A story in this week's East Valley (Ariz.) Tribune said Wie had officially declined an exemption to play in the Safeway International in two weeks because of her injured left wrist. It also quoted a Safeway tournament director as saying Wie was "unofficially" out of the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the year's first major the following week in Rancho Mirage, Calif.

The Wie spokesman said his client had informed Safeway early that she would not play "as a courtesy" because she had been offered the exemption. He added that her chances of playing at Kraft are "50-50." Wie earned her way into the major with a third-place finish last year so she can wait until just before the event to make a decision on whether to play.

Wie played against the PGA Tour in January's Sony Open in Hawai'i with a sore right wrist wrapped in a bandage. She missed the cut for the fourth time in as many years. Wie said she hurt that wrist when she hit off a cart path in October's Samsung World Championship and had been told it could be anything from "a tendon strain ... to a pinched nerve."

Soon after, she injured her left wrist and has been wearing a cast, and later a brace, on it. The family says it is not a fracture and her rehabilitation is going "as expected." The spokesman added that the time off from golf to heal the left wrist has helped her right wrist recover. 

Wie has finished in the Top 15 all four years she has played at Kraft, coming within a shot of a playoff last year.