Hewitt Notes

Brian Hewitt has a couple of interesting tidbits in his GolfChannel.com column. The first relates to the Phoenix Open:

Meanwhile, also don’t be surprised if the TPC Champions course, located right next door to the Stadium course at the TPC Scottsdale, shares the venue for the FBR Open starting in 2009.
 
In the past the FBR Open, played in early February, has had to limit its field to 132 players due to frost delays in the mornings and dwindling daylight in the late afternoon.
 
Utilizing two courses, the first two days, it would enable the TOUR to better handle a 156-man field. The use of the two courses at Torrey Pines is why the field at the Buick Invitational is 156 players.
 
Under this plan, the weekend rounds for the FBR Open would remain solely at the TPC Scottsdale.

He also drops this item on Michelle Wie, the Sony Open and here recent WD from the Casio which I don't think I've seen elsewhere:

The question of whether Michelle Wie will play in the Sony Open in January is a complicated one and one without an answer at the moment.
 
Sony Open officials say they will announce their sponsor’s exemptions in November.
 
Meanwhile, Wie still represents Sony products. But she missed the cut there earlier this year by 14 shots. Casio World Open officials this week basically disinvited Wie to their November event, saying, according to one spokesman, “Basically, we have determined that she cannot play to her full potential because she has yet to recover from hand injuries suffered early in the season.”