U.S. Bank Championship: Round 2 Notebook  PGA TOUR STaff • A total of 71 players made the 36-hole cut, which came at even-par 140. The 71 players is the fewest to make the cut here in Milwaukee since 1998, when 70 advanced to the weekend.
•Joe Ogilvie shot a bogey-free, 7-under-par 63 in the afternoon to move to the top of the leaderboard at 10-under 130. Ogilvie's 63 is his lowest score since a 63 in the third round of the 2006 Buick Championship. •Joe Ogilvie leads by two shots over Jeff Maggert heading into the weekend. Ogilvie has held/shared a 36-hole lead three times previously in his PGA TOUR career: - 2001 Canon Greater Hartford Open tied with 7 others finished T17
-- He has 11 birdies and one bogey (his 3rd hole in the first round).  Kenny Perry • Kenny Perry extended his 2007 consecutive rounds at par-or-better streak to 12 with his 5-under-par 65. Perry is at 6-under 134 for the first 36 holes. In his last four starts on the PGA TOUR he has a scoring average of 68.5 and has finished T3, T15, T10 and T11. • Kenny Perry, the 2003 champion here, tied for 15th last year, ending his streak of six consecutive top-10 finishes in Milwaukee. In his last 30 rounds here Brown Deer Park, Perry has a scoring average of 67.2, is a cumulative 96-under par and has posted par-or-better scores in 29 of those rounds. His only hiccup was a final-round, 3-over-par 73 in 2005. • Tommy Armour III shot a 4-under 66 to move up the leaderboard. Armour's 66 matches his lowest score of the year -- a 66 in the final round of the Shell Houston Open. •Bob Tway made a nice turnaround in the second round today, shooting a 5-under-par 65. Tway is at even-par 140 following an opening-round 5-over 75. Tway's 10-stroke improvement is his best since he rebounded from an 80 to a 70 in the second and third rounds of the 2003 World Golf Championships-American Express Championship in Woodstock, GA. • Jerry Smith missed the cut after posting rounds of 79-68 but his 11-stroke improvement is his best bounce-back since a 77-66 sequence in the first two rounds of the 2001 Buick Classic in Rye, NY. • There were several players who made dramatic improvements from day one to day two: Andrew Ruthkoski 74-64-138
• Steve Flesch carded a 6-under-par 64 to get to 7-under 133 for the tournament. He one-putted six holes in a row on the front nine (Nos. 2-7). Flesch leads the tournament with 14 birdies over the first 36 holes. The 64 is the best score Flesch has posted in his five appearances in Milwaukee. The lefty from Kentucky has struggled in 2007, making only 10 cuts in 21 starts with his only top-25 finish a T11 at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. The 64 is the best for Flesch since a 64 in the first round of the 2006 Frys.com Open. Flesch, using a belly putter, made five putts over 10 feet on Friday, four of them for birdies. • In contrast to Flesch, veteran Billy Mayfair (64?133) made only one putt longer than 10 feet on Friday -- a 15-foot, 3-inch birdie putt on No. 16, and only two in two days. His other "long" putt was from 10-feet, 7 inches on No. 1 Thursday. • Craig Lile (72-72?144) missed the cut but has two of the five longest putts made this week to his credit. Lile rolled in a birdie putt from 53' 11" on No. 5 Thursday and added another one from 48' 9" on No. 14 Friday. • Craig Bowden (66-67?133) is the only player without a bogey over the first 36 holes. Bowden's bogey-free run is even more impressive considering he has hit only 12 of 26 fairways (46.15%) thus far. Bowden has managed to hit 26 of 36 greens in regulation (72.2%). • Tony Finau, a 17-year old from Salt Lake City, shot a 5-under 65 Friday morning and is poised to make the cut in his professional debut. Finau began his second round with five birdies over his first seven holes. Fina, at 17 years, 10 months and 6 days, is one of the youngest players ever to make a cut on the PGA TOUR. The youngest: Bob Panasik 15 years, 8 months, 29 days 1957 Canadian Open • Jeff Brehaut started his round today with an eagle-2 on the par-4, 10th hole. Brehaut holed his second shot from 126 yards out for his two. He is only the fourth player to make an eagle at that hole since the tournament moved to Brown Deer Park in 1994 and the first since Jerry Kelly did it in the first round back in 2004.  Corey Pavin • Defending champion Corey Pavin shot scores of 69-73?142 and missed the cut. • Rookie Matt Hendrix birdied three of his final four holes to make the cut on the number. Hendrix had missed the cut in his last eight starts. This is just his third cut made in 14 starts. • Jim Gallagher, Jr. extended his consecutive appearance streak to 24 this week. Gallagher's 24 in a row is a tournament record. With Wisconsin native Steve Stricker playing in the British Open this week, Gallagher is now the only player to have teed it up every year at Brown Deer Park. • Monday Qualifiers Andrew Ruthkoski (74-64?138) and Tony Finau (75-65?140) both made the cut this week. Since the tournament moved to Brown Deer Park in 1994, only seven of the 52 Monday qualifiers advanced to weekend play. This is the first time since 2000 that two of the four open qualifiers have made the cut. The best finish by a Monday qualifier (since 1994) was a T14 by Joey Gullion (71-67-63-71?272) in 2000. |
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