"After I saw how I played this week, I know what I have to work on," Wie said. "I have to work out a lot more and try and get ready for the summer."
Wachovia Championship
Joey Sindelar parred the second sudden-death playoff hole on Sunday to beat fellow American Arron Oberholser and snap a 14-year US PGA title drought by winning the Wachovia Championship.
The 46-year-old veteran had not won a title since 1990 at Quad Cities, a drought of 370 events, but rallied with three late birdies to reach a playoff and then claimed his seventh career crown at the US$5.6 million event.
"I never, ever gave up hope," Sindelar said. "It hurt bad a lot of times.
"You work, work, work. You don't know when it's going to show up. You keep hitting your head against the wall and one day the wall is going to break."
Sindelar's time between triumphs is the third-longest in US PGA history, trailing Butch Baird's drought from 1961 to 1976 and Ed Fiori's 1982 to 1996 gap.
"I never thought I couldn't," Sindelar said. "Tee-to-green, I knew I could be a top-30 guy but I've been getting beat in the short game. That's the mission I've been on, trying to learn to pitch. It took me two years and 30,000 chips before I felt I could chip like a pro."
Sindelar, ranked 22nd in the world, won US$1,008 million for the victory, more than he has made in any prior full PGA season.
"That's a stupid amount of money, no matter what you do," Sindelar said.
Sindelar and Oberholser finished 72 holes at 11-under par 277, one stroke ahead of Tiger Woods and Paraguay's Carlos Franco. Americans Notah Begay, Steve Flesch, Jeff Maggert and Masters champion Phil Mickelson were on 279.
Woods made a run at the title, following a second-hole bogey with five birdies. He birdied three of four starting at the seventh and the 17th but just missed the playoff with his final-round 68 one day after a horrid 75.
Fiji's Vijay Singh, trying to become the first player since Woods in 1999 to win three consecutive US PGA events, eagled the par-5 15th to raise hopes, but a bogey at 17th and a double-bogey at 18 left him a 72 and a share of 10th.
"I'm not in Vijay's or Tiger's world," Sindelar said after spending a few hours in their neighborhood at the very least.
Sindelar's first son was only a few months old when he last won, prompting him to joke that "my sons think the trophies in my case are replicas, that we got them from a sporting goods store."
In the playoff, both men opened the same way they finished their final rounds, by parring the 18th hole.
Oberholser blasted out to 12 feet but his par putt went four feet beyond the cup.
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