PGA Tour Waste Management Phoenix Open leaderboard http://www.pgatour.com/competition/2017/waste-management-phoenix-open/leaderboard.html
In round 2 on Friday I wrote here about Graham DeLaet charging up the leaderboard, T2 through 12 holes, unfortunately he then made 4 bogey's in 6 holes, but he still came in with a 69 to stay in the mix.
Yesterday, in front of 204,906 fans, he corrected that finish, with 7 birdies along with a lone bogey, out in 32, back in 33 for a brilliant -6 65 and a -12 total, 4 shots behind the stunning South Korean, known to all but his mother as Ben An who will be tough to beat after a flawless 66 66 65 -16.
If you are wondering where you have heard his name, An won the 2009 U.S. Amateur at 17 to become the youngest winner in event history.
Martin Laird also shot 65 and is just behind at -15 while defending champion Hideki Matsuyama (68), John Peterson (63) and Michael Kim (66) all join DeLaet on -12.
Adam Hadwin (70) continues his fine form, and he was at -6 T35th and is already under way as they have teed off early with the SuperBowl on tap around 6pm EST.
So far 596,880 have clicked through the turnstiles in six days, setting records each day and with today's attendance expected to be around 80,000 this edition of the Phoenix Open will top the record of 618,365 set last year.
There are a lot of college kids who have downed a lot of beer at this most rowdy of PGA Tour events, and some 20,000 of them have jammed into the bleachers around the 16th this morning and are already hard at it, and I'm sure they will carry their celebrations right on into the Super Bowl tailgate later on this big Sunday in sports.
Let's see if Graham and Ruby DeLaet can join them !!!
Bryan Angus
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