Ai Miyazato and Azahara Munoz came to a scorching halt at the top of the LPGA Lotte Championship leaderboard Thursday.

Birdies on the final two holes at Ko Olina Golf Club helped Munoz, the first Spaniard to earn Rookie of the Year honors, shoot an 8-under-par 64 and catch Miyazato at 8-under 136. They share first at the halfway point of this inaugural, incredibly windy, tournament.

Miyazato finished bogey-bogey to back off Wednesday, but was bogey-free in a second-round 65. The 26-year-old from Okinawa did not miss a fairway. She barely missed a putt.

“I played good yesterday, too, but towards the end I couldn’t make some putts,” Miyazato said. “That’s why I lost the scores and didn’t finish really strong.

“But then I said to myself, you know, it was really windy so that was good. So I felt really good about my game this morning. That’s why I played well. … If you have a good self talk then it’s going to work.”

Michelle Wie has been talking to herself the past few months. While everything off the course has been brilliant — she finished her last class at Stanford last month and graduates in June — the world’s 24th-ranked female golfer is suddenly flunking golf.

Wie (76—154) finally made some putts Thursday, but also made quadruple-bogey and missed her third straight cut — by a bunch.

It had been five years since she last missed three in a row. The only other time it happened was 10 years ago, in the first three LPGA tournaments of her life — at age 12.

Ayaka Kaneko (72—146) was the only one of the four Hawaii players to make the cut and is 10 shots back. She tees off at 9:08 this morning on the 10th tee.

The Sacred Hearts grad, in her first full-time LPGA season, has made her past three cuts. This one, at home, is the most gratifying.

“I’m just being patient, trying not to do anything stupid,” said Kaneko, 22. “Trying not do to anything crazy.

“This is great. All my friends are coming to see me and I really want to do this for them. This is special.”

Qualifier Shayna Miyajima, a Baldwin graduate, fired a 73, with double bogey on the 18th, and missed the cut by four.

LPGA rookie Stephanie Kono (78—157) continued to struggle. Her scoring average in four starts this season is 78.75.

That frustration was shared by many. With the wind constantly blowing at some 20 mph, the cut came at 3-over 147. Only 33 players are under par going into today’s third round.

All that makes what Munoz and Miyazato are doing more impressive. Still, Thursday’s scores were clearly lower.

Beth Bader, who shot 77 Thursday, was the first-round leader at 67. Seven golfers beat that in the second round. All played in the morning, with the exception of South Korea’s Jimin Kang and American Paula Creamer.

Kang shot 66 in the afternoon to share third with Cristie Kerr (68), two shots off the lead. Creamer (67) pulled into a tie for eighth, a shot behind Meena Lee, Suzann Petterson and Brittany Lang.

Lee, who won here in 2006, and Colombia’s Mariajo Uribe matched Miyazato’s 65. Sweden’s Pernilla Lindberg shot 66, despite taking double bogey on the 18th.

Munoz and Miyazato played together the first two days, with Brittany Lincicome. The threesome is a combined 19 under and apparently underwhelmed by Hawaii’s tenacious tradewinds.

“The good thing about this wind is at least it’s consistent,” said Munoz, an Arizona State graduate who has not won yet on the tour. “When it’s gusting it’s really difficult to judge. But I don’t feel that the wind really bothers me, especially after yesterday (Wednesday), because yesterday was super strong.”

It particularly did not bother her on the sixth, which she eagled from 102 yards out. Munoz hit it to kick-in range on two other holes.

Her only bogey came when she missed a 2-footer at No. 2. Munoz’s newfound calm in her third year nullified that damage.

“Normally I would have gone crazy …,” Munoz said. “Lately I’ve been trying to enjoy it a little more. I used to get so frustrated on the golf course. Every time I missed a shot I was so (irritated). Now I’m trying to let it go.”

Miyazato is as amiable and serene as they come. She was No. 1 in the world for 11 weeks in 2010, when she won five times.

She has won just once since, but is still ranked eighth because she is constantly in contention. And, the short one’s — Miyazato might be 5 feet tall — short game is phenomenal.

She insists she can’t duck Ko Olina’s wind, but she also doesn’t fight it.

“I grew up in kind of a windy place,” Miyazato said, “so when it gets windy it makes me think of my hometown. It’s pretty comfortable for me.”