Honolulu's Michelle Wie shot a 1-over-par 73 today in the first round of the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open in Reno, Nev., where the leader shot 65 and another Hawai'i product, Parker McLachlin, shot 68.

Wie, playing on the PGA Tour for the first time since January 2007, is tied for 77th place and is close to the cutline. After tomorrow's second round, the top 70 or so players and ties advance to play on the weekend.

The first-round leader is Jeff Overton, who shot 7-under 65.

Wie had two bogeys and two birdies on the front nine at the 7,472-yard mountain course at Montreux Golf & Country Club, making the turn at even-par 36.

She bogeyed the 12th and 16th, both par-3 holes. Wie birdied the 17th, a par-5 to close at 1-over 37.

Wie is playing on a sponsor's exemption. It is the eighth time in her career Wie has played with the men on the PGA Tour, none resulting so far in play into the weekend. The cut has averaged exactly even par in the nine previous years of the Reno tournament, which runs opposite the Bridgestone Invitational where the top 50 men are playing in Ohio this week.

More than 400 people — the biggest gallery on the course — crowded around the first tee on the edge of the Sierra Nevada where Wie drove the ball into the left rough. She managed to hit her approach 195 yards onto the front of the green but carded a bogey after she left her 60-foot putt 20 feet short of the hole.

She also bogeyed the par-4 fifth before she hit her approach 160 yards to within 5 feet of the pin and sank the birdie on the par-4 sixth. She saved par on the difficult 220-yard, par-3 No. 7 after blasting out of the sand to within 13 feet and did it again on No. 8 with a two putt from 50 feet after she hit a ponderosa pine tree off the tee and a deputy sheriff confiscated a cell phone from a fan who took her picture during her back swing from the rough.

Overton, a former all-Big Ten golfer at Indiana, birdied four of the first five holes and made eight birdie putts on the day — seven from 10 feet or closer — to go with a lone bogey for a two shot lead over Harrison Frazar, Brian Davis and Marco Dawson at 67.

McLachlin, a former Punahou School athlete, had six birdies and two bogeys.

Starting on the back nine, McLachlin birdied three consecutive holes (Nos. 11-13) before dropping a shot with a bogey on No. 16 to make the turn at 2-under 34.

On his back nine, McLachlin bogeyed the second to drop to 1-under overall.

But he birdied three of his next six holes to close at 2-under 34.