, chief business officer at the AJGA, said this partnership with the LPGA is a huge opportunity for junior golf.

“Kevin Hopkins [VP of Excel Sports Management] came to me and started to explain the idea and the people and organizations that were going to be involved, and I think I said yes before he finished talking,” Etzen said. “It was a very quick yes on our part knowing what this is going to do to help develop the lucky young 24 girls.”

Mizuho is a multi-national financial services corporation, and the Americas Open is its first investment in the U.S. sporting landscape. Jerry Rizzieri, Mizuho Americas president and CEO, said the company’s decision to get involved in the tournament was an easy choice.

“We wanted to do something that not only was good for our business, but we also wanted to do something that showcases our values,” Rizzieri said. “We wanted to make a difference. Women athletes I think are very much underappreciated. We thought it was a great message for us to showcase the talent of these women at an unbelievable location right around New York City.”

For two dozen talented girls — and for junior golf as a whole — it will be a week they won’t soon forget.

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Now 32 years old and a mother to Makenna, her two-year-old daughter, Wie West announced in June that she’ll be stepping away from the LPGA Tour.

Luckily for fans of the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open champion, Wie West is staying active in the golf space through her involvement as an investor in companies like LA Golf, Sportsbox AI and Tonal.

In recent years, Wie West has also become a vocal advocate for the importance of mental health, especially in women’s athletics.

On this week’s episode of Nike’s No Off-Season podcast, Wie West told the host, Dr. Shairi Turner, about the struggles she faced during her competitive days.

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“I felt like when I started, mental health wasn’t really talked about,” Wie West said. “What was talked about was having a champion mindset, being strong, being a warrior. That included never breaking. That included never resting. That included laser-focus. So in my mind, seeing that, I felt like to be a champion golfer, I had to have that mindset. I had to have that mindset that never broke, never complained.”

That mentality was especially apparent when Wie West was forced to confront injuries. She said that she believed that acknowledging the pain and difficulty would mean she wasn’t a champion golfer anymore.

“I remember not telling the media really honest answers about my injuries, kind of hiding it, just because I didn’t want to feel weak,” she said. “And later on in my career, when I was going through more injuries, just being honest about it. You know, being like, this hurts. I don’t know how much longer I’m going to play. It was kind of freeing because I felt like I didn’t have to put up a front during my hardest times.”

Wie West said she appreciates the greater transparency athletes can enjoy now when it comes to their mental health.

“I’m really glad that athletes now are really stepping out and showing that you can be a champion but also admit that you’re fragile and you’re not perfect,” Wie West said.

For more from Wie West, including the tools she utilizes to minimize her anxiety, check out the full podcast episode below.

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She arrived at Pinehurst No. 2’s iconic 18th green with a two-shot lead and one hand on the U.S. Women’s Open trophy. When her final putt dropped, she raised her hands in the air with tears welling in her eyes.

At long last, she was a major champion.

“It’s a dream come true,” Wie West said. “I just couldn’t ask for more.”

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On Friday, she once again walked along the baked-out fairways in the Carolina Sandhills. The venue was different this time — Pine Needles Resort is just five miles down Highway 2 from the better-known Pinehurst Resort — but the walk was equally emotional.

Tears welled in her eyes once again, and the galleries showered her with praise. They love their own around here, and ever since her 2014 victory, she’s been an adopted daughter.

But this will be the last time they see Wie West compete in the most iconic region in American golf.

The 32-year-old, still with just one major championship to her name, announced last week her intentions to step away from professional golf. She still plans on playing the U.S. Women’s Open next year at Pebble Beach — the final year of her 10-year exemption into the championship — but her focus will shift away from pro golf.

Wie West will always live on in the lore of the area, but she will not add to her story on the golf course.

“It was bittersweet to announce that,” Wie West said. “[But] it’s been an amazing journey, and I’m very excited for what happens next.”

While the U.S. Women’s Open trophy is slated to be awarded Sunday evening, Wie West’s week ended on Friday afternoon. With a two-round total of 147, she will miss the cut. Friday was her final walk around Pine Needles storied grounds.

“Missing the cut sucks, but overall, I had a very positive experience,” she said. “[I] had a lot of fun.”

The day started off on a high note for Wie West. She woke for her early-morning tee time and, as is her routine, played the popular game Wordle on her phone. She got the answer correctly with just two guesses.

The fortuitous beginning would not be a sign of things to come.

Although Wie West birdied her opening hole — the gettable dogleg right par 5 — she bogeyed three of her next four holes.

“Just was above the hole one too many times,” she said. “I just got off to the wrong start with my reads and just didn’t trust my eyes.”

