Round 2 Notes – Target World Challenge
Here is how the five first-time players are faring in this event:Brett Wetterich 73-73—146 +2
Steve Stricker 72-69—141 -3
Rory Sabbatini 69-81—150 +6
Niclas Fasth 72-72—144 E
Zach Johnson 69-67—136 -8
There have been three second-round leaders/co-leaders who have gone on to win this event:
1999 Tom Lehman
2004 Tiger Woods
2006 Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods (69-62) is at 13-under par and leads by four shots over Jim Furyk (68-67) at the halfway mark. His four-shot margin is the largest 36-hole lead in tournament history, breaking the previous record of three strokes by Michael Campbell in 2005.
Tiger Woods’ 10-under-par 62 Friday is the lowest score in tournament’s history:
Tiger Woods 62, 2007, Round 2
Padraig Harrington 63, 2002, Round 1
Davis Love III 63, 2003, Round 3
Michael Campbell 63, 2005, Round 1
There were only two players who shot 10-under par scores on the PGA TOUR during the 2007 season. Rookie Brandt Snedeker shot an 11-under 61 in the opening round of the Buick Invitational and Zach Johnson shot a 10-under 60 in the third round of THE TOUR Championship.
Colin Montgomerie posted a 5-under-par 67 Friday after an opening-round 80. His 13-stroke turnaround marks the second-best improvement in tournament history. Thomas Bjorn carded scores of 80-64 in the second and third rounds back in 2001.
Rory Sabbatini’s 12-stroke decline (69-81) matches the largest decline in tournament history. K. J. Choi shot rounds of 65-77 in the third and fourth rounds in 2003.
Paul Casey has recovered nicely after a difficult start Thursday when he made a triple-bogey (par-5, 2nd) and a bogey (par-4, 4th) in his first four holes. Since then, Casey is 9-under, thanks to 13 total birdies and four bogeys. He rallied to finish at even-par 72 Thursday and then shot a 5-under 67 Friday. He is at 5-under 139 at the halfway point and in fifth place
Here are Tiger Woods’ best rounds in this event:
62 second round, 2007
64 second round, 2000
64 final round, 2001
65 first round, 1999 (5-under)
65 second round, 2002
65 final round, 2003
Tiger Woods is making his ninth start in this event and he has posted above-par scores in only three of 34 total rounds. Woods’ only above-par scores were a 4-over 76 in the final round in 1999, a third-round 74 in 2001 and a final-day 73 in 2005.
The lowest opening-36-hole scores in tournament history:
129 (65/64/15-under), Sergio Garcia, 2000
131 (67-64/13-under), Davis Love III, 2000
131 (69-62/13-under), Tiger Woods, 2007
Tiger Woods holds/shares the second-round lead for the fourth time in nine years of this event. Woods led by one after 36 in 2002, he shared the lead with Colin Montgomerie in 2004 and led by one last year.
Friday’s scoring average was 69.380 on the par-72 layout.
The easiest hole on the course each of the first two days has been the 522-yard, par-5, 11th hole. There were eight birdies and eight pars recorded on day one, for a scoring average of 4.500.
There were two eagles, 10 birdies and four pars recorded on day two, for a scoring average of 4.125.
Fred Couples (74-69—143) has been consistent on the par-5s during the first two days:
No. 2 par, par
No. 5 eagle, eagle
No. 11 par, par
No. 13 birdie, birdie
No. 16 bogey, bogey
There were no bogeys recorded Friday on four holes:
No. 6, par 4 3 birdies, 13 pars
No. 7, par 4 2 birdies, 14 pars
No. 11, par 5. 2 eagles, 10 birdies, 4 pars
No. 13, par 5 10 birdies, 6 pars
There has not been a single bogey recorded at the par-5, 11th hole during the first two days.
There were only two eagles recorded in the opening round and a total of six in round two. Both Fred Couples and Niclas Fasth made eagle-3s on the 534-yard, 5th hole on Thursday. Friday’s eagles were all on par-5s:
No. 2 Mark Calcavecchia
No. 5 Fred Couples
No. 5 Lee Westwood
No. 11 Rory Sabbatini
No. 11 Tiger Woods
No. 16 Vijay Singh
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