Stephanie Wei is a golfer, blogger and writer. She is the proprietor and editor of Wei Under Par — “Sometimes News, Sometimes Rumors, Always Golf” — a blog covering the professional, amateur and collegiate ranks, and topics related to the sport and industry. Only formed in March 2009, Wei Under Par has quickly become one of the most popular golf blogs and has been mentioned on SI.com’s Truth & Rumors, Golf.com, Yahoo’s Devil Ball Golf, AOL FanHouse, The Guardian, Geoff Shackelford, Golf Observer, ESPN’s Page 2, Deadspin and Romenesko.
Prominent UK website Golf365.com deems her “at the head of a movement that is changing the face of the golfing media.”
Her work has also appeared at Huffington Post, Mediaite and Guestofaguest.com. She has appeared on many radio spots for ESPN Radio, WFAN, Sporting News Radio, Fox Sports Radio, AOL’s FanHouse HausCast, the 19th Hole Golf Show and World Golf.
She is the content producer for the social media outlets of a major sportswear company’s golf division and a columnist for Avid Golfer magazine. She has conducted interviews with PGA Tour players Ryan Moore, Rickie Fowler and Alex Prugh, LPGA Tour players Cristie Kerr, Christina Kim, Paige Mackenzie, Anna Grzebien, Natalie Gulbis, Karen Stupples and Brittany Lincicome, and LPGA Commissioner Michael Whan.
Stephanie was a competitive golfer for ten years and remains an avid golfer. As a junior golfer, she was nationally ranked in the top 100. She was a three-time Washington State Class A High School Girls’ Champion. In college she was a member of the Yale Women’s Golf Team, where she was captain her junior year. She was named to the Academic All-Ivy Team in 2003 and 2004, and a National Academic All-American in 2003. For her stellar play, she received All-Ivy League honors in 2002, 2003 and 2004. She was also selected by the NCAA to represent Yale at the 2003 NCAA National Leadership Conference.
After graduating from Yale in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in History, she moved to New York City, where she still currently resides. She’s worked as a paralegal at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, investor relations analyst at Credit Suisse, director of business development at a start-up fashion company and public relations associate at FORM. Now she’s a freelance golf blogger and writer.
