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Chronic injuries have punished great players in the past, but usually not as early as Michelle Wie is experiencing with her troublesome wrist injury. Michelle Wie withdrew from the Safeway International on Friday after tweaking an injury to her left wrist during practice last week.

Michelle apparantly reinjured her left wrist when she accidentally hit a ball that was embedded in thick rough on the driving range at her home base of Stanford University on March 13.

“I am extremely disappointed to miss the 2008 Safeway International,” Wie said. “I’m so grateful to Tom Maletis and the entire tournament staff for offering me this great opportunity, and hope to be back again next year.

The “great opportunity” Michelle is referring to is the sponsor exemption she garnered from tournament officicals to play in the event next week at Superstition Mountain in Arizona. She has played only one tournament this year, finishing 20 strokes behind winner Paula Creamer in the Fields Open in Hawaii late last month.

Smoller said Wie immediately consulted a doctor at Stanford and also saw a hand specialist in Los Angeles on Monday.

“Fortunately, X-rays, an MRI and a CAT scan didn’t show any major injury,” Smoller said. “Her doctor diagnosed it as a sprain, and advised Michelle to rest the wrist for a few weeks to allow it to heal properly.”

A piece of “rough”? Isn’t that pretty common in golf? It’s hard to believe that Michelle’s wrists are not stronger after playing golf since she was very young. Tiger Woods hits out from gravel and behind tree roots, and has broken a club or two in the process. Yet he never seems to have wrist injuries.

Granted, this has got to be very frustrating for Michelle, but how many sponsor exemptions can you miss for one reason or another before they just stop coming. The answer is only when Michelle draws no crowds or fans. When the money stops, the invitations will stop as well.

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Michelle Wie will be sitting out of some golf for the next month or so while she nurses a wrist injury back to normal. She apparantly suffered this injury after falling while running. Doctors expect it will take four to six weeks to heal. Wie’s right wrist was tightly taped from an injury last month at the Sony Open, where she missed the cut.Can we take much more drama on this? Last year it was heat exhaustion and now this. You would think that she has played on the tour for decades. Do you remember Jack Nicklaus having this much drama to his career? There is even speculation that Michelle injured her wrist intentionally. That might be stretching it a bit, but you never know. Michelle just can’t seem to shake the fact that there always seems to be an excuse for poor play – and now it seems there is an excuse even before play begins. Until she starts winning big time, the conspiracy and rumors will never end.