Southern Pines, N.C. ? Alexis Thompson made it to the weekend at the U.S. Women’s Open, but not exactly in the way she wanted to.

The 12-year-old Thompson – the youngest player in history to qualify for the Open – had a round cut short because of severe weather for the second straight day Friday at 12-over 134 through 31 holes.

Once second-round play resumes today, the soon-to-be seventh grader probably will conclude her history-making summer vacation to Pine Needles by missing the cut.

“Knowing that I’m not making the cut, like you’re going to be here Saturday and you made the cut, but it’s (still) pretty cool, being here another day,” Thompson said.

Still, Thompson – who before this week had never even attended, much less played in, an LPGA-level tournament – realized a lifelong dream by qualifying for the Women’s Open, meeting Annika Sorenstam and supplanting Morgan Pressel as the youngest golfer to play her way onto her sport’s grandest stage.

“It’s been great, and she’s had a lot of fun, too,” said her father, Scott Thompson, who also is her caddie.

Her second round was suspended while she was in the 14th fairway, 200 yards from the pin. That’s where things will pick up again at 6:30 a.m. today.

“We’ll come out and battle our 41â2 holes and finish up, and see what happens from there,” Scott Thompson said.

She closed her first trip around the track by chipping in for birdie from 40 yards on the par-4 ninth – her second birdie of the round – to finish with a 5-over 76 that was one stroke better than Pressel’s 77 when she was a 13-year-old debutante in 2001.

Things got much tougher later on for the preteen from Coral Springs, Fla. – perhaps because she started feeling the effects of trouble sleeping the night before.

“I don’t know why I couldn’t sleep, but once I was woken up, I’m like, ‘OK, let’s go,'” she said. “I’m sick and tired of being in this bed rolling over.”