AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am: Second-round notebook

text size

Dunn/Getty Images

Dustin Johnson is in the hunt for his second win on the PGA TOUR.

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- The first three rounds will be played with preferred lies.

• This is the seventh time that Goosen has led or shared the lead through two rounds. The last time was the 2005 TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola. Of the six previous events, he has one victory.

• Both of Goosen's top-10 finishes last year on the PGA TOUR came at World Golf Championships events (a tie for second at the CA Championship and tie for fourth at the Bridgestone Invitational).

• Goosen's low round on the PGA TOUR is a 62 at the 2002 World Golf Championships-American Express Championship. His 64 on Friday matches his second-lowest round on TOUR, which he has done nine previous times.

• Goosen's 68-64--132 total is the second-lowest through 36 holes of his PGA TOUR career. He has twice shot a 36-hole total of 130. First at the 2002 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational and again at the 2005 TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola.

• Dustin Johnson's 65-69--134 total is the lowest 36-hole total of his career. His previous low was 66-69--135 at the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee last year.

• Johnson finished tied for seventh last year in his first appearance at Pebble Beach.

• Johnson played his first 18 holes bogey free at Pebble Beach Golf Links on Thursday. His second round at Spyglass was marked by one blemish, a double bogey at the par-4 17th hole, his eighth hole of the day after starting on No. 10.

• Johnson's previous best standing through 36 holes was seventh at the 2008 Turning Stone Resort, when he went on to record his first PGA TOUR win.

• Charley Hoffman finished his day with a birdie on his 17th hole (hole No. 8) and eagled the par-5 ninth hole to finish his round at 8-under-par for the tournament, four strokes off the lead and tied for third. Hoffman is looking for his third consecutive top-10 finish of the season, matching his total from last season. In 331 previous starts on the PGA TOUR, Hoffman has never had three consecutive top-10 finishes.

• At sixth place, Hoffman is the highest-ranked player without a victory in the early FedExCup standings. He has shot par or better in 14 of 15 rounds so far this season.

• In three events in 2009, Hoffman has yet to finish outside the top-20 including a playoff loss to Kenny Perry at the FBR Open: Bob Hope Classic hosted by Arnold Palmer, tied for 19th; FBR Open, runner up; Buick Invitational, tie for seventh.

• Mike Weir followed Thursday's 67 at Poppy Hills with a 69 on Friday at Pebble Beach Golf Links and is tied for third at 8-under-par. Weir has six top-10s in 11 starts at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.

• Only five players since 1970 (and two since 1993) have made the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am their first win on the PGA TOUR: John Cook (1981), Steve Jones (1988), Brett Ogle (1993), Matt Gogel (2002) and Arron Oberholser (2006).

• There are four players in the top 10 who are looking for their first PGA TOUR victory: Robert Garrigus (tied for third at 8 under); Charlie Wi (tied for seventh at 7 under); Aron Price (tied for seventh at 7 under); Bill Lunde (tied for seventh at 7 under).

• Lunde, Bob Heintz, Todd Fischer, Jim Furyk and Glen Day shot bogey-free rounds on Friday. Lunde is the only player in the field who is bogey free through all 36 holes.