Olympic Men's Golf Competition scoreboard http://results.nbcolympics.com/golf/event/men/index.html?v=20160812-204151155
It isn't just your normal weekly pro tour event, it's the summer Olympics and it's starting to sink in as far as golf's return to these storied games since Canada's George Lyon won it last, back in 1904.
13 different flags are blowing in the top 10 over the grandstand scoreboard and I am proud to report the Maple Leaf is one of them.
Graham DeLaet as proud a Canuck as there is didn't bring his A game but he played well enough along with the encouragement of Stanley Cupper Ray Whitney on his bag, to follow his opening -5 66 with an E 71 to sit T6 at the halfway point of this Olympic Men's Golf Competition
Canada has won 10 medals so far, led by our flag bearer and defending trampoline champion Rosie McLennan, and our golfing quartet of DeLaet, David Hearn (69 -1 total) Brooke Henderson and a resurgent Alena Sharp would love to add to that total.
Olympic connection: Australia's Marcus Fraser added a 69 to his opening 63 to lead the way at -10 followed by one of the two Belgians, Thomas Pieters (69 -9 total), then who else Sweden's Henrik Stenson who scrambled and putted his way to -3 68 -8 total in what is turning out to be his summer of summer's with the Ryder Cup yet to come, then the Fleur de Lis on the chest of Gregory Bourdy (T4 69 -6 total), Justin Rose ( 69 -6 total), an Englishman representing GB, followed at T6 by the game's fittest golfer Rafa Cabrera Bello from Spain (70 -5 total) along with DeLaet, Korean born Kiwi Danny Lee, (65 -5 total) then South Korean Pan CT (69 -4 total) in 10th along with Norway's Thorbjorn Olesen (68), Germany's Alex Cjeka (71) and Ireland's Seamus Power (67).
If you are wondering where the Yanks are, well their best T14 at -3 is Matt Kuchar , then Bubba T18 -2 then Patrick Reed T22 at -1 and finally Rickie Fowler 50th +4.
David Hearn played well on a day that swung from ideal, to windy and wet, and he is T37 +1 (73 70).
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