Wie made the cut with two strokes to spare Friday in the Fields Open, following her opening 3-under 69 with a 73 that left her 10 strokes behind leader Jeong Jang with one round left.
"I just need right now positive thoughts and positive rounds just to put into my memory bank and move on forward from that," Wie said. "I feel like I just need to stay present, be positive with myself."
After finishing the round, she told her caddie that she couldn't believe her score because she felt as though she played "a lot better."
"The score did not show how well I played," Wie said.
The 18-year-old Wie scrambled for three birdies and four bogeys, but wasn't as sharp as her opening round Thursday when she broke 70 for the first time since the Evian Ladies Masters in July 2006.
Wie didn't see it that way.
"I definitely feel like I played more solidly than I did yesterday," she said. "Obviously the score was little bit higher, but I felt like my long game is a lot more solid than yesterday."
Wie qualified for the weekend for the first time since last year's Evian, where she closed with rounds of 84 and 76 to tie for 69th.
"I feel like I'm a little rusty from tournament golf. I felt with the two really solid rounds under my belt, I just feel like I'm getting better and better," she said. "It's going to get better."
Maybe because it couldn't get much worse.
She injured both wrists last year but kept playing, and struggling. She made only two cuts in 2007 and finished 19th in a 20-player field at the Samsung World Championship in October, her final event of the year. In eight starts against women, she withdrew twice and only broke par twice in 19 rounds.
"I've been practicing a lot, so I think it's showing," she said. "Everything is coming back together
- the long game, the short game, the putting - It's all just coming back."
She got off to a good start Friday, swirling in a 35-foot birdie putt on No. 2 and making a putt that was just as long for a remarkable par save on the par-5 fifth. After hitting the cart path with her drive, her approach from 70 yards flew over the green, sending a few spectators running for cover. She pitched to the top tier of the leveled green and made the tough, downhill putt that drew a roar from the crowd.
"It was one of those shots where I thought positively and I felt really, really confident with it," she said. "I was telling myself,
'Just putt it,' and it just went it."
Wie holed an 8-footer for birdie on the next hole to reach 4 under but lost a stroke by pulling a 6-foot par putt on the par-3 eighth.
She avoided disaster on the par-5 14th after yanking her tee shot to the left through the row of palm trees and nearly in the street. The ball came to a stop between the grass and the curb.
With no relief and the traffic stopped, Wie looked down at the ominous shot with thoughts of her wrists running through her head. She calmly hit it to the front of the green and nearly escaped with a par but settled for bogey.
Playing in front of a large gallery on her home island of Oahu, Wie is starting the season against the women for the first time in five years. She previously opened at the PGA Tour's Sony Open where she nearly made the cut as a 14-year-old. She wasn't invited to Waialae this year.
