Sorenstam’s sympathetic text message picks up Wie

It didn’t take long for Michelle Wie to get over her recent setback, thanks to the No. 1 player in the world.

A day after Wie was disquali ' ed from

the Samsung World

Championship, tournament winner Annika

Sorenstam sent a text message to Wie’s cellphone.

“ Annika was not happy to hear of Michelle’s disquali ' cation,” said Wie’s father, B. J. “ She encouraged her to keep her chin up and not to get frustrated or disappointed. They were comforting words. Michelle was pretty quiet, but after getting the message from Annika, she was excited.”

Thisweekend Wie will present a check for $500,000 toward the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund. Sunday she will play golf with former President Bill Clinton. Wie: Got a boost from Sorenstam.

Tuesday she accepted a sponsor’s exemption for the third consecutive year to play in the PGA Tour Sony Open in Hawaii. She failed to make the cut there in her ' rst two attempts, both as an amateur. Moore and Tiger: Ryan Moore’s 13thplace ' nish Sunday at the Funai Classic allowed him to become the ' rst player since Tiger Woods to skip Q- school because of earnings and go straight from college to the PGA Tour. But that was only a small part of what he wanted to achieve.

He wanted to do at least as much as Woods.

And after Moore tied for 13th at Disney to secure his Tour card, he even sounded like a young Woods.

“ For how I’ve been playing, for how I’ve felt the last few months on the golf course, yes, I’m very proud of myself,” Moore said.

“ This is, probably if not the best, one of the best accomplishments I’ve ever done. I de ' nitely didn’t have my A- game out there. I was just able to get it around the best I could.”

Without his A- game, all he did was shoot 18 under and ' nish ' ve shots behind winner Lucas Glover.

“ I never thought it was going to be easy,” Moore said. “ I just didn’t make enough birdies the last two weeks to get myself high enough.”

High enough for what?

Turns out Moore wanted more than just his card. He wanted to get into the Tour Championship.

“ Absolutely,” he said, slightly indignant. “ I wasn’t trying to get in the top 125. That was never my goal. I’m trying to win. I was trying to get myself in the Tour Championship. That’s been my goal the whole year. If you shoot for that stuff, everything falls in place after it. I’ve never been one to ‘ settle,’ and I never will.” No Goose: The European Tour Order of Merit is now a two- man battle between Colin Montgomerie and Michael Campbell, to be settled this week at the season- Volvo Masters in Spain.

Montgomerie will try for an eighth money title, and he leads the U.S. Open champion by about $ 183,000. That means Campbell must ' nish at least ' fth to have any chance of winning.

Retief Goosen, meanwhile, took himself out of the race when he didn’t play for three weekswhile spending time with his family and resting a sore groin.

Goosen missed the American Express Championship, a $ 7.5million event thatwould have at least kept him in contention for a third Order of Merit.

By not playing — Montgomerie earned $353,666 with a tie for third at Harding Park — Goosen is nearly $400,000 behind and will play on the PGA Tour this week. Stat of the week: Fourteen of the 32 players who won PGA Tour events last year are outside the top 50 on this year’s money list. Contributing: Wire reports

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