Round 2 Notes – AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
Second-Round Notes – Friday, February 8, 2008Tim Herron carded a second-round 69 on Friday and will now take a one-shot lead into Saturday’s third round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
Herron’s 7-under 137 total is the highest 36-hole total for the leader at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am since Jim Furyk was at 137 in 2003. Furyk finished T5, five behind champion Davis Love III.
Herron’s play through 36 holes should catch no one by surprise as the four-time PGA TOUR winner has made 11 of 11 cuts at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am (including 1996, when the event was called after 36 holes), including a T3 effort in 2003.
This is the 10th time in Herron’s PGA TOUR career in which he has been a leader/co-leader through 36 holes. The last came at the 2006 PGA Championship, where he was in a four-way tie for the lead at the halfway point before finishing T14.
The winner of the last four AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Ams has found himself no worse than T2 through 36 holes:
Year Champion 36-Hole Standing Score
2007 Phil Mickelson T1 with Furyk 65-67-70-66—268
2006 Arron Oberholser 2nd behind Weir 65-68-66-72—271
2005 Phil Mickelson Leader 62-67-67-73—269
2004 Vijay Singh T2 behind Donald 67-68-68-69—272
First-round leader Kent Jones carded a second-round 74 on Friday and fell from first to T12 on the leaderboard. In fact, no players in the top four after Thursday wound up in the top 10 after Friday: Jones (T12), John Mallinger (T22), Roland Thatcher (T12), and Brad Adamonis (T64).
Through 36 holes this week, there are only seven players in the top 22 with at least one PGA TOUR title: Tim Herron (4), J.B. Holmes (2), Mark Wilson (1), Dudley Hart (2), Vijay Singh (31), Steve Lowery (2), and Jim McGovern (1).
The AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am has not been historically kind to players seeking their first PGA TOUR title. Only five players since 1970 (and two since 1993) have made the AT&T their first win on the PGA TOUR: John Cook (1981), Steve Jones (1988), Brett Ogle (1993), Matt Gogel (2002) and Arron Oberholser (2006).
Sponsor’s exemption Robert Floyd has put together rounds of 68-70—138 and now finds himself T2 through 36 holes. The last sponsor’s exemption to win on the PGA TOUR was Jason Gore at the 2005 84 LUMBER Classic.
Floyd is competing in his 20th career PGA TOUR event this week and second straight AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Of those 19 starts, his only made cut came as an amateur at the 1997 Doral-Ryder Open, where he finished T40.
Floyd paired with Dudley Hart as an amateur to win the pro-am competition at the 1994 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Hart is one-shot behind his former amateur partner this week after rounds of 69-70—139.
Hart is playing on a Major Medical Extension in 2008 and has 15 events to earn $485,931, which would combine with his 2007 earnings ($299,249) to equal No. 125 on the 2007 money list ($785,180). Hart was limited to 12 starts on the PGA TOUR last year after his wife Suzanne was diagnosed with a non-smoking related tumor in her lungs in May and subsequently had two-thirds of one of her lungs removed.
J.B. Holmes, who won last week’s FBR Open for his second PGA TOUR title, is T2 through 36 holes and is in position to possibly win the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and the FBR Open in the same year, which is exactly what Phil Mickelson pulled off in 2005.
Four past champions of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am are competing this week: Vijay Singh (2004), Davis Love III (2001 and 2003), Phil Mickelson (1998, 2005, 2007) and Peter Jacobsen (1995).
Past Champions Leaderboard through 36 holes:
- Davis Love III (2001, 2003) 70-71—141 PB
- Vijay Singh (2004) 70-70—140 PH
- Phil Mickelson (1998, 2005, 2007) 71-72—143 SH
- Peter Jacobsen (1995) 73-75—148 SH
Rounds of the day:
Pebble Beach G.L. Poppy Hills G.C. Spyglass Hill G.C.
65 – Ryan Palmer 66 – Tim Petrovic 68 – Dustin Johnson
67 – Fredrik Jacobson 68 – Chris Riley 69 – Matt Kuchar
68 – Peter Tomasulo 69 – Joe Ogilvie
69 – Dicky Pride
There were zero bogey-free rounds recorded on Friday over all three courses.
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