Michelle Wie plans to play in PGA Tour event

Shortly after a disqualification on the LPGA Tour, Michelle Wie has decided to tee it up against the men — again.

Wie will play in next week's Legends Reno-Tahoe Open in Nevada, the first time she will compete on the PGA Tour this year, tournament organizers said.

It will be Wie's eighth time in a PGA Tour event, and she has yet to make a cut. Wie, who is from Honolulu, made money playing against the men on the Korean Tour in 2006 at the SK Telcom Open.

"It's not every day that a woman is given the opportunity to play on the greatest Tour in the world," Wie said in a statement. "This is a tremendous opportunity for me to learn from these great players and take those lessons into the future to becoming the best player I can be on any tour. This is another step in the process of making me a better player."

Wie, who is 18 and a Stanford student, has no status on any tour. She has one sponsor's exemption left this year.

She will be playing in her seventh and final LPGA Tour event of this year at the CN Canadian Women's Open in August.

The Reno-Tahoe Open starts July 31 and might be one of the weakest PGA Tour events; it is held opposite the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio.

Wie showed positive signs last week at the State Farm Classic in Illinois. She was a shot off the lead going into the final round when LPGA Tour officials discovered she had left the scoring area without signing her scorecard after Friday's second round. Wie finished her round Saturday; after officials spoke with her about the scorecard problem, she was disqualified.

A win or high finish would have all but guaranteed her enough money to finish among the top 80 LPGA players this year, the cutoff for automatic inclusion in next year's Tour.

Wie's chances of securing a 2009 LPGA Tour card rest with her winning roughly $80,000 in her final tournament, which probably would take a top-three finish. Otherwise, she could be headed to the first of two stages of qualifying.

Harrington to aim higher

SOUTHPORT, England — Padraig Harrington never tires of reading the fine print on the silver Claret Jug, and as he stood up from a table Monday morning at Royal Birkdale, he slowly turned golf's oldest trophy to see his name on consecutive rows.

There were more than 100 names. It is also worth noting what wasn't on the jug.

"I don't think this champion has anything to worry about with asterisks etched next to his name," Royal & Ancient chief executive Peter Dawson said of Harrington. "He proved that last year."

The bluster at the start of this year's British Open was whether the winner should get full credit because American Tiger Woods, ranked No. 1 in the world, is recovering from surgery and didn't play. That was forgotten after Harrington shot a 32 over his final nine holes in 30 mph wind to match Woods as a back-to-back champion.

One question is how much more the Irishman can achieve.

"Winning the first major last year ... the reflection on that was, 'Guys have won one major. Let's try to set yourself apart and win two,' " Harrington said Monday after his four-shot victory moved him from No. 14 to No. 3 in the Official World Golf Ranking, behind Woods and Phil Mickelson.

"Now that I've got two [majors], I'm in a different club now. What's the next club? I will have time to reflect and reset some new goals. You've got to keep pushing."

Harrington, 36, received a phone call from Mary McAleese, the president of Ireland.