I was following Rod Spittle -6 66, and Jim Rutledge -5 67 T26, on the Internet and when Rod birdied 18 he moved up to T6.
It was one of his 8 birdies which ranked him 4th on the week. He has now been T16, 2nd and T6 in his 3 outings this year, worth $229,600, 6th on the money list.. He has been putting superbly, in fact he is ranked #3 on tour
I asked Jim after the round what T26 gets him in terms of next week. His reply "T26 gets me nothing, it's back to Monday qualifying" That's how tough this tour is. Jim is 18th on the money list with $78,720, he's been T6,T26 , and if it's and buts were candies and nuts we'd all have a wonderful Christmas, but if Jim had avoided the 2 double bogey's he had on the weekend, his score would have been 205, good for T10 which would have qualified him for next week. Jim has never been a great putter (36th) but he is 3rd on tour in GIR..
Bernhard Langer won easily posting another -6 66. He sorted things out early getting to -3 through his first 6 holes and never looked back..
1 1 Bernhard Langer SC P -6 F -20 64 66 66 196
T2 Fred Funk SC P -6 F -16 68 66 66 200
T3 T6 Nick Price SC P -6 F -15 68 67 66 201
T3 T2 Russ Cochran SC P -5 F -15 64 70 67 201
5 T2 Mark Calcavecchia SC P -4 F -14 67 67 68 202
T6 T9 Olin Browne SC P -6 F -13 67 70 66 203
T6 T9 Rod Spittle SC P -6 F -13 70 67 66 203
T6 T2 Mark O'Meara SC P -3 F -13 65 69 69 203
9 8 Mark Wiebe SC P -4 F -12 71 65 68 204
T10 T22 David Peoples SC P -7 F -11 71 69 65 205
PGA tour
Freddie Couples had Riviera all abuzz when he opened with 3 birdies to take the lead, but bogey, double bogey, bogey between 6 and 10 derailed him and it was then the other veteran Vijay Singh who got to within a shot at 11, but 2 bogey's later Aaron Baddeley had the 2 shot cushion he would never relinquish
It's Aaron's 3rd PGA tour win his first in 4 years and all the work he has put into his new swing with his old coach Dale Lynch for the last 2 years has finally paid off.
By the way look at David Duval T9. He has had 3 T25's in 5 outings this year as he continues quietly to work his way back into the form that made him the world's number 1 player a decade ago.
1 4 Aaron Baddeley -12 F -2 color info 67 69 67 69 272
2 2 7 Vijay Singh -10 F -2 color info 68 70 67 69 274
3 1 15 Kevin Na -9 F E color info 71 66 67 71 275
T4 3 13 Jimmy Walker -8 F -3 color info 68 71 69 68 276
T4 3 57 Robert Allenby -8 F -3 color info 67 70 71 68 276
T4 1 59 Ryan Moore -8 F -2 color info 69 68 70 69 276
T7 7 45 K.J. Choi -7 F -3 color info 70 69 70 68 277
T7 5 61 Fred Couples -7 F 2 color info 68 66 70 73 277
T9 22 38 J.J. Henry -6 F -5 color info 69 74 69 66 278
T9 15 41 David Duval -6 F -4 color info 71 71 69 67 278
T9 2 26 Justin Rose -6 F -1 color info 69 69 70 70 278
Next week the world's top 64 go to Arizona for the Accenture World Match Play which Ian Poulter won last year and the rest of these guys go to Cancun in Mexico for the Mayakoba Golf Classic
For the Match Play brackets click on pga tour on the right side of my blog.. Tiger is playing Thomas Bjorn. Lee Westwood starts against Henrik Stenson..
There are no Canadians in the field but Baryla, Hearn and McQuillan are all travelling to Cancun for the Mayakoba.
Bryan Angus
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