Michelle Wie will have to wait to play until another day. Make that another week.
After sitting out the first LPGA major championship of the season this week because of a wrist injury, Wie has turned down a sponsor exemption from the Ginn Open, set to be played the week after the Masters outside Orlando.
Wie sat out the Kraft Nabisco Championship this week, the first major she's missed in two years. The 17-year-old broke her left wrist in a fall several weeks ago and has begun practicing, but evidently isn't ready for tournament play, a Ginn official said.
Officials at the Ginn Open, which is played a couple of miles from the home base of her swing coach, David Leadbetter, were informed Friday that she was declining their exemption offer for the second year in a row. The Ginn event is set for April 12-15.
It's unclear where Wie will make her first appearance of 2007. Last year, she didn't play between the Kraft Nabisco event and the season's second major, the McDonald’s LPGA Championship, staged in mid-June.
A message left Saturday with Wie's family spokesman, Jesse Derris, was not immediately returned.
