Wie withdraws from Safeway International | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

Michelle Wie, whose return to competitive golf after a dismal, injury-plagued 2007 season resulted in a last-place finish at the LPGA Tour’s Fields Open on her home course at Ko-Olina Golf Club last month, withdrew March 21 from next week’s Safeway International, citing an injured left wrist.

“I am extremely disappointed to miss the 2008 Safeway International,” Wie said in a statement released through the William Morris Agency. “I’m so grateful to [tournament director] Tom Maletis and the entire tournament staff for offering me this great opportunity and hope to be back again next year.” Wie, who was to play the Safeway on a sponsor’s exemption, first hurt the wrist when she fell while running a year ago.

According to WMA, Wie reinjured the wrist when she hit a ball embedded in a thick rough at the range at Stanford March 13. She immediately consulted a doctor at Stanford, where …