Michelle Wie plays good golf as a teenager

``One time, me and a number of guys played campus golf,'' said Wie, being placed in a coffee house on campus after her longest day of classes. ``You hit balls using a driver. You commence in the frats and end with the fountain, so that's like one hole. We hit cars, we hit some bikers. Just goofy things that that you do not usually do.''

Moments like tailgating with the Fiesta Bowl before Stanford played Oklahoma State. Sitting - mostly standing, actually - inside the student section behind the discount golf clubs bench at Cardinal basketball games. Spending for hours on end roasting a pig before a secret Bowl party. Catching up with friends in the Coho Cafe, where cartoon figures of famous alumni are painted about the walls.

There's a caricature of Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, and in many cases among Ernie els, who won an NCAA title at Stanford. Wie's face is not included in this. She's each student, exactly like everyone else.

``My life has progressed in a variety of ping g15 irons ways than I thought it was gonna,'' said Wie, who laughs easily currently. ``I'm more rooted of what I'm doing. I suppose that's called maturing.''

For much of her age of puberty, all Wie heard was she was going about life the wrong manner. She was playing an excessive amount of golf, far too early. She was playing contrary to the men. She turned pro as a junior in secondary school.

In a era where young players don't help it become all through college, should they even visit college, Wie has had the best of both worlds. She's an LPGA Tour player taylormade burner superfast 2.0 driver who has two career wins and finished 18th about the money list last year. And she's a senior at Stanford, likely to finish next week and proceed through graduation in June having a degree in communications.