The “gauntlet of golf,” as Max Homa calls it, or Q-School, as everyone else calls it, is golf’s ultimate pressure test. Imagine a tough multi-stage event where players fight for their Tour cards. To say the least, your career depends on it. You’d think that pros who have made it to the big league now didn’t have a hard time there back in the day, but that isn’t the case. Mel Reid and Michelle Wie West’s recent words are proof.

Reid recently shared her Q-School memories on the Quiet Please with Mel and Kira podcast. She remembered encountering Michelle Wie in 2007, who was already making waves in the golf world. West was just 12 years old and driving the ball 320 yards. Reid jokingly claimed that West “destroyed” her and “smashed Q-school so bad. She just killed it. Just smacked everybod

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