Wie ousted in opening round play; Aree Song winner twice

Maru Martinez defeated Wie, but then lost in the second round.
GLADWYNE, Pa. (AP) -- Teen sensation Michelle Wie was beaten 1-up by Maru Martinez in the first round of the U.S. Women's Amateur.
The 13-year-old from Honolulu won the U.S. Women's Public Links in June. Two weeks ago, she was eliminated in the third round of the U.S. Girls' Junior.
Martinez then was eliminated in her afternoon match Thursday, falling 4 and 3 to Kwan-Chih Lu, who was to face defending champion Becky Lucidi in the third round today. Lucidi beat Ashley Rollins 5 and 3 in the first round and Avery Kiser 4 and 2 Thursday afternoon.
Martinez said she experienced a letdown after beating Wie.
"It's tough," Martinez said. "I made a big, big effort this morning. Then, I had 15 minutes to rest. It wasn't the same."
Wie started well this week, finishing second by two strokes to medalist Aree Song. But the player known for 300-yard drives and big galleries couldn't get past Martinez. The sophomore at Auburn was a semifinalist in this event last year and survived a playoff Wednesday just to reach the match-play field of 64.
Suffers penalty
Martinez won despite being penalized a hole for accepting a ride in a golf cart.
"I was very mad," Martinez said of the penalty. "But I just told myself that I had to start over again."
"That's experience," said Wie's golf coach, Gary Gilchrist. "A lot of these girls have played in these events before. She hasn't. She lost. She has to learn from it."
Martinez held a two-hole lead after the front nine, but was penalized a hole for accepting a ride in an electric cart from the clubhouse to the 10th tee.
Martinez, unnerved after learning of the penalty, bogeyed the 10th hole to fall into a tie, but then regrouped and made a 12-footer on 13 to save par and take a one-hole lead.
"She didn't take advantage," Gilchrist said of Wie. "She let the other girl believe she could win."
Wie evened the match with a birdie on the par-4 16th, but Martinez came right back to take the lead on 17. She blasted out of a sand trap to 4 feet and made the par putt -- after Wie had missed a short par putt -- to reclaim a one-hole lead.
Wie saved par by knocking in a 5-footer on 18. But Martinez claimed the victory -- and shocked the large gallery that followed the pair around all day -- by making a 3-foot par. Martinez hugged her father and caddie, Julio, after she made the putt.
Wie was left to sign a few autographs and face the media.
"Everything just didn't work," she said.
Struggles on green
Especially Wie's putting. While Martinez made long putts to stay in the match, Wie three-putted for a bogey on 7, took three putts to get down from the fringe on the par-5 8th and three-putted for a bogey on 9.
"I felt as if I hit it perfectly and read it perfectly, but it just didn't go in," Wie said.
Wie had a 2-under 140 in the 36-hole medal play, 13 strokes better than Martinez.
Song, who finished first in stroke play with a 4-under 138, beat Emily Bastel 4 and 3 in her first-round match and Laura Cross 4 and 3 in the second round. Cross had eliminated Song's sister, Naree, 5 and 4 in the first round.