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On a day of low scoring at Spyglass Hill and in particular Pebble Beach, three of golf's bright young stars, Patrick Cantlay who shot a 61 in his last round, tied the course record -10 62 took a 2 shot lead over a tall gangly 19 year old American of Indian descent Akshay Bhatia -8 64 and Sweden's Henrik Norlander -8 64. Bhatia who turned pro right out of high school hit all 18 greens
Over a third of the field scored in the 60's on the two courses in ideal conditions with Spyglass playing 2 shots tougher. Jordan Spieth's 65 at Pebble was still 3 shots off the pace. Rain fell overnight and will be around on and off on Saturday.
Canadians: The defending champion Nick Taylor opened with an eagle at the second on his way to T37 -3 69. David Hearn was at Spyglass Hill with +1 73 T97, Roger Sloan joined him +2 74 T117 and Michael Gligic struggled to +3 75 at Pebble T135.
I've been following Paul Casey's sojourn through the European Tour's desert swing where he won in Dubai and he has continued his globe trotting, flying here this week and opening with T22 -4 68 at Spyglass so he gets Pebble Beach in soft conditions today.
They are only using 2 courses instead of 3, dropping Monterey since there are no Amateurs this year. It is a pretty weak field all things considered, the highest ranked player at #11 is Patrick Cantlay. The world's top 10 did not show up and the European Tour is off for two weeks.
Bryan Angus
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