Michelle Wie withdrew from the Ginn Tribute on Thursday after playing much of the first round with bandaged wrists and shooting 14 over par through 16 holes. After Wie bogeyed the par-4 seventh, the 17-year-old star from Hawaii told an LPGA tour official: "We're not going to play anymore." Her round included a 10 on the par-5 third hole. She shook hands with her playing partners on the eighth tee and rode the cart back to the clubhouse with her caddie and parents.

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Go low or go home may be the motto at the Memorial, where some big names left early while others started strong.

Justin Leonard, Paul Azinger and Darren Clarke committed on Thursday to play at the Buick Open, where they will compete against Tiger Woods unless fatherhood keeps him from defending his title. Leonard won the 1996 Buick Open; Azinger ranks 37th on the U.S. PGA Tour's career earnings list; and Clarke has played for Europe in five Ryder Cups.

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Former British Open champion Paul Lawrie and eight others shared the lead at 4-under-par 65 in the first round of the Wales Open on Thursday. Lawrie made his timely return to form just seven weeks before this year's Open at Carnoustie, where he won in a playoff in 1999 after Jean Van de Velde threw it away on the final hole. Two more Scots, Gary Orr and Steven O'Hara, led along with Paul Broadhurst, Brett Rumford, Ricardo Gonzalez, Soren Kjeldsen, Steve Alker and Jose Manuel Lara.

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The Sports Professor Rick Horrow talks LPGA popularity, Franchitti's big win in Indy, and why your youngster should become a major league pitcher.

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The Sports Professor Rick Horrow breaks down LPGA's Ginn Tribute and the sport's increasing popularity in this Golf Business Minute.

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The Sports Professor Rick Horrow discusses advertising in sports, SEC football's annual meeting, LPGA's growing popularity and more.

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Vijay Singh is leading the charge, but can the European Tour keep up with the glitz and glamour of the U.S. PGA Tour?

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Michelle Wie is downplaying her return to the LPGA Tour, saying she spent the time rehabbing from a wrist injury enjoying the final semester of high school instead of worrying about golf. "I really got to enjoy and really got to hang out with my friends," said Wie on Tuesday. "I was actually the one who was calling my friends and telling them to get me out of this house."

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MacKinzie Kline was never one to wait for her chance, no matter how many surgeons or specialists told her to slow down. Kline's drive will be rewarded this week. The 15-year-old rising junior golfer who was born with a congenital heart defect will play in her first LPGA Tour event, the $2.6 million Ginn Tribute near Charleston.