GOLF ROUNDUP Michelle Wie is disqualified in pro debut

Annika Sorenstam distanced the field by eight shots.
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PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) -- Michelle Wie's pro debut made her look like an amateur Sunday when she was disqualified for taking a bad drop from the bushes in the third round Saturday of the Samsung World Championship.
Talk about a rude welcome to the professional world.
First, Annika Sorenstam blew away the field to win by eight shots, even with a double bogey on the last hole.
Then, the 16-year-old Wie no sooner had signed for a 74 to finish fourth -- $53,126 -- on Sunday when LPGA Tour officials took her out to the seventh hole to discuss a drop she took the day before.
The scenario
Wie hit a 5-wood into a Gold Lantana bush Saturday and was barely able to find it. She told Grace Park that she was taking a lie that was not playable, dropped away from the bush for a one-stroke penalty, then chipped to 15 feet and made the par. It was a critical par save, and Wie went on to a 71.
The LPGA Tour was notified about the drop, and officials reviewed tape from NBC Sports before taking Wie and caddie Greg Johnston to the seventh green after the tournament ended Sunday.
Nearly two hours later, LPGA Tour rules official Jim Haley and Robert O. Smith said she was disqualified.
Lost amid the hype of Wie's pro debut, Sorenstam closed with a 3-under 69 on a rainy afternoon in the desert to win by eight shots.
It was the third time this year, and ninth time in her Hall of Fame career, that Sorenstam has won by at least eight.
Michelin Championship
LAS VEGAS -- Wes Short Jr. hit his bunker shot within a foot of the pin, then tapped in for a par on the second hole of a playoff with Jim Furyk to win his first PGA Tour title.
Short, who joined the tour last year as a 40-year-old rookie, raised both arms and beamed after the ball dropped into the cup. He forced the playoff by rolling in a 9-foot birdie putt on the final hole of regulation.
Furyk, trying for his fourth Las Vegas victory, three-putted No. 18 for a bogey in regulation, giving Short a chance to catch him.
Both parred the first extra hole, then Furyk, who has won only one of six playoffs in his tour career, pulled his tee shot into the water on the par-3 17th.
Short hit into the bunker, but recovered to take the $720,000 winner's prize by nestling his shot out of the sand close to the pin. After a drop, Furyk left his third shot 12 feet from the hold and could only watch as Short sank the winner.
Short closed with a 6-under 66 and Furyk had a 65 for 21-under 266 totals for three rounds.
Administaff Small Business Classic
SPRING, Texas -- Mark McNulty won his second Champions Tour title of the year, closing with a 6-under 66 for a one-stroke victory over Gil Morgan.
McNulty, the longtime European tour player from Zimbabwe, had a 16-under 200 total on the Augusta Pines course. He birdied two of the last three holes and also had two eagles in the final round.
Morgan birdied the final hole for his third straight 67.
The 51-year-old McNulty also has 55 international victories, 16 on the European tour.
Hale Irwin closed with a 68 to finish third at 14 under. Second-round leader Brad Bryant (71) followed at 13 under, and Jay Haas (70) and Bruce Lietzke (67) were 12-under.
Madrid Open
MADRID, Spain -- France's Raphael Jacquelin won his first European tour title, closing with a 2-under 69 for a three-shot victory over 1999 British Open champion Paul Lawrie.
Jacquelin had a 23-under 261 total on the Club de Campo course. He opened with three straight 64s to take a seven-stroke lead into the final round. Lawrie shot a 64.