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CHASKA, Minn. – Michelle Wie’s return to golf Thursday was an emotionally wracked mix of joy, pain and tears.
The day ended with her so choked up with emotion that she had to walk away from reporters on the front steps of the Hazeltine clubhouse, after shooting a 12-over-par 84 with an ice bag wrapped around her ailing right hand between most shots.
There was joy being back on the first tee after two months away trying to more fully heal from last fall’s surgery to repair an avulsion fracture, bone chips and nerve entrapment in her right hand and wrist.