Wie shot 2-over-par 74 in her once interrupted, stormy opening round of the Canadian Tour's Bay Mills Open Players' Championship. She is seven shots off the lead.

"I didn't play well in the wind. If I'd just come from Hawai'i it would have been a lot easier," Wie, 13, explained. "The place where I practice at home is really windy. The days before I left it was blowing 30-40 mph. But I've been playing in perfect conditions all summer, so it's kind of difficult."

Wie contended with a Bay Mills Resort course that stretched to 7,101 yards and had its flagsticks pinned in pesky places.

"The pin positions were really hard, especially No. 1. It was on a severe slope and it was pretty scary putting. The greens are hard to read," she said. "During the pro-am the pins were all in flat spots."

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Wie, facing a field of 153 men, made par-4 on the 396-yard first hole anyway.

"I was too sleepy this morning to be nervous. I went to sleep at 9 o'clock last night. I have to sleep a lot," said Wie, who teed off at 8:10 a.m. local time yesterday morning.

Even the 6-foot-tall Wie's prodigious driving power couldn't save her on the 486-yard, par-4 third hole — her first bogey of the round.

"It was a stupid bogey. I missed a three-footer. That killed me," said the Punahou School ninth-grader.

She recovered with four consecutive pars.

"On some holes I had some really good pars. I'm really happy."

Wie swept away a bogey on the 8th hole with a birdie on the 545-yard, par-5 ninth, which she reached with two mighty swipes, and turned at 1-over-par 37.

A thunderstorm forced her from the course after a par at 10. The rain was a mixed-blessing when she returned to the course nearly two hours later.

"The delay affected me. Before the delay I was putting well. After that I didn't putt well at all. The ball wouldn't go in," she said. "The greens weren't slower after the delay, but they were a lot softer. I'm glad for that. It made it easier from the rough."

Wie perpetrated what she called another "stupid bogey" on the par-four 12th hole when she left an uphill chip-shot short.

"Not even close," she said.

She parred in the rest of the way, including a par-save from a hazard — a ravine on the 556-yard, par-five 17th.

"I thought I could easily carry the ravine, but I didn't. I got a good break. I had a good lie in the hazard," said Wie.

When it was over, Wie found herself with a chance to do something Annika Sorenstam and Suzy Whaley could not do — make the cut in a men's professional event.

For now, Michigan-native Michael Harris leads the event at 5-under-par. He'll play one group ahead of Wie again in the second round.

"On Friday I will play the same as today and just try harder," Wie said. "I'm going to just have a good day tomorrow. Maybe some of my putts will go in."