Vijay Singh said he was sorry if his comments about Annika Sorenstam playing on the PGA Tour - "I hope she misses the cut" - came across as a personal attack."If it was an attack on Annika at all, I would like to apologize to her," Singh said on Tuesday after a practice round for this week's Byron Nelson Classic. "It was not put that way. It came out the wrong way."

　　Singh said on Sunday that the Swede had no business playing in next week's Colonial and said that on the odd chance he gets paired with her, he'd withdraw.

　　"I hope she misses the cut. Why? Because she doesn't belong out here," Singh said as he left the locker room after the Wachovia Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina. "If I'm drawn with her, which I won't be, I won't play."

　　On Tuesday, Singh attempted to cast his remarks in a different light.

　　"I actually said if I miss the cut, I'd rather she miss the cut as well," he told reporters who were waiting for him as he came off the course. "I hope she missed the cut because I don't want to have a woman beat me."

　　Singh said on Tuesday he would play with Sorenstam if they both made the cut and were paired in the weekend rounds. But he said something would be wrong if the two were paired for the first two rounds because, as a past champion, he is drawn from a different pool.

　　"I was saying my category was different," Singh said. "If I was put with her, it means I wasn't given the right attention for my category."

　　Singh's reaction has been the strongest yet about Sorenstam becoming the first woman in 58 years to compete on the tour. The last woman to do so was Babe Zaharias, who qualified for the 1945 Los Angeles Open.

　　Efforts to reach Sorenstam through her agent were unsuccessful.

　　The Colonial is an invitational with a limited field. Sorenstam received one of eight sponsor's exemptions, and Singh reiterated his feeling that she didn't deserve one.

　　"This is a man's tour," he said. "There are guys out there trying to make a living. It's not a ladies' tour. If she wants to play, she should - or any other woman for that matter - if they want to play the man's tour, they should qualify and play like everybody else."

　　Asked Tuesday if he spoke for a majority of tour players, Singh said, "I speak for myself and that's my opinion."