Overnight the property is left in the hands of security and the police, the first people to show up, and sometimes they don't go home if the weather is bad are the grounds crew, their job made more difficult by the players going off split tees on Thursday and Friday so all the tee boxes, greens, pins need to be done before play starts at 700am..
You will see the 700am guys on the practice range in the dark, they are here by 530am..
The early flight gets going then off 1 and 10 , for example this morning I followed Ernie Els, Scott Piercy and Luke Donald off 10 and down the valley, where it was stinking hot already, dead still and ideal for scoring... Ernie made a bogey at 10 after driving it under the trees on the left. but made a 35 footer for birdie at 11 after hitting it into the fairway bunker, had a birdie putt at the par 3 12th he missed, made a sandy at the par 5 13th for birdie, and made his 3rd birdie on the par 3 15th..... but then gave away all that good work with 7 and the par 5 18th... Out in 37 which is E....He'll be disappointed
Mike Weir is -4 through 8 holes, he started on 10 and GMac who shot 76 yesterday is -5 through 9 holes today including an eagle at par 5 16th
Scott Piercy, the defending champion hits it a country mile, Jesper Parnevik still has all those nervous twitches, he hit a big fade into the credit river on 14, lost his ball, needed a rules official to figure out where his drop was..
Almost everyone out early is under par, John Merrick is -5 through 10, he made an eagle on the par 5 2nd...
updating **** 605pm
* boy it's been a long day..up at 330am. long drive to and back from the Abbey
* the day is far from done, Mike Weir's euphoria was doused a bit with cold water with 3 bogey's in his last 4 holes..however he really gave the crowd something to cheer about
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* there were big names out there this afternoon and Hunter Mahan who was in the last pairing at Muirfield and at the US Open shot -8 64 and is the leader at -13...Remember his coach Sean Foley was born 10 mins from the Abbey and that is not lost on Hunter...
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* GOOD NEWS.BAD NEWS
Good news...Mike Weir and Roger Sloan -4....
Bad News... Mahan is at -13...
Graham DeLaet and David Hearn had a tough day although Hearn had a big birdie birdie birdie finish to make the cut.
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* If no Canadian can win the next best scenario for the tournament has Bubba, Matt, Ernie, someone like that to win..
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* John Merrick tied the course record of -10 62 and he had this to say afterwards
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Live scoring link http://www.pgatour.com/leaderboard.html
Friday Wrap up
golfcanada..Hunter Mahan fired a second round 8-under 64 to grab the lead through 36 holes at the 2013 RBC Canadian Open at Glen Abbey Golf Club. Mahan heads into the weekend with a two-stroke lead over John Merrick who matched the course record at Glen Abbey with a 10-under 62 on Friday morning.
Four Canadians made the cut, including Mike Weir who at one point during the day sat as high as a tie for third on the leaderboard. Weir posted a second round 5-under 67 and will play Glen Abbey this weekend alongside Roger Sloan of Merritt, B.C., Brad Fritsch of Ottawa, Ont., and David Hearn who birdied his last three holes to make the cut on the number.
More to follow..
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