Jhonattan Vegas got all the publicity last week when he won the Hope, but those keener's amongst you will remember he beat Gary Woodland and Bill Haas in the playoff.
Well Jhonny Vegas continues his fine play, he is T12 at -6 69 60 138 the same score incidentally as a certain Tiger Woods, but it is Jay's son Bill Haas to is atop the field by 2 shots as we go into the weekend, with a tightly packed leader board.
He is at -11 67 66 133. The son of former PGA TOUR player Jay Haas, he was a can't-miss kid out of Wake Forest who plodded along until winning twice last year.
Jay Haas won this tournament in 1978, so long ago that Gene Littler was a runner-up and the South Course was only 7,021 yards. In the modern era -- the South was lengthened to 7,698 yards to host the 2008 U.S. Open -- Bill Haas thrived. He ran off four straight birdies around the turn and dropped two shots on par 3s.
Nice to see Anthony Kim back in contention, now recovered from that debilitating thumb injury and with a new much more appreciative attitude. He was actually tied for the lead before dropping a couple on his back nine.
Mickelson, another of the story's this week made back-to-back birdies at the end of his round for a 3-under 69 on the North Course
John Daly, resplendent in electric lime green is in a group of 7 who are T3 -8 67 69 136.
Here's the synopsis of Tiger's round as much is being made of some shoddy bunker play..
Woods ran off four straight birdies early in his round and at one point was only three shots out of the lead. But he twice took two shots to get out of bunkers and was as many as eight shots behind until the final half-hour. He laced a 5-iron into 12 feet for birdie on the 16th, made a 20-foot par putt after a plugged lie in the face of a bunker on the 17th, then hit 5-wood from 248 yards over the water and onto the green on the par-5 18th, two-putting for birdie.
Of our Canucks only Mike Weir made the cut which fell at -1. His scores ..T58 -2 72 70 142, so he will get a paycheck this weekend as he strives to get full status via the money list. Remember he has this week then 3 others to make around $240,000, so though he won't win this weekend every shot goes towards that goal...
Chris Baryla 71 78 149
David Hearn 74 75 149
Stephen Ames 75 75 150
Matt McQuillan 74 77 151
1 4 -- Bill Haas (SC) -11 F* -6 67 66 133
2 13 -- Anthony Kim (SC) -9 F -5 68 67 135
T3 2 -- Fredrik Jacobson (SC) -8 F -3 67 69 136
T3 51 -- Bubba Watson (NC) -8 F* -7 71 65 136
T3 1 -- Rickie Fowler (SC) -8 F -1 65 71 136
T3 2 -- Phil Mickelson (NC) -8 F* -3 67 69 136
T3 2 -- John Daly (NC) -8 F* -3 67 69 136
T3 19 -- Hunter Mahan (NC) -8 F -5 69 67 136
T3 32 -- Ben Crane (NC) -8 F* -6 70 66 136
T10 12 -- Brian Davis (NC) -7 F -4 69 68 137
T10 6 -- Chris Kirk (SC) -7 F -1 66 71 137
T12 10 -- Dustin Johnson (NC) -6 F* -3 69 69 138
T12 10 -- Kevin Sutherland (NC) -6 F* -3 69 69 138
T12 10 -- Jhonattan Vegas (SC) -6 F -3 69 69 138
T12 10 -- Tiger Woods (SC) -6 F -3 69 69 138
T12 23 -- Brendan Steele (NC) -6 F* -4 70 68 138
EUROPEAN tour
Round 3 is well under way in Bahrain with the leaders two thirds of the way through their rounds and I can tell you the Swede Peter Hanson has a 2 shot lead, I will wrap this later this morning..
Bryan Angus ( research and some notes pgatour.com, europeantour.com)
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