"Most of it was all on the greens, and obviously I'm driving the ball really well and putting really well. Ask any pro; that's a pretty good combination to have, especially on a golf course this long where you have to drive the ball in the fairway."
So said Martin Laird after his sparking -7 65 yesterday gave him a 1 shot lead over Spencer Levin 970) and KJ Choi (64).
So apart from Monty and maybe Sandy Lyle what other prominent Scots do you know, and I won't take you back to the patriarchs of this game with James Braid and Old and Young Tom Morris etal.. Here are a few..
Tommy Armour, Ken and Eric Brown, Brian Barnes, Andrew Colthart, Ross and Scott Drummond, David Huish, Bernard Gallagher, Martin Laird, Paul Lawrie, Catriona Matthew, Gary Orr, Richie Ramsey, Ronnie Shade, Sam Torrance..
Laird from Glasgow came over to the States as a 17 year old and spent 4 years at Colorado State University under the tutelage of coach Jamie Bermel and made his pro debut in 2009. He has been playing really well all year with 5 T25's in 7 starts including T3 at Phoenix and T5 at Transitions. He hits it a mile ( 4th in driving distance) and as he says his putter is now co-operating as well..
Tiger as I mentioned yesterday is at -3 (73,68) and Mickelson is T42 +1 after 70,75.
Here is a leaderboard going into today with our Stephen Ames starting at E (75,69)
1 3 4 Martin Laird -9 F* -7 color info 70 65 135
T2 1 9 Spencer Levin -8 F -2 color info 66 70 136
T2 20 23 K.J. Choi -8 F -8 color info 72 64 136
T4 11 21 Steve Marino -6 F -5 color info 71 67 138
T4 27 38 Charles Howell III -6 F* -7 color info 73 65 138
T4 2 10 Hunter Mahan -6 F -3 color info 69 69 138
T4 49 Vaughn Taylor -6 F -4 color info 70 68 138
T8 6 28 Rickie Fowler -4 F -1 color info 69 71 140
T8 4 20 Jason Dufner -4 F* -2 color info 70 70 140
T10 21 79 Tiger Woods -3 F* -4 color info 73 68 141
T10 21 104 Sergio Garcia -3 F -4 color info 73 68 141
T10 36 83 David Toms -3 F* -5 color info 74 67 141
T10 21 71 William McGirt -3 F -4 color info 73 68 141
T10 6 5 Bubba Watson -3 F -1 color info 70 71 141
T10 36 31 Ryan Moore -3 F -5 color info 74 67 141
T10 6 27 Chris Couch -3 F -1 color info 70 71 141
NATIONWIDE Tour
Meanwhile down in Louisiana we have 3 Canucks in the top 20.
Matt McQuillan who has MC in 5 of his 6 starts on the big tour used 33 putts in round 1. Yesterday he only used an amazing 21 on his way to -5 66 and a -6 total good for T4..
Jon Mills and Chris Baryla are both T20 at -3, 10 shots off the lead held by Brett Wetterich 67 65 -10..
Anderew Parr and Richard T Lee both MC..
Here is a leaderboard...
1 T5 Brett Wetterich SC P -6 F -10 67 65 -- -- 132
T2 T15 Charles Warren SC P -5 F -7 69 66 -- -- 135
T2 T15 Andres Echavarria SC P -5 F * -7 69 66 -- -- 135
T4 T5 Fran Quinn SC P -2 F * -6 67 69 -- -- 136
T4 1 Rich Barcelo SC P E F -6 65 71 -- -- 136
T4 T31 Matt McQuillan SC P -5 F * -6 70 66 -- -- 136
T7 T15 Garth Mulroy SC P -3 F -5 69 68 -- -- 137
T7 T15 Nicholas Thompson SC P -3 F -5 69 68 -- -- 137
T7 T15 Danny Lee SC P -3 F -5 69 68 -- -- 137
T7 T2 Aaron Watkins SC P E F * -5 66 71 -- -- 137
T7 T15 Ron Whittaker SC P -3 F * -5 69 68 -- -- 137
T7 T15 Bubba Dickerson SC P -3 F -5 69 68 -- -- 137
T13 T52 Martin Flores SC P -4 F -4 71 67 -- -- 138
T13 T15 Kevin Chappell SC P -2 F -4 69 69 -- -- 138
T13 T75 Darron Stiles SC P -5 F * -4 72 66 -- -- 138
T13 T31 Elliot Gealy SC P -3 F * -4 70 68 -- -- 138
T13 T2 Carl Paulson SC P 1 F * -4 66 72 -- -- 138
T13 T10 Andrew Buckle SC P -1 F -4 68 70 -- -- 138
T13 T31 Scott Brown SC P -3 F -4 70 68 -- -- 138
T20 T90 Jason Schultz SC P -5 F * -3 73 66 -- -- 139
T20 T15 Jon Mills SC P -1 F * -3 69 70 -- -- 139
T20 T10 Chris Baryla SC P E F * -3 68 71 -- -- 139
LPGA Tour
Over half the field has not completed round 2 yet due to weather delays and I will continue to update that story including our 5 Canucks at the Kia Classic out near LA.
EUROPEAN Tour
Round 3 is well underway this morning and more than 20 players were separated by only four strokes at the halfway stage of the Open de Andalucía de Golf with Jeppe Huldahl, Rikard Karlberg and Maarten Lafeber leading the way.
I will update this as the day progresses
Bryan Angus
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