updated 3:18 p.m. ET Nov. 25, 2005

KOCHI, Japan - Distraught over poor play on the final two holes, Michelle Wie missed the cut by one stroke at the Casio World Open on Friday and promised to learn from her mistakes and keep playing in men’s tournaments.

She bogeyed the final two holes for a 3-over 75, leaving her with a two-round total of 4-over 148 in the Japanese tour event.

With a par on No. 18 Wie could have made the cut.

“I was a bit nervous walking up the 18th fairway,” she said. “I was just trying to play a good hole and make par, but it didn’t work out that way.”

The meltdown was reminiscent of the 16-year-old Hawaiian’s finish at the John Deere Classic in July when she bogeyed two of her last four holes and missed the cut by two strokes.

No woman has made a PGA Tour cut since Babe Didrikson Zaharias in 1945. No one even tried again until Annika Sorenstam at the 2003 Colonial, and only Suzy Whaley and Wie have played PGA Tour events since. Wie missed the cut by seven strokes at the Sony Open in January.

The Casio was Wie’s first tournament since she was disqualified in her pro debut last month. She is only the second woman to play in a Japanese men’s event — Sophie Gustafson missed the cut in the 2003 Casio tournament.

Wie was making her sixth start in a men’s pro tournament. She failed to make the cut in three PGA Tour starts, a Nationwide Tour event and a Canadian Tour event.

“Hopefully, I can learn from the mistakes I made here and come back here,” Wie said.

Wie wasn’t about to read too much into these two rounds.

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“I don’t know if it proves anything that I didn’t make the cut,” she said. “It shows that it’s possible and hopefully next time I can do it.”

Wie won’t have to wait long — she will play in the PGA’s Sony Open in Hawaii in January.

“I really realized here that I need to work on a few things before the Sony Open,” she said. “I’ve got to work on my irons and my putting.”

Things were looking good for her when she drained a 12-foot birdie putt on the par-5 10th at the Kochi Kuroshio Country Club course to go 2 over. The two closing bogeys, however, proved her undoing.

“I’m very disappointed,” Wie said. “I played as well as I could. I tried my best today, but things just didn’t work out and it wasn’t meant to be.”

Wie, who had three birdies and six bogeys, thanked the Japanese fans for their support during a greenside interview after the 18th hole but was distressed by her play.

“I made a couple of bad mistakes,” Wie said. “That shouldn’t have happened.”

The top 60 players in the $1.7 million event made the cut, which was 3-over 147. Four players, including first-round co-leader Toshimitsu Izawa, were tied for the lead at 138. Wie was tied with 11 others for 68th place.

Her game started to sour on the par-4 17th. After hitting the fairway with her tee shot, Wie’s approach landed in the greenside rough. She chipped onto the green and missed a 5-foot par putt.

A backlog of players forced her to wait 20 minutes before playing the par-5 18th. She drove into the right rough and hit out onto the fairway. Her approach landed in the short rough on the edge of the green. After chipping on, she missed a 6-foot par putt.

“I hit the putt the way I wanted to,” Wie said. “It just didn’t break the way I thought it would.”

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