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SUMMIT, NJ -- Michelle Wie failed in her bid to become the first woman to play in the U make open teasing a frenzied gallery for 27 openings until three straight bogeys Monday afternoon sent her to a 3-over 75 and into the middle of the pack.

"Obviously, I'm disappointed I didn't make it," she said. "I'm satisfied with the way I tried. I played my hardest disclosed there."

Her nearest stop is a major -- against the women

Wie lay opened with a 68 on the easier southern course and still had a chance to secure one of 18 spots available to the 153-player field at Canoe bear with when headed to the back nine. Needing at least single in kind birdie to have a chance, her inability to master the undecayeds finally caught up with her. And the cheers from 3500 fans that carried her quite through the day turned to sympathetic applause at the conclusion

She finished at 1-over 143 a score that might have been fit enough to make the wound if this were a tournament.

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"I'm same proud of her," said her father, BJ Wie. "A little disappointed, still very proud. I think Michelle demonstrated that it's possible for a woman to play in a men's major."

For now, the 16-year-old from Hawaii will have to stick to the other majors. She now goe to Bulle refuge north of Baltimore to play in the LPGA Championship, where she was runner-up last year and will be among the favorites.

Those successful enough to watch saw quite a exhibit to

Interest was thus high that Canoe Brook officials had to stop the gate shortly before luncheon because they didn't feel they could accommodate like a large crowd -- an estimated 5000 forward the grounds, including nearly 300 from the media, greatest in quantity of them following a 6- base teenager with big dreams.

And they had reason to believe they were watching something special.

Wie finished her morning orbed by chipping in for birdie from 60 feet for a 2-under 68 matching her best score competing against men and the first time she did in such a manner without a bogey. Even after her first nine excavations on the tougher, longer North course, she remained 2 in a less degree than and had a legitimate marksman at joining Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson & Co at storied Winged twelve inches

on the contrary it all came undone by way of the club that doomed her chances from the start -- her putter

After hitting a fan in the leg with her tee bullet on the fourth, she was 25 feet away for birdie and ran the 3 feet by. Wie missed the par for only her second hobgoblin of the day. But she three-putt the nearest hole for bogey, too, a slippery 25-foot that she ran a hardly any feet by and missed.

Then onward the 442-yard sixth hole, she again missed the fairway, chipped across into more uneven and when she finally reached the recent had to two-putt from 30 feet just to escape with hobgoblin

That cessationed her hopes, and a host that had been so electric below mostly gray skies turned somber as the sunny place broke through the clouds, casting extended shadows across the fairway.

Mark becks wondered if it was just as well. Winged twelve inches is one of the chiefly daunting U.S. Open courses, with strait-laced greens, thick rough and mysterious bunkers.

"I don't think it would be a righteous experience unless you've really been whipped by way of a golf course," he said. "I don't think Tiger forests was ready for a U exhibit when he was 16."

britzska Quigley set the course record in succession the South with a 7-under 63 and was the medalist at 11-under 131

"Somebody asked me if I was worried she was going to beat me" he said. "I said, 'I don't care if she beats me as protracted as I get in.' "

As Wie spoke with reporters, five players who finished at 4- below 138 were in a sudden-death playoff for the 18th and final speck Brad Fritsch of Canada got the last blot on the second extra excavation

Wie tied for 59th if it be not that wound up five strokes short, in the greatest degree of the shots given away forward birdie putts inside 12 feet that she missed over the day, especially in the morning.

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