Putting woes were a theme throughout her round. She hit 13 of 14 fairways, and 13 of 18 greens, but never quite got comfortable on the grainy Bermuda putting surfaces. She finished her round with 32 putts.

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Still, when she walked to the 18th tee, there was an outside shot Wie West could make the cut. She’d need a birdie — and a little bit of help from others in the field — but the opportunity was there.

She teed her ball low on the 18th tee and pulled fairway wood from her bag. A few deep breathes later, and her ball was safely in the fairway. She retreated to the back and refilled her water bottle as fans whispered pleasantries.

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When all tee balls were away, she started her final stroll down the baked-out fairway.

Her approach came up well short of the back-left hole location and trickled off the false front guarding the green. Her hopes of making the cut rested on the single club that had betrayed her all day — the putter.

As she walked those final hundred yards to the green, those in the grandstands showered her with applause. Familiar faces dotted the crowd — these were the same fans that had been just down the road eight years before as Wie West became a Sandhills legend.

“I definitely teared up a little bit knowing that it would be one of my last times doing that,” Wie West said. “It was really cool. Definitely had flashbacks of Pinehurst.”

Alas, the storybook ending was not to be. Wie West’s birdie try raced past the hole, and her seven-foot par effort missed on the way back. She tapped in for her bogey, and walked off the green one final time.

“I gave it my all today,” Wie West said. “[I] gave [it] a good run.”

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Wie West will lead a new women’s initiative with equipment manufacturer LA Golf in which the company will provide its LPGA players with full healthcare, including mental health days and paid maternity leave, performance-based bonuses, along with other benefits. The goal of the program, the company said in a statement, is to “treat female golfers the way they should have been treated all along.”

LA Golf said it will announce its 2023 staff of LPGA players later this year.

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The launch of the initiative comes one week after Wie West announced she would step away from the LPGA to focus on other ventures.

As Wie West prepares to compete in this week’s U.S. Women’s Open, GOLF.com caught up with her to learn more about her new venture, her LPGA legacy and more.

(Ed. note: This Q and A has been lightly edited for clarity and brevity.)

Zephyr Melton: Which part of the LA Golf program are you most excited about?

Michelle Wie West: I’m just excited to create a dialogue in the corporate landscape for female golfers. The LPGA Tour is doing such an amazing job with supporting our players with daycare, increasing purses, and stuff like that. But we also need corporate buy-ins. We need companies to prioritize female golfers. We at LA Golf felt the need to show that we are doing that. We want to create a dialogue within the space and provide full health benefits for our players — paid maternity leave, paid mental health days. So all of that is very exciting.

ZM: I understand there are also travel perks within this program. Could you explain a little how that will work?

MWW: We are providing a travel concierge service to allow for seamless travel for our players that will hopefully elongate their careers. One of the hidden burdens of being a female athlete is the travel. We’re not like an NBA team or even like the PGA Tour. We have to lug our bags on and off the carousel — risking bags getting lost every week, risking injury pulling a 70-pound bag off the carousel. We’re just trying to make things easier for our players.

ZM: Why now? Why is this the time to step away and focus your energy on this venture?

MWW: These are projects that I’ve always wanted to be a part of. But being a competitive golfer, you have to give it 110 percent, and I just couldn’t give anything else to any projects, so I needed to step away to do this. Just being on the board of the LPGA has been really helpful and it’s been great to be part of that process. And now to be on the corporate side and being a part of companies that are as excited to help women golfers is just a dream come true. I just want to do more of things like this.

ZM: Did you always envision yourself blazing trails in the business world?

MWW: It’s something that I always hoped to do. I’m still a rookie on the business side, but luckily I have a lot of mentors in that landscape. I’m still learning, but I want to make a meaningful impact.

ZM: How much has being a mother to your daughter inspired you to make things better for the next generation of players?

MWW: It’s had a huge impact. There is nothing I want more than my daughter to be in a better position than I ever was. If she chooses to be a female athlete, I want her to get everything that she deserves. I want her to be able to be respected for the amazing athlete that she is. Hopefully we will get there, and this is just the beginning.

ZM: What’s your hope for your own game this week at Pine Needles?

MWW: The competitive side of me wants to win, but I’m definitely managing expectations. My practice schedule hasn’t been what it usually is heading to a tournament, but still I just want to soak every moment in. It has been amazing to see the fans out there and the players. I’m definitely excited to play this week, and I can’t wait to get out there.

ZM: You won the U.S. Women’s Open just down the road at Pinehurst eight years ago. Eight years from now, where do you hope to be?

MWW: Hopefully doing more projects like this. I want to keep advocating for female golfers and female athletes in general. And then just having fun in life — hopefully the most fun watching my daughter grow. We hope to expand our family one day, and then get more dogs, too.

ZM: How do you want to be remembered on this tour?

