You can't make this Michelle Wie stuff up. Seriously, you can't. I tried. I made up this story about how she broke down crying on the tenth green of the State Farm Classic last weekend, then decided to give up golf once and for all. My editor said, "Nice try, champ, but Wie got herself kicked out of the tournament for failing to sign the score card, and now she's taking another run at a PGA tournament."

Wow. Well played, Ms. Wie. Well played.

The scorecard thing was inexcusable from every angle. Golf is a game whose margins are dotted with land-mines of dorky rules, and the scorecard-signing rule is a prime example. What's the fear, that she's going to lop off a stroke or two while nobody's looking? She's Michelle freakin' Wie, for heaven's sake. On the flip side, though, rules are rules, and how hard is it to forget to sign your scorecard when you've been doing it for tournaments? As the Florida Sun-Sentinel notes, golf is all about precision, and it doesn't stop when you hole out on 18.

But Michelle wasn't done. With the holy-crap-she-got-kicked-out-for-THAT? news still circulating, she announced that it was time to match up with the boys once again. She'll tee off against the men in next week's Legends Reno-Tahoe Open, and it's a move that has been met with, shall we say, a less-than-welcoming response. Sports Frappe leads with the headline "Michelle Wie still can't cut it," and it goes downhill from there. As Deadspin puts it, "Somebody sit this girl down and tell her she's just not good enough." The Philly Inquirer's Joe Logan gets even more succinct: "Dumb. Dumb. Dumb."

Wie's got the kind of career arc that makes people want to bang their heads into walls in frustration. She was one stroke off the lead last weekend when she had the scorecard debacle. And right on the heels of that embarrassment, she's going to play in a men's tournament where there's almost certainly more frustration and embarrassment ahead? Wie was coming along so well in her "career rehab" move, but she's like a poker player who keeps going all-in before the second card is dealt. The more Wie focuses on playing her game well, the less everyone outside the ropes will focus on why she's not.