I've posted a couple times over the past few months wondering whether Michelle Wie's atrocious performances in 2007 would affect in 2008 her ability to draw sponsor exemptions. Would most tournaments spurn her? Would only the top events turn her away? Or would it be business as usual?

Business as usual, it appears. Of course, I say this after her respectable showing at the Fields Open - where "respectable" is defined as "not embarrassing herself" (she actually played quite poorly, but scored better than she played and made the cut).

Wie's next appearance is at the Safeway International in two weeks. And it was announced yesterday that Wie is getting into the Michelob Ultra Open at Kingsmill.

That's significant because the Ultra is sort of the fifth major of the LPGA Tour, the Murray the K to the John, Paul, George and Ringo of the four majors. (Hmmm, which one of the four is Ringo? On the PGA Tour it's the PGA Championship.)

But also because Michelob and Kingsmill have been turned down by Wie each year since 2004, and they still asked her back.

I guess Wie needn't have worried. If John Daly is still getting exemptions ...