MWW: I want to be remembered for making this tour, and the landscape for female athletes, better than how I found it. It’s something I’ve always strived for since I got on tour, living up to the 13 founders and honoring them and everything they did this tour for us. Hopefully I can do the same for the future generations.

ZM: I know the fans are bummed they won’t be seeing you out here much anymore, but it sounds like you might be leaving the door cracked slightly open for some sort of return?

MWW: I’m not shutting the door completely. I have made some drastic changes in my decisions before. So the door is definitely open.

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1. As it turns out, Scottie Scheffler’s “slump” lasted all of nine holes. One week after missing the cut at the PGA Championship, where he shot a back-nine 40 during his second round, Scheffler nearly won his fifth event of the season on Sunday, losing to Sam Burns in a playoff at the Charles Schwab Challenge. What is it about Scheffler’s game, or headspace, that has made him such a consistent/reliable performer, and on such a variety of courses?

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Josh Sens, senior writer (@joshsens): He’s got all the shots, obviously. But he’s also got golf in perspective. At this point, at least, for all the expectations around him, he’s not putting excess pressure on himself. He’s got enough killer instinct to dominate without being the kind of guy who defines himself by golf. That’s how it comes across anyway. His third round at Colonial was, dare I say, Woodsian. He was all over the place and still didn’t make a bogey until the 17th. 

Alan Bastable, executive editor (@alan_bastable): As you’d expect, there are no real weaknesses in Scheffler’s game, statistically speaking, anyway. But one of the big keys to his success is that he rarely misses greens, hitting about 72 percent of them in regulation, which is third best on Tour. That takes a lot of pressure off his short game and instead lets him focus on jarring birdie putts. I also think the importance of Ted Scott’s role can’t be overstated. Scheffler and Scott share much in common: hard workers, family men, devout Christians, and each has a ton of respect for the other. The relationship just works, and I think it’s no coincidence that Scheffler’s run started soon after Scott took his bag.

Nick Piastowski, senior editor (@nickpia): He’s an easy-going, aw-shucks’er who hates — hates — to lose. So ice and fire. That’s tough to beat. 

2. Colonial Country Club, the storied Schwab venue and a mighty mite at “only” 7,200 yards from the tips, held its own once again this week, with just zero players finishing the tournament double digits under par. Does the PGA Tour need more courses like Colonial — where accuracy trumps brawn — on the schedule, or would the players not have it?

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Sens: The Tour could use more great designs as part of its regular rota. Great designs make for more interesting golf. If a few players gripe, so be it. It is, to use the parlance of the corporations that rule all professional sports, a better product. 

Bastable: The lack of diversity in Tour setups is stunning. You would think the world’s best players would demand more interesting slate of tests, but sadly they seem content with bomb-and-gouging. Rory McIlroy summed up that sentiment last year when he said: “A lot of the golf courses we play are uniform and you get the same conditions each and every week, and players like that. I like that. I like that you don’t have to come and spend three or four days at a golf course learning it every week, and if you’re playing week to week, to have setups like this is a good thing.” Colonial, like Harbour Town, is such a breath of fresh air on the calendar, mostly because players can’t smash it into submission. So … yeah, I’d love to see more courses of its ilk in the mix.

Piastowski: More please! If you believe the players, most of them like the tracks that test the entire game, too. Though I can’t imagine after next week the mental shape of those who go Southern Hills-Colonial-Muirfield Village. 

3. The U.S. Women’s Open tees off this week at Pine Needles in North Carolina. Among the storylines to watch are the return of Nelly Korda and the defense of Yuka Saso. (We’ll tackle Michelle Wie West separately below.) What are you most looking forward to seeing play out?

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Sens: Lydia Ko. Always Lydia Ko. The coolest professional golfer in the world.

Bastable: I’m excited to see Pine Needles in action. The Donald Ross gem has long taken a backseat to its storied Sandhills neighbor, Pinehurst, so it will be fun to see it in the spotlight. Pine Needles devotees will tell you it’s every bit as fun as any of Pinehurst’s offerings, No. 2 included.

Piastowski: Nelly. Let’s hope she’s good to go. She’s a star, the budding rivalry with Jin Young Ko is fantastic, and she’s must-watch golf. It’s great she’s back. 

4. On to Wie West. This week, she told Golfweek’s Beth Ann Nichols that she plans to play the U.S. Women’s Open, then step away from the LPGA Tour. How would you sum up Wie West’s legacy?

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Sens: I don’t have anything to say that hasn’t been said a million times before. There’s of course a woulda, coulda, shoulda element to her story. And yet, in the ways that matter most, she did. 

