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Posted on: Sunday, June 10, 2007

Wie last in LPGA after an 11-over-83

 • Special report: Michelle Wie

By Doug Ferguson
Associated Press

Michelle Wie says her left wrist is bothering her and isn't sure if she'll be able to play the final round of the LPGA Championship.

TOM HORAN | Associated Press

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HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. — Even against the men, Michelle Wie hasn't shot this big a number since she was in the ninth grade.

Wie's woes continued yesterday at the LPGA Championship when she shot an 11-over 83 at Bulle Rock, leaving her in last place by five shots among the 84 players who made the cut and uncertain if she would show up for the final round.

Her left wrist was clearly bothering her, and Wie had it wrapped in ice immediately after signing her scorecard. Asked if she would return today, the 17-year-old from Hawai'i said she wasn't sure.

"I really want to play," the recent Punahou School graduate said. "I think it would be awesome to get another round under my belt. I just have to see how it goes tonight. If you don't see me on the first tee tomorrow morning, you'll know."

Starting with a double bogey on the third hole when a gust sent her ball over the green and no one could find it, Wie struggled to make pars and rarely gave herself a chance at birdie. She made one birdie on the sixth hole from 5 feet.

It was Wie's highest round since an 85 in the opening round of the CJ Nine Bridges Classic in South Korea in 2003, when she was 14 and a freshman in high school.

But she did hit driver for the first time on the par-5 11th, into the right rough, which led to bogey.

"I cranked one on 11," Wie said.

A reporter asked her where exactly she cranked it and she repeated the 11th hole, until realizing he meant where the ball went.

"Oh," she said. "In the rough. But I don't care. I hit driver for the first time in 54 holes. It was really therapeutic."