Wie will play tomorrow at Turtle Bay's Palmer Course in the first of Hawai'i's four local qualifiers.

There are two more women trying to qualify at the 107 local sites. Isabelle Beisiegel, ranked 129th on the LPGA money list, and Carmen Bandea, a 14-year-old who tied for 11th at last year's Georgia Women's Open, will play in Atlanta on May 23.

Wie, 15, needs to finish in the top four tomorrow to play in a sectional.

There will be 60 men joining her at Turtle Bay, including Kevin Hayashi, Regan Lee and Hawai'i Golf Hall of Famers Daniel Nishimoto and Larry Stubblefield. Parker McLachlin, who advanced from Hawai'i's sectional last year, is playing the new local qualifier on the Big Island.

The top three from Saturday's local qualifier at Ka'anapali, and two each from Kaua'i (next Thursday at Po'ipu Bay) and the Big Island (May 23 at Waikoloa Beach) also go to sectionals.

Both Beisiegel and Wie have chosen to play at the Rockville, Md., sectional on June 6 should they advance. There are 14 sectionals across the country. Those top finishers advance to the U.S. Open, June 16 to 19 at Pinehurst in North Carolina.

Hawai'i will have its own 36-hole sectional for the second year, June 6 at Ka'anapali North. Only one golfer advances from Hawai'i's sectional.

In February, Wie was the only player to break par every day in the LPGA's SBS Classic at the Palmer Course. Three rounds of 70 gave her a second-place finish behind Jennifer Rosales. Because Wie is an amateur, she turned down nearly $80,000 in prize money.

Wie's 13th-place finish — she was low amateur — at last year's U.S. Women's Open qualifies her for this year's tournament, June 23 to 26 in Colorado. A dozen others from Hawai'i, and three from Australia, Japan and the Mainland, will play in Monday's U.S. Women's Open local qualifier at Ko Olina Golf Club.

That field includes teenagers Stephanie Kono and Mari Chun, who have won state match play titles, and two-time Women's Amateur Public Links champion Lori Planos. The top four advance to the Hawai'i sectional June 13 at Ko Olina. The medalist there goes to Colorado.

A record 1,158 entries were received for this year's Women's Open. The Big Island's Christine and Kimberly Kim are among 14 sets of sisters that entered.

There will be 100 men playing in the U.S. Open qualifiers on the Neighbor Islands. The final entry total of 161 is four more than last year. The 15 women playing Monday is less than half last year's total.

"The men's total is somewhat up from last year and I'm going to look at it as a positive," said Kaua'i's Mary Bea Porter-King, whose presence on the U.S. Golf Association executive committee helped bring more local qualifiers and both sectionals to Hawai'i. "The women's side concerns me."

Porter-King should find out this summer if Hawai'i will keep its Open qualifying schedule.