Bastable: It’s easy to get fixated on the fact that she didn’t live up to the immense expectations that were placed on her, but what should never be forgotten is how much attention and excitement she brought to the game when she was literally just a kid. At 10, she played in the U.S. Women’s Am Public Links; at 12, she played in an LPGA event; at 14, she came a stroke shy of making the cut at a PGA Tour event, thanks to a second-round 68 (yes, at 14!!) That week sticks with me. It was truly captivating; I vividly remember being glued to the telecast not wanting to miss a single shot of hers. What a talent.    

Piastowski: She’s a star. And will continue to be; according to our story this week, she’s not leaving the game; she’s just not playing it. That tells me something. She’s making an impact on the game. Not many can say that. 

5. A high school tournament in Iowa drew headlines last week for a diabolical pin position on the 18th green that had players putting their golf balls past the hole and off the green. What’s the wickedest pin, green or hole setup you’ve come across?

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Sens: All four of the par-3s at Whistling Straits have some intimidating pins. The back right location on the 7th, out by the bluffs, still gives me cold sweats.

Bastable: There’s a nine-hole muni par-3 course near my New Jersey home. The 7th hole plays all of about 90 yards, but it’s an uphill shot to a tiny blind green that pitches hard from left to right. Play it mid-summer when the green is crusty and it’s virtually impossible to hold. Pars feels like eagles.   

Piastowski: Stone Meadows Golf Club in the Poconos, which I wrote about last fall. Every green was a postage stamp! 

6. Film critic Mark Ellis shared with our Josh Sens a ranking of the six best golf movies of all time. Help us out with another ranking: What, in your mind, is the best golf scene in a non-golf film?

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Sens: The airhorn scene in Jackass, and it’s not even close.

Bastable: C’mon now, nothing tops Goldfinger (with Oddjob on the bag!) trying to cheat his way to victory against 007.

Piastowski: NERD ALERT! But the best golf scene in a non-golf movie HAS to be when, in the first Hobbit movie, Gandalf explains how golf was invented. You can watch it here! 

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In 2003, at the age of 13, Wie West became the youngest winner of an adult USGA-sanctioned tournament when she took the title at the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links. That same year, she became the youngest player to make the cut in an LPGA tournament and major, surviving the cut line in Palm Springs.

Her notoriety only grew from there, and soon she began setting her sights higher. Specifically, competing amongst the men on the PGA Tour. In 2004, she got that chance at the Sony Open.

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Wie West received a sponsor exemption to play in the early season event in Hawaii. And although she was confident in her abilities, the nerves set in when she arrived early in the week.

“I was so nervous on the range,” Wie West said on this week’s episode of GOLF’s Subpar.

Wie West remembers there being plenty of naysayers in her pursuit. But she kept a positive outlook despite it.

“I was like, ‘Wait, you can’t tell me I can’t do this just because I’m a girl,'” Wie West said. “I remember getting to the range and Ernie Els is hitting, and Vijay Singh is there. And I’m just like, ‘Oh my gosh.’ I was super cocky back in the day, but then I’m watching these guys hit the ball and I’m like, Wow!”

Despite the star-struck beginning to the week, Wie West made a little more history in her first start alongside the men. Her second-round 68 remains the lowest round by a woman in a PGA Tour event.

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Such was the case for Michelle Wie West, whose ascension into the ranks of global golf fame came at the tender age of 10 years old. Wie West was a toddler when she first earned notoriety for her golf game — a Pre-K student with a sweet swing.

Soon, she was traveling the world to compete in golf tournaments, becoming the youngest player ever to make the cut at the U.S. Women’s Open at age 13, and turning professional at the age of 16.

But when did Wie West know she was destined for stardom? On this week’s episode of GOLF’s Subpar, she offered a stunning answer.

“It was pretty fast to be honest,” Wie West told hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz. “You know from when I was 4 I really could get the ball airborne. But as you know, I got really big, really fast. So at age 10 I was 5’7 and weighed a whopping 175 pounds. I hit the ball 250, 275 and quickly realized that other 10-year-old girls weren’t doing that.”

That’s right. By the time she was a preteen, Wie West knew that golf was going to play a major factor in her life.

“Yeah, it just happened really fast,” she said. “It was something I just always knew that I was good at. I beat my dad when I was 7. I qualified for my first national event when I was 10.”

But perhaps the strangest part of it all, Wie West admits, is that it wasn’t strange. Her earth-shattering abilities from a young age were shocking to those around her, but she’d never known any other reality.

“That to me just felt normal,” she said. “I know people always said, ‘That’s not normal, that’s not normal.’ But it was like, my life I was seeing me hit the ball that far every day. To me, I was like, ‘Okay, this is what I’m good at.'”

To hear the rest of Wie West’s Subpar interview, including her thoughts on how to grow women’s golf, check out the video below.

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