RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. -- Lorena Ochoa listened to her father's advice and tied an LPGA major championship record at 10-under 62 for the lead in the Kraft Nabisco Championship on Thursday.

Ochoa had only 100 or so people following her record round, which was fine with her. She was able to hear that familiar voice, her father urging her to attack the flags and stick it close.

"Just like this," Javier Ochoa said to her after Ochoa began the first round with a 9-iron to 2 feet fpr birdie. And she obeyed, knocking down flags on a calm morning in the desert, piling up birdies until she was in the record books and enjoying a four-shot lead over 16-year-old Michelle Wie.

Wie got all the attention and matched her best score on the LPGA Tour, a bogey-free 66 in which she played with poise and precision and had a birdie putt on every hole.

Ochoa gladly settled for a record score at Mission Hills.

"I thought to myself, 'This is a good start to the tournament.' I didn't think it was going to be this good," Ochoa said. "Everything was easy, and everything was so clear. It was fun to be out there."

It was simply stunning to everyone else.

Defending champion Annika Sorenstam glanced at the leaderboard when she was playing the sixth hole, saw the "10" next to Ochoa's name, and couldn't believe it.

"We had to look twice. We didn't know if she was on her 10th hole or she was 10 under," Sorenstam said after making birdie on the last hole for a 71. "This golf course is not easy. She made it look easy."

Ochoa finished her round with a sand wedge into 12 feet -- only one of her 10 birdies was longer -- and broke the tournament record by one shot, set in 1997 by Mary Beth Zimmerman. The only other 62 in an LPGA major was by Minea Blomqvist in the 2004 Women's British Open at Sunningdale. It was so good that Ochoa's score was more than 11 shots better than the course average.

Stacy Prammanasudh holed out from the fairway for eagle on the ninth hole and was 6 under through 10, but made pars the rest of the way until a tee shot in the water on the 18th led to bogey. She wound up with a 67. Angela Park, a 17-under-old amateur who plans to turn pro on Monday, was at 68.

Paula Creamer overcame a slow start with a long birdie on the 17th hole and joined the group at 69 that included Juli Inkster, Morgan Pressel and Karen Stupples. Given the tough conditions, the 19-year-old Creamer felt good about her start. She just didn't know it would leave her seven shots out of the lead.

"You can't look at the scoreboard after that," Creamer said of seeing Ochoa at 10 under. "You can't dwell on being seven back. We still have a lot of golf left, and the course is only going to get harder."

Pressel overcame a double bogey on the 18th hole, hitting into the water off the tee, dribbling it into the water out of a fairway bunker and having to make an 8-foot putt to limit the damage.

"I screwed up in the middle," said Pressel, who started on No. 10. "That's a birdie hole, so I feel like I gave three shots away."

Ochoa is wildly popular in her native Mexico, and had 50 or so Mexican fans in her gallery.

"It's nice to come here and be one more player," she said. "If you do good, the attention is there."

The attention followed Wie for 18 holes on a warm, sunny day in the Coachella Valley, especially because the Hawaii sensation was paired with Japanese star Ai Miyazato (70).

Wie was playing tournament golf for the first time in five weeks and didn't miss a beat.

She closed with a 66 at the Fields Open in Hawaii to miss a playoff by one shot in February. Starting with a big tee shot that set up a two-putt birdie on her second hole, Wie was in control of her game. She missed only three fairways, and twice escaped trouble from the trees with shots she pictured in her mind and pulled off to near perfection.

"I usually have trouble starting out," Wie said. "My game was solid today."

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