Injured Wie Probably Out Until May | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

SUPERSTITION MOUNTAIN, Ariz. — Michelle Wie’s withdrawal from this week’s Safeway International because of a wrist injury disrupts her competition schedule built around a leave of absence from Stanford University’s spring quarter. It likely also means she won’t return to competition until the second week of May, according to those close to the situation.

According to Wie’s managers at the William Morris Agency, Wie aggravated the left wrist she injured while running last year while practicing at Stanford earlier this month. Apparently, she was practicing shots out of the rough, where she spent much of 2007, and on one shot there was a ball embedded under the ball she was hitting, causing the injury.

Wie left Stanford last week to try to play as many events as possible before the fall quarter begins in late September. She is not eligible for next week’s Kraft Nabisco Championship, has no gate power …