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Tadd Fujikawa and Michelle Wie didn't have a good day on the golf course yesterday. The Hawaii teens are last in their respective events.
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Struggles continue for Fujikawa and Wie
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Tadd Fujikawa and Michelle Wie had something in common yesterday. They were at the bottom of their respective golf tournaments looking way up.
For Wie, she has a chance to redeem herself over the weekend at the Samsung World Championship, but for Fujikawa, he missed the cut at the PGA Tour's Frys.com with a two-day total of 10-over 154. The Moanalua High junior was last in the field trailing second-day leaders Garrett Willis, D.J. Trahan and George McNeill by 24 shots after shooting a 9-over 80 yesterday at the TPC Canyons course. He opened with a 2-over 74 on Thursday at the TPC Summerlin course.
Wie isn't doing much better in Palm Desert, Calif. The Stanford freshman shot her second consecutive 79 yesterday to trail world No. 1 Lorena Ochoa by 23 shots in the elite 20-player field. Wie has been battling wrist injuries all year.
"I obviously had a tough time today," Wie said. "I made a couple of putts, but there is tomorrow, so I'm going to play better tomorrow."
There will be no tomorrow for Parker McLachlin and Dean Wilson. Both joined Fujikawa on the sidelines, finishing at 2-under 141, missing the cut by two.
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Tadd Fujikawa and Michelle Wie didn't have a good day on the golf course yesterday. The Hawaii teens are last in their respective events.
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PALM DESERT, Calif. » Defending champion Lorena Ochoa shot a 5-under 67 yesterday to take a one-shot lead after the second round of the Samsung World Championship.
Ochoa's bogey-free round moved her to 9-under 135 through 36 holes, one shot in front of Paula Creamer, Angela Park and Angela Stanford.
"It was easy today," Ochoa said. "I felt like it was important to be if not in the lead, within one or two shots.
"Now, I'm where I like to be and I can't wait for tomorrow."
Knocking her drives straight down the fairways and steady with her irons and her putter, Ochoa birdied all four of the par 5s at Big Horn Country club, and made another birdie putt on the par-4 14th.
"I kind of had a lot of confidence in my driver," she said, noting that she had overcome a tendency to hit the ball to the right that had affected her first round.
Stanford moved into contention with the lowest round of the day, a 66. Creamer and Park, who were tied for the lead after the first day, had second-round 69s.
For Hawaii's Michelle Wie, it was another bad day in a mostly bad year on the course, her round including shots straying into brush and water on the way to her second consecutive 79. She remained in 20th and last place in the elite field.
"I just have to work on my tee shots, but other than that, I think that my irons have been stroking well and are pretty solid," said Wie. "I just have to keep the ball in the fairway and go from there."
Her shot into a bush on the par-5 seventh and a drop led to a double-bogey 7, and a shot into the water at No. 14 cost her another double bogey. Her first 7 didn't look quite so bad, however, compared with the quintuple-bogey 10 playing partner Bettina Hauert of Germany had to write on her card.
Hauert finished with an 81, but held onto 19th place, one shot in front of Wie.
Wie, the Stanford freshman who turned 18 on Thursday, finished 17th in the tournament last year. She made her pro debut in the event in 2005 but was disqualified after the final round for signing an incorrect scorecard for the third round. If she hadn't been disqualified, she would have finished fourth.
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Lorena Ochoa fired a bogey-free 67 yesterday to overtake Paula Creamer and Angela Park for the lead at 135 yesterday.
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Michelle Wie got some help from her father and caddie, B.J. Wie, looking over a putt on the second green yesterday.
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Three share Frys.com lead
LAS VEGAS » Garrett Willis arrived at the course behind schedule, cut short his time at the driving range and managed an abbreviated warmup workout in the fitness trailer before beginning play.
It didn't seem to matter much -- well, aside from that bogey on his second hole.
Willis shot a 10-under 62 on the TPC Summerlin course yesterday for a share of the second-round lead in the Frys.com Open.
D.J. Trahan and rookie George McNeill matched Willis at 13-under 130. McNeill shot a 7-under 64 on the par-71 TPC The Canyons course and Trahan had a 64 on the same course in an event missing all of the world's top-20 players.
Jason Gore and John Huston were tied for fourth at 12 under.
All three golfers from Hawaii failed to make cut.
Castle graduate Dean Wilson (70) and Punahou alum Parker McLachlin (72) finished at 141, while Moanalua's Tadd Fujikawa (80) ended at 154.