AT&T Classic: Second-Round Notes  PGA TOUR Staff DULUTH, Ga. -- Bob Estes had a hole-in-one Friday morning at the 133-yard 11th hole. Estes used a pitching wedge for his ace, the 10th since 1997 when the tournament moved to TPC Sugarloaf and the first since 2003. It was also just the second hole-in-one at No. 11 in 11 years. Jay Delsing had the first one in 1997. • J. J. Henry followed Estes with an ace of his own on No. 11 early in the afternoon. Henry used a gap wedge for his hole-in-one. Friday marked the first time at TPC Sugarloaf that two aces were made on the same hole on the same day. During the second round in 2002, Brett Quigley aced the second hole while Colin Montgomerie aced the eighth. • The last time there were two aces on the same hole in the same round on the PGA TOUR was at THE PLAYERS Championship in 2006, when Justin Leonard and Jesper Parnevik both made a hole-in-one on No. 13 during the second round. • Troy Matteson tied his career-best with an 8-under-par 64 on Friday. It is the sixth time in his career and the second this year that Matteson has posted a 64. He also had a 64 (7 under) in the third round of the 2007 FBR Open, where he tied for 14th. • Vaughn Taylor withdrew during the second round due to problems related to allergies. • Rich Beem withdrew during the second round due to illness. • This is the first time in Ryuji Imada's career (79th start this week) that he has held/shared the 36-hole lead in a PGA TOUR event. Imada was part of a four-way tie for first after the opening round of The Honda Classic in 2006. He has never held/shared a 54-hole lead in his career. He has three top-10 finishes in his career -- fifth 2005 Booz Allen Classic; T10 2006 BellSouth Classic; ninth 2007 EDS Byron Nelson Championship. • Ryuji Imada's 134 total matches his lowest opening 36-hole score on the PGA TOUR. Imada's 67-67 start equals his best: • This is the first time in Troy Matteson's career (50th start this week) that he has held/shared the 36-hole lead in a PGA TOUR event. Matteson did hold a couple of third-round leads in 2006. He led by one at the Frys.com Open (win) and also led by one the following week at the FUNAI Classic at Walt Disney World Resort (T2).
• Troy Matteson's 134 total matches the third-lowest opening 36-hole score on the PGA TOUR. Matteson's 70-64 start has been bettered only twice before: • D. J. Brigman (9-under, T2) is off the second-best start of his PGA TOUR career (60th start this week). Brigman's 135 total is just one shot back of his career low for the opening 36 holes: • There were a total of nine eagles made during the first round, all of them on par 5s. There were a total of 29 eagles made during Friday's second round, including two holes-in-one on No. 11 and an eagle 2 at the 305-yard 13th hole by Stephen Bowditch, who drove the green and rolled in a putt of 13 feet. It was the 33rd eagle 2 made on that hole since 1997. No other par 4 at TPC Sugarloaf has had more than four eagles made over the past 11 years. The other 20 eagles all came on par 5s today. • Robert Gamez has already tied the tournament record for most eagles with three. Gamez eagled the par-5 4th and 18th holes during Thursday's opening round. He returned with an eagle-3 at the par-5 18th again on Friday. Retief Goosen and Jesper Parnevik each had three eagles in 2002. They each had two eagles in the second round and then added a third during the final round. The PGA TOUR record for eagles in a single event is five by Dave Eichelberger at the 1980 Hawaiian Open and Davis Love III at the 1984 Hawaiian Open. • Michael Putnam was 8 under for a nine-hole stretch midway through his round Friday. Putnam had six birdies, an eagle and two pars in his run, which began at No. 13. He shot a 66 and is 3 under for the tournament. • Michael Putnam ran off a tournament record-tying streak during a seven-hole stretch. Starting at No. 15, Putnam's scorecard read 3-3-3-3-3-2-3, which tied the mark for Consecutive 3s or Less, set by Carl Pettersson in the second round in 2003 and matched by Jonathan Byrd in the third round last year. • Stephen Bowditch had a pair of eagles on Friday. He had eagles at Nos. 10 and 13. Bowditch had an "interesting" run of five holes starting at No. 9 when he went double-bogey, eagle, triple bogey, double bogey, eagle. He shot a 74 and missed the cut. • J. J. Henry also had a pair of eagles Friday. Henry had a hole-in-one at No. 11 and then eagled the par-5 18th hole. • Craig Kanada bogeyed the par-5 18th hole Friday, his first bogey of the week. Bogey-free rounds on Friday:
• Since 1997, three of 10 second-round leaders have gone on to win this event: • The 310-yard, par-4 13th hole played as the easiest par 4 on the PGA TOUR last year. The hole had a four-round scoring average of 3.547 and ranked No. 578 (out of 578). In 2006, there were only 11 bogeys made at the hole the entire week. Through the first two days this year, the hole has a cumulative scoring average of 3.666 with 15 bogeys on the scorecards already. The easiest par 4 on the 2007 PGA TOUR so far is the 332-yard 17th hole at TPC Scottsdale (FBR Open), which had a scoring average of 3.666. |
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