It’s been about five years since Michelle Wie was introduced as The Next Big Thing in women’s golf.

The big thing: a prodigious swing which could propel the ball nearly 300 yards.

But since winning the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links championship in 2003, she has not won a tournament since. Too, she needs a good finish in her last LPGA event this year to avoid being sent to Qualifying School next year to earn her LPGA Tour card.

This weekend, she’s in Nevada playing in a PGA tournament thinned by a World Golf Championship event, while most of her LPGA compatriots are in England for the Women’s British Open.

She’s around the cut line after today’s score of one over par, but there are two notables. One, she is five strokes ahead of David Duval, who is one of only a handful of golfers ever to shoot under 60 strokes in a provessional tournament.

Two, she still draws people: her gallery today was the biggest on the golf course. I just hope they don’t see a car wreck tomorrow.