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National | Outspoken golfer Vijay Singh didn't play in the Colonial golf tournament and he said it was because of a woman. | John Dawson

Outspoken golfer Vijay Singh didn't play in the Colonial golf tournament and he said it was because of a woman. No, not Annika Sorenstam—his wife. "I told my wife last week that if I won a tournament, I would take a week off," he said after winning the Byron Nelson Championship just one week before the Colonial. Mr. Singh had previously said that he would pull out of the Colonial if tournament officials paired him with Annika Sorenstam, who made the first appearance by a woman on the PGA tour in almost 60 years. "It has nothing to do with the controversy. It just came at the right time, I guess. Just as well."

Mr. Singh vehemently opposed Ms. Sorenstam's participation in the Colonial, saying she should have earned her tour card like all others before playing in a PGA event. The Fort Worth club instead granted Ms. Sorenstam—lauded as the female Tiger Woods—an exception.