Wie accepts offer to play LPGA event in France

Associated Press

PARIS — Fourteen-year-old golf sensation Michelle Wie accepted an invitation to play in an LPGA tournament this summer in the French Alps.

The Punahou School student agreed last week to compete in the Evian Masters, tournament spokesman Alain Spieser said yesterday.

Wie, an amateur, missed the cut by one stroke this month in the PGA Tour's Sony Open in Hawai'i.

The $2.6 million Evian tournament will be held July 21-24. Defending champion Juli Inkster and Annika Sorenstam, the world's No. 1 player, also will play.