Annika Sorenstam is showing the class that Michelle Wie will apparently never have, turning down a special exemption to play in the Samsung World Championship. This is the exclusive 20-golfer field tournament, the one that was supposed to be limited to major championship winners from this year, top money list players ... and well, one spoiled overhyped golfer.

Wie, of course, took the exemption offered to her to play in the Samsung as quickly as Paris Hilton grabs for another designer purse. Everyone on the LPGA Tour - everyone in golf really - knew it was the wrong thing for Wie to do. She did it anyways.

And now Sorenstam is making her look even more ridiculous and completely selfish.

Sorenstam is arguably the greatest player in the history of women's golf. She's certainly in the top two. If anyone deserves an exemption to a tournament that professes to reward excellence, it's Annika. Still, she told the Samsung folks, Thanks, but no thanks.

"She didn't want the perception that she was taking a spot," Sorenstam's agent Mark Steinberg told the Associated Press. "She decided to do what's best for the LPGA."

That's why she's Annika Sorenstam and Michelle Wie's well Michelle Wie, a petulant spoiled teen.

Look, did Sorenstam do this in part to embarrass Wie? In all likelihood, yes. Sorenstam quietly seethed for months over the way Wie treated a Tour Annika helped build up as something almost beneath her. She abandoned the quiet part when Wie walked out on Sorenstam's own tournament with the biggest phony-seeming injury withdrawal in sports history.

But you know what? Someone needs to embarrass Wie. Her camp had months and months, as Wie's already shaky game broke down, to do the right thing and turn down the exemption.

I actually thought Wie was headed in the right direction after seeing the way she battled in the LPGA Championship, seeing how her father B.J. Wie stepped in and stopped her from snubbing autograph-seeking fans after a tough day. The arrogance always seems to come back with Team Wie though.

Now Wie needs to drop the stubborn attitude of a temper-tantruming toddler and admit she's wrong. She should pull out of the Samsung on Monday, give up her spot to Natalie Gulbis, who's earned the trip to Palm Springs. Wie should even talk about how she learned something from Sorenstam's gesture and wants to be that type of ambassador to women's golf later in her career.

You have a better chance of seeing Chicago Cubs - who already have packed up their locker room - playing on in the playoffs than Wie ever doing this though.

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