SILVIS, Ill. – Michelle Wie is heading the wrong way in her bid to make history. Again.

Trying for a fifth time to become the first woman since 1945 to make a cut in a PGA Tour event, the 16-year-old instead found trouble everywhere she turned Thursday in the first round of the John Deere Classic.

Off the tee. On the green. In the sand. In the water. In the weeds. And in the woods – several times.

With a 6-over 77, Wie was 13 strokes off the lead and headed for another early trip home. The low 70 and ties will make the cut after the second round Friday and, with half of the field still on the course on a steamy afternoon, 74 players were at 1 under or better.

J.P. Hayes, John Senden and local favorite Zach Johnson were tied for the early lead at 7-under 64. Defending champion Sean O’Hair, Jason Gore and Camilo Villegas were among those with afternoon tee times.

This is Wie’s fifth visit to the PGA Tour, where she is trying to become the first woman since Babe Zaharias in 1945 to make the cut. And if ever there was a time the teen phenom was going to do it, this appeared to be it.

She missed the cut at last year’s Deere Classic by a measly two strokes, blowing her chance at history with two bad holes late in the second round.

A year older and wiser, she came to the Tournament Players Club at Deere Run playing perhaps the best golf of her career. In the first three LPGA Tour majors, she’s finished a combined five shots out of the lead.

She’d already made the cut at one men’s event, too, finishing 12 shots off the lead in the Asian Tour’s SK Telecom Open.

But Wie got off to a rough start Thursday and could never get herself back on track. She took three drops in her first five holes, hit seven of 14 fairways and made six of 18 greens, only one in her first nine holes.

Heavy fog pushed the start of the first round back by 2 hours and 10 minutes, and about 2,000 fans were lining the 10th hole – her first – by the time Wie and her partners arrived. She was greeted with loud applause, and she responded with an easy smile and wave.

Things began falling apart on the 11th tee, where a bug hovered as she addressed her ball. Wie is allergic to bees, and she backed away from the ball three times, throwing her head back in frustration the final time.

When she finally did tee off, she pushed her shot so far right it was lost in a thicket of trees and she was forced to take a drop. She had a 20-foot uphill putt for bogey on the par-4, but it stopped right at the edge of the cup and she was forced to take a double-bogey.

Next up was the par-3 12th, another easy birdie hole. But once again, her tee shot sailed to the right, prompting Wie to yell, “Oh, no! You’ve got to be kidding me!” and pull her baseball cap over her eyes.

Too late. That ball disappeared into trees, too, forcing her to take another drop from about 90 yards out. But she saved a bogey, running that shot 4 feet past the hole and making the putt.

She rebounded with a 12-footer for birdie on 13, and smiled when 16-year-old Spencer Conlin yelled, “Michelle, you’re my hero!” as she walked off the green.

“Dude, look at her,” Conlin said. “She’s out here playing with men in a PGA tournament. And she’s half the age of them.”

But her recovery was short-lived.

Another bad drive on 14 landed in deep weeds, and she had to take another drop, her third.

Wie actually had a chance to make up ground on her back nine. One birdie putt hit the edge of the cup and banged out. Another rolled 3 feet by and she left yet another 4 feet short.

But she found more trouble on her second-to-last hole, landing in not one, but two bunkers.