I poached a news release off of Reuter’s as I noticed one of my blogs made it to a golf blogsite with this on it so I figured why not:Michelle Wie’s  hopes of making the cutoff for the Reno-Tahoe Legends PGA Open evaporated when she battled to an eight-over-par 80 in Friday’s second round at Montreux Golf & Country Club in Reno, Nevada. id=”midArticle_byline”>Battling to become the first woman to make the cut in a PGA Tour event in over sixty years, the American teenager bogeyed two of her first six holes and ran up a quintuple-bogey nine at the eighth before posting a nine-over total of 153.Meanwhile fellow Honolulu native Parker McLachlin raced to the top of the leaderboard with a course record-equalling 62, Wie had to settle for her eighth missed cut in eight attempts on the PGA Tour.Wie had faced an uphill task at the start of the day after an opening 73 left her eight strokes behind pacesetting American Jeff Overton and her unlikely try for glory was left in tatters as she covered her back nine in seven-over 43.Although half the golfers were still out on the course, the second-round cut was projected to fall at even-par 144.She had been aiming to follow in the footsteps of fellow American Babe Zaharias, who made the cut at the Phoenix Open and Tucson Open on the 1945 PGA Tour.The 18-year-old female, once one of the most trumpeted players in the game, is playing on a sponsor’s exemption in Reno Nevadas Montreux Golf Course.McLachlin birdied seven of the last 11 holes for a flawless 62 and a 36-hole tally of 14-under 130.He matched the course record set by compatriot Bill Glasson in 2005 to finish four strokes in front of American John Merrick (67).  

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