GLADSTONE, N.J. » Michelle Wie smacked herself on the rear end after three-putting for her lone bogey in the first round of the Sybase Match Play Championship.

“;I was angry,”; said Wie, a Punahou graduate and 2-up winner over Stacy Prammanasudh yesterday at Hamilton Farm. “;I do that so that I get angry and forget about it and move on.

“;I just said, 'It was a stupid error, a stupid mistake.' I get mad at myself for a little bit, so I don't take it to the next tee box and I'm completely over it.”;

It worked.

After falling behind with the bogey on the par-3 eighth, Wie birdied Nos. 10 and 11 to regain the lead. Prammanasudh birdied 15 to tie it, but Wie pulled ahead with a 30-foot birdie putt on the par-3 16th and won with a conceded birdie on 18.

“;It was a fight. She played extremely well,”; Wie said. “;It was one of those matches where you had to make birdie to win, so kind of with that mind-set, I went out and grinded and just tried to make birdies.”;

The eighth-seeded Wie will face Hee Young Park, a 19-hole winner over Ji Young Oh, in the second round today.

Top-seeded Jiyai Shin and No. 2 Ai Miyazato also advanced, while 49-year-old Juli Inkster rallied to beat third-seeded Suzann Pettersen in 21 holes.

“;If Suzann and I played 10 days in a row, she would probably beat me seven,”; said Inkster, a 31-time LPGA Tour winner in her Hall of Fame career.

In perfect, cloudless conditions after rain soaked the hilly course Tuesday, Shin beat Kyeong Bae 3 and 2, and Miyazato, the winner of three of the first six events of the season, topped Jeong Jang 4 and 3. Because of the wet conditions, players were allowed to lift, clean and place their balls in the fairways.

On the 515-yard 18th, Wie laid up and hit a wedge shot to 8 feet. Prammanasudh hit her second shot into a bunker about 80 yards from the green, sent her third over the green and conceded after failing to reach the putting surface with her fourth shot.

“;It's match play, you never know what is going to happen,”; Prammanasudh said. “;I played my best. ... I hit great shots all day and unfortunately hit one bad one.”;

Playing in the last group of the day, Wie and Prammanasudh teed off a little over 30 minutes late because three of the first four matches went to extra holes.

They still got off to a fast start, with Wie holing out from 50 feet for the first of her seven birdies after Prammanasudh hit her second shot to 3 feet.

“;She put it in 3 feet and that's the only thing I had,”; Wie said.

Two lead at Byron Nelson

Jason Day birdied four of his first six holes at the Byron Nelson Championshipon his way to a 4-under 66 for a share of the first-round lead when play was suspended late yesterday.

The threatening skies that sent Day fetching his umbrella never actually drenched the TPC Four Seasons course, but the radar looked so scary there was a delay of 3 hours, 44 minutes.

Joe Durant finished with an eagle and a birdie to match Day at 66. Steve Elkington, Hunter Mahan and Jarrod Lyle were still on the course with scores of 4 under.

Elkington will have two holes left, Mahan three and Lyle seven when play resumes at 7:15 a.m. today, pushing back the start of the second round by an hour.

Willett sets course record

Danny Willett set a course record by shooting 6-under 65 in the BMW PGA Championship yesterday for a one-stroke lead over Richard Green.

Ross Fisher was among a group of four players who shot 67, joining Richie Ramsay, S.S.P. Chowrasia and Steve Webster.

Top European player Lee Westwood shot a 1-under 70, making double bogey on the 10th. He was tied with defending champion Paul Casey.