CRANS-SUR-SIERRE, Switzerland — Michelle Wie hooked her tee shots, played erratically out of bunkers and unraveled on the par-3s.

There was one consistent element, though: She is facing another missed cut playing against men.

Wie shot a 7-over-par 78 yesterday in the first round of the European Masters. It was Wie's 10th tournament against men — where she has made the cut only once — and her first on the European tour.

"The par-3s ate me alive today," the 16-year-old Punahou School junior from Hawai'i said. "I didn't have any feel for the game."

Wie was tied for 146th on the Alpine layout, with only five players shooting a poorer score.

"It sure didn't go the way I wanted it to," she said. "I think it was very difficult for me after taking time off, go home, start school and come back and play a tournament. It was very difficult for me to do that. But I grinded out there. I tried my hardest right to the end."

Wie was 12 shots behind leaders Anthony Wall, Robert Coles and David Carter, who shot 66. Defending champion Sergio Garcia, who has a summer home near the course, shot a 68 to contend in a relatively weak field.

Wie made her only cut against men this year in South Korea, finishing 12 shots off the lead. She withdrew from the John Deere Classic in July because of heat exhaustion.

Laura Davies is the only other woman to play on the European tour, finishing next to last in the 2004 ANZ Championship in Sydney.

Wie's worst round in a men's tournament came this year in the Sony Open in Hawai'i, where she opened with a 9-over 79. She had a 68 in the second round but still missed the cut.

"I didn't really have my rhythm today in my short game," Wie said. "Hopefully it will come back to me tomorrow."

Wie did manage to beat one of her playing partners, England's Nick Dougherty (79). Her other partner, Spain's Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, had a 70.

"My mother could have beaten me today," Dougherty said. "Michelle should be happy about it, but I don't think my mum would have been very happy about it."

Dougherty has missed his last nine cuts.

"I shouldn't be here," he added. "I'm playing awful."

Wie had a double bogey, seven bogeys and two birdies. She parred the first of the par-3s, then dropped five strokes at the other four, including a double bogey at the 176-yard No. 8. That came after her first birdie of the day on a 28-foot downhill putt at No. 7.

Her only other birdie was at the par-5 15th, where she hit her third shot to 6 feet and holed it.