GOLF Wie has a first for her career

She made the cut in a men's professional tournament in South Korea.
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INCHEON, South Korea -- Michelle Wie accomplished something in her ancestral homeland that she had failed to do in seven previous tries elsewhere: The American teen made the cut in a men's professional tournament.
With huge crowds cheering for the player they cherish as "big sister," the 16-year-old Wie was at 5-under 139 after two rounds, tied for 17th in the Asian Tour's SK Telecom Open. She shot a 3-under 69 Friday to make the cut by five strokes.
The SK Telecom Open is the eighth men's professional event for Wie. She has played in four PGA Tour events and has competed on the Japan, Nationwide and Canadian tours. No woman has made the cut on the PGA Tour since Babe Zaharias at the 1945 Tucson Open.
Galleries of at least 1,000 people gathered around each hole she played, and police controlled traffic clogging an expressway that passes along the Sky 72 Golf Club course as onlookers cheered her bunker shot over a bluff on the 16th.
The Hawaiian-born teenager became the second woman to make the cut at a men's tournament in South Korea. LPGA Tour star Se Ri Pak tied for 10th in the lower-tier KPGA Tour SBS Pro-Golf Championship in 2003.
Wie improved on her opening 70 with a nearly flawless round Friday, making four birdies and one bogey -- on the 16th hole. Midway through the tournament, she was six strokes behind leaders Iain Steel of Malaysia (66) and Prom Meesawat of Thailand (64).
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