Injured Wie cuts short LPGA return

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MOUNT PLEASANT, South Carolina (AP) -- Michelle Wie made a sorry return to the LPGA tour as she was forced to pull out of the Ginn Tribute tournament after shooting 14-over-par through her first 16 holes.

The Hawaiian-born teenager said she had "tweaked" the wrist injury that had seen her sidelined from competitive golf since January.

After Wie bogeyed the par-4 seventh, the 17-year-old star told a LPGA tour official: "We're not going to play anymore."

Her withdrawal may have spared her running foul of an LPGA tour rule that bans nontour members for the year if they shoot 88 or higher.

Wie was two bogeys from that scenario when she stopped.

"I had issues with my wrist," she said. "Shooting 88 is not what I think about."

Wie's round included a 10 on the par-5 third hole, when her first drive hit a parked car and rolled down a roadway drain.

"It was actually quite funny," she said. "I was going to crawl down the drain to show people it was in play. But I couldn't fit."

After her provisional tee shot went way left, Wie's third drive landed in the rough and she went on to a quintuple bogey.

Bad hole

"It was a bad hole," she said. "Everybody has a bad hole."

Wie made a final bogey on the seventth. As she headed to the tee, she was stopped by her manager, Greg Nared.

The two chatted for a few moments before they called an LPGA official to end the round.

Wie walked onto the eighth tee, shook hands with playing partners Janice Moodie and Alena Sharp, got on a cart with her mother and drove back to the clubhouse.

Wie had not played a tournament since missing the cut at the men's PGA tour's Sony Open in January.

She hopes to play in next week's major, the McDonald's LPGA Championship.

"I want to be smart about" the injury, Wie said. "But I definitely want to get back playing, so I'm going to work on it."

While Wie struggled in her return, former world number one Annika Sorenstam was pleased with her even-par 72 after missing nearly two months because of a ruptured disk and a bulging disk.

"I'm extremely happy with my round considering the circumstances," she said.

The contrasting fortunes of Sorenstam and Wie overshadowed events elsewhere as rookie Angela Park took the lead with a six-under-66, two shots ahead of a group that included top-ranked Lorena Ochoa, Paula Creamer and Pat Hurst.

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