JELD-WEN Tradition: Second-Round Notebook  PGA TOUR Staff SUNRIVER, Ore. -- David Edwards' two-stroke advantage over Mark McNulty after two runds of the JELD-WEN Tradition marked the third consecutive year that the 36-hole leader held a lead of more than one stroke. Bobby Wadkins held a three-stroke lead over Lonnie Nielsen in 2006 and Gil Morgan led by two over McNulty, Tom Jenkins and Loren Roberts in 2005. Neither Morgan or Wadkins went on to win.  Don Pooley recorded one of two aces in the second round. (WireImage)
• The last player to lead after 36 holes and win this event was Tom Watson in 2003. Edwards' 65 matched his season-low round on the Champions Tour and is also the low round of the tournament thus far. He also had 65s in the final round of the Turtle Bay Championship as well as the opening round of The Boeing Championship at Sandestin. • The last time Edwards led after 36 holes was at the 2006 Ford Senior Players Championship, where he was one of eight players who shared the lead. He eventually finished tied for 22nd. Edwards is bogey-free after 36 holes and has made just one bogey in his last 67 holes going back to his last start at the 3M Championship. He has made 21 birdies during that span. • Edwards' 36-hole total of 12-under-par 132 matches his career-best for 36 holes on the Champions Tour. He also had a 36-hole total of 132 (8 under par) at the 2006 Senior Open Championship where he finished tied for eighth. The course yardage for Friday's second round measured 7,508 yards, the longest in Champions Tour history, surpassing the 7,489-yard set-up on Thursday at Crosswater. • One day after chipping in from 37 yards for an eagle on No. 16, Don Pooley made the first hole-in-one of his Champions Tour career (seventh overall) when he aced No. 7 on Friday. Pooley used a 5-iron on the 189-yard hole. It was the 11th hole in tournament history and also the 11th on the Champions Tour this year (Danny Edwards later added the 12th in each category). • Pooley's ace was significant because there has been at least one hole-in-one in each of the first four major championships on the Champions Tour this year. Ron Stelten had first at the Senior PGA Championship and Bob Ford recorded the second at the U.S. Senior Open. Jon Chaffee and Dennis Durnian each had one at the Senior Open Championship. Danny Edwards was able to share some of the hole-in-one glory later in the day when he made an ace at No. 3. Edwards used a 7-iron on the 181-yard hole. It was his second in a PGA TOUR event. He also made one at the 1978 IVB-Philadelphia Classic. With the two holes-in-one on Friday, it marks the first time there has been a pair of aces in the same round since the 2006 Ford Senior Players Championship, when Larry Nelson and Des Smyth made them in the third round. • 3M Championship winner D.A. Weibring's 6-under-par 66 on Friday moved him up 20 places and moved him back into contention for the weekend. Weibring got off to a fast start, sinking a pitching wedge for an eagle from 115 yards on the opening hole. In fact, neither Weibring nor his playing partners -- Peter Jacobsen and Bob Gilder -- had to putt on the hole. Jacobsen and Gilder chipped in from off the green. • Graham Marsh, the 1999 JELD-WEN Tradition winner, made one of the day's biggest moves, jumping 33 places from tie for 43rd to tie for 10th after a 5-under-par 67. Also moving up 33 spots was defending champion Eduardo Romero, who fired a 4-under-par 68. • Friday's scoring average was 72.304, a drop from Thursday's average of 72.595. Sixteen players in the 79-man field had rounds in the 60s, compared to 10 on Thursday and 33 finished with scores below par, eight more than on Thursday. • While No. 18 was the most difficult on Thursday with an average of 4.380 (+.380), No. 17 moved to the forefront with an average of 3.253 (+.253) on Friday. However, No. 18 dropped to second overall in difficulty and only four players made birdies on each of the two holes. No. 2 remains the easiest after two rounds. • Mark McNulty has hit all 28 fairways to lead all players in that category. Going back to his last start at the 3M Championship, McNulty has now hit 43 consecutive fairways. • Scott Simpson has the fewest putts after two rounds (49/24.5 average), while D.A. Weibring had just 22 on Friday. Simpson came into this event ranked 63rd on the Champions Tour with an average of 30.13 putts- per-round. Brad Bryant, who ranks second this season in Greens in Regulation (74.8 percent), certainly isn't hurting his average. After two rounds, Bryant leads all players at 83.3 percent (30/36) in that category. • In the previous Champions Tour major championships this year, none of the 36-hole leaders went on to win. Eduardo Romero (Senior PGA Championship; led by two strokes), Tom Watson (U.S. Senior Open; led by three strokes) and Des Smyth (Senior Open Championship; led by one stroke). Of the current 15 players in the top 10, seven of those own major titles on either the PGA TOUR or Champions Tour. Among those players, Tom Watson, Tom Kite, Craig Stadler and Graham Marsh, are multiple winners. |
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