EUROPEAN TOUR
James Morrison of England leads the Alstom Open de France after carding a wonderful five under par 66, -11 as they go into the weekend, however it's amazing he is actually playing when he nearly pulled out of the tournament after he was hospitalised on Tuesday night when his Crohn’s disease flared up.
"I had a flare‑up start of the week and I wasn't going to play up to Wednesday morning, and put on some steroids for the week and I feel it's really calming it down now. So I'm still here," said Morrison.
All pars on his front 9 but 5 birdies coming in was the story of his round.
Joint leader, Aussie lefty Richard Green (68) was also on -11 but a double bogey on his second to last hole has him a -9
This Le Golf National is where they will play the 2018 Ryder Cup. Martin Kaymer 71,69 -2 140 is 8 shots behind. He has a home in Scottsdale and talked Bubba Watson who is his neighbour to come over and try this course that Kaymer says is one of the best. Well the Bubba in a beret thing didn't work out, 74,74 +6 au revoir..
(For the full leaderboard just click on European Tour)
1 MORRISON, James -10 13:40 - 66 66 - - 132
2 GREEN, Richard -9 13:40 - 65 68 - - 133
3 FOSTER, Mark -6 13:31 - 68 68 - - 136
T4 NIXON, Matthew -5 13:22 - 68 69 - - 137
T4 OLESEN, Thorbjørn -5 13:22 - 66 71 - - 137
T4 RAMSAY, Richie -5 13:31 - 69 68 - - 137
T7 BROADHURST, Paul -4 13:13 - 68 70 - - 138
T7 JAIDEE, Thongchai -4 13:13 - 68 70 - - 138
T9 SALTMAN, Lloyd -3 1 -1 71 69 - - 140
T9 GAGLI, Lorenzo -3 12:41 - 72 67 - - 139
T9 HANSEN, Anders -3 12:55 - 70 69 - - 139
T9 LARA, José Manuel -3 12:55 - 72 67 - - 139
T9 COLSAERTS, Nicolas -3 13:04 - 69 70 - - 139
T9 CAMPBELL, Michael -3 13:04 - 72 67 - - 139
PGA TOUR
They are getting the same brilliant weather in Philly as we are and the scoring conditions were ideal. KJ Choi was as hot as the weather with five birdies over his last six holes he shot -6 64 to match the lowest score since this AT&T has been played at Aronimink.
He has a two-shot lead over Chris Riley, Charlie Wi, Justin Leonard and Bo Van Pelt who are all at -5, 135.
KJ has already won THE PLAYERS Championship this year and is at -7,133 going into the weekend. He also won the first AT&T National in 2007 when it was played at Congressional.
The field is tightly bunched, the top 10 are only separated by 3 shots..
3 Canucks made the cut, here are their scores, Graham DeLaet had to WD..
T21 4 110 David Hearn -1 F E info 69 70 139
T41 6 223 Mike Weir 1 F* E info 71 70 141
T66 4 132 Stephen Ames 3 F 1 info 72 71 143
WD 249 Graham DeLaet
(for a full leaderboard click on PGA Tour)
1 16 1 K.J. Choi -7 F* -6 color info 69 64 133
T2 15 86 Chris Riley -5 F -4 color info 69 66 135
T2 15 36 Charlie Wi -5 F* -4 color info 69 66 135
T2 5 81 Justin Leonard -5 F* -3 color info 68 67 135
T2 15 29 Bo Van Pelt -5 F* -4 color info 69 66 135
T6 1 33 Charles Howell III -4 F* -2 color info 68 68 136
T6 11 83 Bryce Molder -4 F* -3 color info 69 67 136
T6 41 62 Jeff Overton -4 F -5 color info 71 65 136
T6 3 84 Kyle Stanley -4 F* -1 color info 67 69 136
T10 3 47 Rickie Fowler -3 F -1 color info 68 69 137
T10 9 52 Adam Scott -3 F* 1 color info 66 71 137
T10 7 94 Joe Ogilvie -3 F* E color info 67 70 137
CHAMPIONS Tour
I wish I could tell you we had 4 Canadians at the top of the leaderboard at this Montreal Championship after a glorious Canada Day but the story is John Cook and John Huston who shot -9 63s on Friday to tie the course record and share the first-round lead. Remember I mentioned yesterday that is Fontainebleau Golf Club is the 2nd easiest on tour, plus scoring conditions were perfect.
Cook, a two-time winner this year, and Huston who won last week matched the course mark set last year by D.A. Weibring.
Defending champion Larry Mize was two strokes back along with Joey Sindelar, Tommy Armour III, Jeff Sluman, Jay Haas, Dan Forsman and Lu Chien-soon.
Here are the scores for our Canadians
T34 -- Rod Spittle SC P -3 F -3 69 -- -- 69
T34 -- Jim Rutledge SC P -3 F * -3 69 -- -- 69
T60 -- Yvan Beauchemin SC P -1 F * -1 71 -- -- 71
T70 -- Daniel Talbot SC P E F * E 72
(For a full leaderboard click on PGA Tour)
T1 -- John Huston SC P -9 F * -9 63 -- -- 63
T1 -- John Cook SC P -9 F * -9 63 -- -- 63
T3 -- Joey Sindelar SC P -7 F * -7 65 -- -- 65
T3 -- Tommy Armour III SC P -7 F -7 65 -- -- 65
T3 -- Jeff Sluman SC P -7 F -7 65 -- -- 65
T3 -- Larry Mize SC P -7 F * -7 65 -- -- 65
T3 -- Jay Haas SC P -7 F * -7 65 -- -- 65
T3 -- Dan Forsman SC P -7 F * -7 65 -- -- 65
T3 -- Chien Soon Lu SC P -7 F -7 65 -- -- 65
T10 -- Corey Pavin SC P -6 F -6 66 -- -- 66
T10 -- Fulton Allem SC P -6 F * -6 66 -- -- 66
T10 -- Vicente Fernandez SC P -6 F -6 66 -- -- 66
T10 -- Hal Sutton SC P -6 F * -6 66 -- -- 66
T10 -- R.W. Eaks SC P -6 F -6 66 -- -- 66
CANADIAN Tour
This week's stop is the ATB Financial Classic at the Bearspaw Country Club in Calgary where they are playing for $200,000 CAD.
Here is the top 10 leaderboard with Canadians in bold
T1 Daniel Im - 12:30PM -9 67 66 - 133
T1 Alex Coe - 12:30PM -9 66 67 - 133
3 Hugo Leon - 12:21PM -8 66 68 - 134
T4 Dustin Risdon - 12:21PM -6 67 69 - 136
T4 Benjamin Alvarado - 12:12PM -6 66 70 - 136
T4 Brad Fritsch - 12:12PM -6 66 70 - 136
T7 J. Rodriguez - 12:03PM -5 68 69 - 137
T7 Ryan Yip - 12:03PM -5 66 71 - 137
T7 Sean Shahi - 11:54AM -5 68 69 - 137
T10 Wes Homan - 11:54AM -4 68 70 - 138
T10 Garrett Sapp - 11:45AM -4 70 68 - 138
T10 Cody Slover - 11:45AM -4 70 68 - 138
T10 James Allenby - 11:36AM -4 71 67 - 138
T10 Liam Kendregan - 11:36AM -4 66 72 - 138
T10 Ryan Williams - 11:27AM -4 68 70 - 138
The LPGA and Nationwide tours are off this week
Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles
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