Another windless, dull, damp day met the golfers and gallery today at Lytham, hard by the Irish Sea, just north of St Annes on the NW coast of England..
Another inch of overnight rain left bunkers around the course, especially on 16, 17 and 18 partially filled with water.
The R&A ordered the greens double cut and rolled which they did around 3am to ensure they maintained their speed at around 11 on the stimpmeter, then as Dave Perkins told us on our Breakfast Club show on www.NextSportStar.com during his live report, they then went and buried many of the flags to protect the course as much as possible.
Brandt Snedeker went out early and equalled the course record -6 64, set the day before by Adam Scott to lead at -10 by as many as 6 shots for part of the day, before Scott playing in the late flight stormed in himself with -3 67 to get it to -9.
Matt Kucher 67, -4 total said in his interview that he wished he could go out again and keep playing, describing the last 3 holes as no more than 3woods and wedges as long as you avoid the bunkers
Right now as the final groups are finishing up Tiger is -2 on his round -5 total along with South African Tomas Aitken, and 5 players including Kuchar, GMac, Dufner and Lawrie are on -4.
The question is will the cut be +2 or +3. Tom Watson, Lee Westwood and John Daly are all on the latter..
Rory 75 +2 and Colsaerts 77 +2 are both in, but out of it. Luke Donald is at -2 after 70 68.
It seems to me with the weather forecast for much of the same calm conditions tomorrow, Adam Scott and Brandt Snedeker have a chance to continue to get away from the field by themselves but here is the kicker...
Sunday the wind is finally scheduled to blow 25 -30mph which will completely change the format...
******Tiger has holed out from the greenside bunker at 18 to get in with 67 at -6, it will be the shot of the day on the evening news..*****
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Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles and at www.isr1050.com and Breakfast Club host on www.NextSportStar.com
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