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Updated at 5:01 a.m., Saturday, June 28, 2008

Wie, Okino, Kim miss cut at U.S. Women's Open

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All three Hawai'i golfers — Michelle Wie, Cyd Okino and Kimberly Kim — completed the postponed second round of the U.S. Women's Open today at 10-over-par 156 to miss the cut by six strokes.

Wie, who needed just one hole to finish today, shot a 2-over 75, Okino a 77 and Kim a 79 at Interlachen Country Club in Edina, Minn. Angela Park shot a 67 yesterday to take the second-round lead at 6-under 140.

Afternoon thunderstorms suspended U.S. Women's Open play for 2 hours, 27 minutes on Friday. Play resumed until the second round was called for the day because of darkness.

Wie, who started her second round on the back nine, parred the par-4 9th hole to complete her round today. It was the same hole where she took a 9 in the opening round after a promising start.

Wie hit into the trees on the right Thursday and took a quintuple-bogey on her way to an 81. She also hit to the right this morning on the ninth hole, but this time scrambled for a par for a small payback.

"I parred (No.) 9 — and at 7 o'clock in the morning," Wie said before leaving Interlachen.

It's the first time in her six U.S. Women's Opens that she missed the cut.

Okino, a 14-year-old Punahou student, was at 8 over through 14 holes, but she bogeyed the Nos. 16 and 17 today. Kim, a 16-year-old former Big Island resident now living in Arizona, also was at 8 over through 17 holes, but double-bogeyed her final hole, the No. 9.

Kim and Wie played in the same group for the first two rounds.