• Second-round leader Duffy Waldorf last held the second-round lead at the 2002 British Open. This is the 10th time Waldorf has held/shared the second-round lead. He won one of these events (1995 LaCantera Texas Open) and finished in the top-10 seven times. Waldorf’s last top-10 finish was a tie for seventh at the 2004 84 LUMBER Classic. The cut came at 4-under-par 140 with 72 players advancing to weekend play. Last year, the cut came in at 5-under par. The scoring average between rounds one and two fell 0.207 strokes with round two finishing with a scoring average of 70.196. • Scott Gutschewski finished No. 149 on the PGA TOUR money list in 2005. His best finish on TOUR is tie for 13th at the 2005 Chrysler Classic of Greensboro. He opened this tournament last year with a 69-67-136 enroute to a tie for 20th finish. His two-round total of 134 is the lowest 36-hole score of his TOUR career. • Rookie Bubba Watson, who learned to shape golf shots by hitting plastic golf balls around corners in hallways in his house growing up, is two strokes off the lead after two rounds. Watson started the season finishing fourth at the Sony Open in Hawaii, his lone top-10 finish this year.
• Watson, who put a new driver with a hot-pink shaft into play this week, ranks seventh (312.5 yards) in driving distance this week and leads the TOUR in driving distance for the year with an average of 320.6 yards per drive. He is 6 under on the four par 5s so far here at Omni Tucson National Golf Resort and Spa with six birdies and two pars. • Mark Brooks birdied three of the four par-3 holes on Friday. His putts on those three holes were a combined 69 feet, 9 inches (34 feet, two inches, 20 feet, six inches and 15 fee, 1 inch). Brooks leads the field this week in putting average with 1.480 putts per hole. The next closest is Jason Gore at 1.522 putts per hole. Gore leads the field through two rounds with 25 putts per round. • Jason Gore, who was the PAC-10 Champion in 1993 and 1994 his only two years at the University of Arizona prior to transferring to Pepperdine University, continued his solid play this week shooting a 6-under-par 66 and is two strokes off the lead at 10-under par. The 66 is his lowest score in eight starts this season on the PGA TOUR. • Mark Brooks made his first cut here in Tucson since 1998 matching Cameron Beckman for low round of the day by firing an 8-under-par 64. Brooks has two top-10 finishes in his last 100 events. His second-round 64 is his lowest round since the 2004 Michelin Championship in Las Vegas. • John Cook’s opening rounds of 68-69 mark his best start at this event since he opened the 1991 tournament 66-69. Cook recorded his best finish at this tournament (tie for fifth) that year -- his only top-10 finish in 16 previous tries here in Tucson. • Brian Henninger’s two PGA TOUR victories have both come opposite other PGA TOUR events during the same week. His 1994 victory at the Deposit Guaranty Golf Classic was opposite the British Open, while his win at the 1999 Southern Farm Bureau Classic was the same week as THE TOUR Championship. Henninger’s last top-10 finish came at the 2002 B.C. Open. In six starts at this event, Henninger has never finished better than a tie for 65th. • Bob Tway finished the second round at 10-under par, two strokes off the lead. He is the tournament’s all-time leading money-winner with $819,610. Tway has made the cut in 13 out of 17 starts here, including his last nine. • Jerry Kelly is making his first start in Tucson since 2001. In six previous starts, Kelly has one top-10, a tie for 10th in 1997. Kelly is at 10-under par for the tournament, two strokes off the lead. • Bob Estes and Bubba Watson have gone 36 holes without a bogey this week. There were 14 bogey-free rounds on Friday. Estes, Watson, Mark Brooks, Alex Cejka, Kris Cox, Hunter Mahan, Kevin Sutherland and Garrett Willis all had bogey-free rounds in the morning groups, while Bob Tway, Jason Gore, Ian Leggatt, David Branshaw, Ted Purdy and Jeff Brehaut went par or better on every hole of the afternoon tee times. • Bob Burns withdrew prior to round two, giving no reason for his withdrawing. Steven Bowditch withdrew due to an injury following the first round. • In a tournament known for producing first-time winners on the PGA TOUR, the following players in the top 10 have yet record their first TOUR victory: Player Place thru two rounds Score Mark Wilson 2 11-under Scott Gutcheski T3 10-under Bubba Watson T3 10-under Jason Allred T8 9-under Alex Cejka T8 9-under
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