SILVIS, Ill. — She hit bushes and trees, water and weeds. Michelle Wie hit them wide right and left, long and short, everywhere but the fairway.

She let out an "argh!" as a tee shot sailed off to the right, into the trees. And she put her right hand over her mouth as another floated wide right, this time landing on a hill.

This was Michelle Wie?

"No, it was just my evil twin sister playing," she said.

The Wie who showed up Thursday for the first round of the John Deere Classic bore little resemblance to the one who was 1 under after the first round last year.

Trying for a fifth time to become the first woman since 1945 to make a cut in a PGA Tour event, the 16-year-old shot 6-over 77 and was in a three-way tie for 149th place, 13 strokes off the lead. Only Bob May and Mike Springer trailed her.

J.P. Hayes, John Senden, Daniel Chopra and local favorite Zach Johnson were tied for the lead at 7-under 64, one stroke ahead of Joe Ogilvie and Kris Cox. Defending champion Sean O'Hair was 2 under.

"I didn't make the cut shooting 1 under on the first (day), so maybe shooting 6 over might do it," Wie said, referring to last year's opening round.

Wie is trying to become the first woman since Babe Zaharias in 1945 to make the cut. And if ever there was a time the teen phenom was going to do it, this appeared to be it.

She missed the cut at last year's Deere Classic by two strokes, blowing her chance at history with two bad holes late in the second round. A year older and wiser, she arrived playing the best golf of he career. In the first three LPGA Tour majors, she's finished a combined five shots out of the lead.

She'd already made the cut at one men's event, too, finishing 12 shots off the lead in the Asian Tour's SK Telecom Open.

But Wie got off to a rough start Thursday and never quite got back on track. She hit seven of 14 fairways and six of 18 greens in regulation, only one in the first nine. She took four drops, three in the first five holes.

Heavy fog delayed the start of the first round by 2 hours, 10 minutes, and Wie passed the time reading and sleeping at the home where she's staying.

"It was nice," she said.

Her first few holes were anything but.

Wie started on the 10th tee, where about 2,000 fans greeted her with loud applause, and she ran into trouble on the 11th, when bugs hovered as she addressed her ball. She stepped back five times, throwing her head back in frustration the final time.

She pushed her tee shot so far right it was lost in a thicket of trees and she had to take a drop. She wound up with a double-bogey after her 20-foot uphill putt stopped at the edge of the cup.

Next up was the par-3 12th, another easy birdie hole. But once again, her tee shot sailed to the right, prompting Wie to yell, "Oh, no! You've got to be kidding me!"

Nope. That ball disappeared into trees, too, forcing her to take another drop from about 90 yards out. But she saved a bogey, running that shot 4 feet past the hole and making the putt.

She rebounded with a 12-footer for birdie on 13.

But her recovery was short-lived. Another bad drive on 14 landed in deep weeds up on a hill, and she had to take another drop, her third.

Wie finally got a break on the par-3 16th, chipping in from a valley about 20 yards behind and to the right of the pin. The crowd whooped and cheered, and a relieved-looking Wie exchanged a fist bump with her caddie.

Otherwise, they had little to celebrate.