The Change Mariner

Next Generation Teens (Wie and Song) On the Women's Tour

Honolulu Advertiser: At the wise old age of 14, Michelle Wie appears to be in the process of mastering the most difficult element of golf. It has nothing to do with devastating drives and precise putts. It has everything to do with learning how to make lemonade when your game gives you lemons.

Wie did it in front of the PGA Tour and the world in January, when she whacked the ball all over Waialae Country Club and still made history by becoming the first woman to break par (2-under 68) in a men's tour event.

She did it again yesterday in the LPGA's first major of the year. The Punahou freshman went more than an hour without hitting a fairway off the tee and still shot 3-under 69. She is tied for seventh going into today's second round of the Kraft Nabisco Championship at the Dinah Shore Tournament Course in Mission Hills Country Club.

Aree Song, the youngest member of the LPGA at 17, leads after opening with a 66. Of her six birdie putts, only one was more than six feet. Song is playing in her fifth Kraft Nabisco. In her first appearance, as 13-year-old amateur Aree Wongluekiet in 2000, she tied for 10th.