Stanford St. Jude Championship: Second-round notes  PGA TOUR staff • Second-Round play was suspended from 11:57 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. due to thunderstorms in the area. Afternoon tee times were delayed by three hours.  Bob Tway was one of only two players who finished without a bogey on Friday. (Badz/PGA TOUR/WireImage)
• Play was called for the day at 8:13 due to darkness. Second-round play will resume at 7:30 a.m. Saturday. There are 26 players who have yet to complete there second round. Tee times for the third round will run from approximately 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Play will be off the 1st and 10th tees in threesomes. • At the completion of the second round Saturday morning, the field will be cut to the low 70 players and ties. There are currently 70 players at (+4) or better. • Adam Scott is the clubhouse leader at 7-under-par 133 after a second-round 4-under-par 66. If his lead holds up it will be the second consecutive week the 26-year-old Australian has held the 36-hole lead. Scott had a one-stroke lead over Rod Pampling at the halfway point last week at the Memorial Tournament presented by Morgan Stanley. • An interesting note should Scott go on to win this week in Memphis, he also won the Shell Houston Open earlier this year the week before The Masters. • Adam Scott (66) and Bob Tway (68) had the only two bogey-free rounds on Friday. • Brian Gay fired a second-round 4-under-par 66 and is currently T2 at six-under-par 134. Gay was on the 18th green facing a 45-foot 1-inch birdie putt when play was delayed. Following the three-hour and three-minute rain delay, Gay promptly holed the putt for his sixth birdie of the round. • Marco Dawson made the biggest move on Friday firing a 5-under-par 65, the low round of the tournament among those who have completed play, and moved up 92 spots from a T123 to T31. • Of those still on the golf course, rookie Andrew Buckle is 6-under-par for the day and for the tournament, currently T2. • Dicky Pride is the only player to win the Stanford St. Jude Championship in his rookie year. There are currently two rookies in the top 10, Andrew Buckle (T2) and Brandt Snedeker (T5). Both players are looking for their first PGA TOUR victory. • 1995 Stanford St. Jude Champion Jim Gallagher, Jr. (74-69-143) will make the cut for just the second time in the 12 years since his victory. He finished T63 in 2002. • Defending champion Jeff Maggert notched rounds of 73-79-152 (+12). If he goes on to miss the cut he will be the first defending champion to miss the cut since Jim Gallagher, Jr. in 1996. • Of the 75 players in the morning draw who finished their rounds, there were 13 sub-par scores. In Thursday's first round there were only seven sub-par rounds posted all day. Adam Scott's 66 was the only bogey-free round posted in the Friday morning wave. • Winning this week may not bode well for players heading to Oakmont next week for the U.S. Open. No player has won the week prior to the U.S. Open and followed it up with a victory in the second major of the year. • When play was called for the day, the scoring average on the par-70 layout was 71.414. The toughest hole was par-4 17th playing .360 strokes over par. The easiest hole was the par-5 16th playing .447 strokes under par. • Eight eagles had been made in the second round when play was called for the day. Stephen Ames, Billy Andrade and Bubba Watson all eagled the 554-yard par 5 3rd while Tim Petrovic, John Mallinger, Matthew Goggin and Chris Tidland eagled the 530-yard par 5 16th. • Brent Geiberger (76), Tripp Isenhour (81) and Tom Johnson (82) all withdrew prior to the start of the second round. • Mark Calcavecchia (77) withdrew after nine holes with a bad back. • Chris Couch (79) withdrew after 17 holes with a bad back. |
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