For some golfers, drama just accompanies them like another club in the bag. Leading that list on the women's side is Michelle Wie, who's got herself another couple of moments to add to the ol' scrapbook.

First off, if you'll remember, a couple weeks back Wie's camp trumpeted the news that she'd signed with IMG, the management agency that represents golf's titans, like Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Annika Sorenstam and so many more. Well, apparently this wasn't a case of Wie deciding to separate from former agency William Morris; no, according to Steve Elling at CBS Sportsline, she was booted.

This is absurdly dull business stuff, but as Elling notes, the basic details are this--WMA, like most agencies, signs its clients to successive one-year deals because the likelihood is so high that the public will fall out of love with its celebrities. When Wie's contract with WMA came up for review last year, the agency didn't re-sign wie, but her existing agent worked with the Wie family -- until it was discovered that the Wies were trying to work a side deal with a sports-drink company without WMA's knowledge or input. (How exactly did they think that wouldn't get discovered?) At that point, it was seeya, Michelle, and IMG became the only option. The point of this? The Wie family yet again put Michelle in another awkward position, another hole.

And although it wasn't her fault, Ron Sirak at Golf Digest's Local Knowledge blog points out that she almost caused another controversy at this week's J Golf LPGA International. Asked her impressions of the Papago Golf Course, she mentioned that she played nine holes on Saturday. Problem is, there has been a rule in place that golfers at an LPGA event can't play the tournament course until after 5 p.m. on the Sunday before the tournament.

Fortunately for -- and also because of -- Wie, the rule has been changed to Friday before the tournament, meaning Wie didn't break the rules. That rule was, ironically enough, changed because Wie had a habit of showing up and playing courses ahead of time, but she wasn't violating rules because she wasn't an LPGA member at the time.

Wie has had all kinds of problems with rules, but this one doesn't appear to be her fault. Still, the last thing she needs these days is even a whiff of controversy ... even though it still follows her like cheap perfume.

[Note: Apparently some readers missed the link to Elling's article above referencing the firing. I've added a reference to Elling as the writer of the original piece. Full credit for uncovering that story goes to him, of course.]