Michelle Wie and Greg Norman |
According to a news, Korean-American golfer Michelle Wie has relinquished her Korean citizenship.
According to the Ministry of Public Administration and Security on Tuesday, the former prodigy gave up her Korean passport last Thursday and opted for U.S. citizenship.
Wie, who was born in Hawaii in 1989, had held dual citizenship and listed as her hometown Jangheung, South Jeolla Province, the birthplace of her grandfather, a former professor of aerospace engineering at Seoul National University.
At present, Wie is studying at Stanford.
One of the unique features of Michelle Wie is her height which is 6 feet and 1 inch. (6.1 feet or 185cm).