Round 2 notes: U.S. Bank Championship

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• Eighty players made the cut this week at 1-over-par 141, with low 70 and ties making the cut. After three rounds at the U.S. Bank Championship, the field will be reduced from 80 players to low 70 and ties via the PGA TOUR's secondary cut, which calls for the field to be reduced to the low 70 players and ties if the 36-hole cut results in more than 78 players making the cut.

• The cut at 1-over-par was the highest cut at the U.S. Bank Championship since an identical cut in 2004.

• The 36-hole leader Greg Chalmers was tied for the lead following 36 holes at one previous PGA TOUR event -- the 2000 Nissan Open where he opened 67-66. Chalmers ultimately finished T18.

• Chalmers is looking to join Greg Norman (1989) as Australian champions at the U.S. Bank Championship.

• Chalmers continued his fine putting in Round 2, as he totaled just 25 on the day (73' 5" total feet) and has needed only 49 putts through 36 holes. In Round 1, Chalmers' made putts totaled 175' 2".

• Rookie Kris Blanks (T2) carded the low round of the tournament thus far with a career-low 7-under-par 63 on Friday. Blanks has one top-25 this season in 12 starts, a T17 at the Valero Texas Open.

• In the second round, Omar Uresti recorded a hole-in-one with a 3-iron on No. 7 from 200 yards. It was the 15th hole-in-one at the U.S. Bank Championship since moving to Brown Deer Park and the first since Richard S. Johnson aced the 14th hole in the first round in 2008.

• Jerry Kelly (T23) posted his 12th consecutive round in the 60s at the U.S. Bank Championship on Friday with his 2-under-par 68. The 12 consecutive rounds in the 60s are a tournament record.

• Loren Roberts (T31) set the tournament record for most made cuts with his 20th, surpassing the 19 of Jay Haas, Mark Calcavecchia and Joey Sindelar.

• Scott Hoch (T23) made a tournament-record 13th straight cut at the U.S. Bank Championship, spanning 1993-2004 and 2009.

• The lone amateur in the field, Mike Van Sickle, missed the cut after posting rounds of 72-71 this week.

• Kevin Na (T5) leads the U.S. Bank Championship field in FedExCup points, as he enters this week 20th in the standings with 870 points. Na has six top-10s this season, including a T3 at THE PLAYERS Championship.

• Jeff Sluman (T8) has eight top-10s in 20 previous starts at the U.S. Bank Championship, including two victories. In his last nine starts at the event, Sluman has two wins and six top-10s.

• Sluman (No. 18) posted an eagle for the second consecutive round.

• Recovering from a first-round 73, Bob Tway jumped from T95 to T23 with a 6-under-par 64 on Friday.

• More than likely, it will take four rounds in the 60s to win the 2009 U.S. Bank Championship. Hoch (1995 and 1997) is the only player to card a round in the 70s and go on to win the event in the 15-year history at Brown Deere Park.

• Sponsor exemption, Kyle Stanley, who turned professional after the U.S. Open, will make his third consecutive professional cut this week -- he finished T19 at the Travelers Championship, T34 at the John Deere Classic and sits T23 this week through 36 holes. Stanley turned professional following his junior year at Clemson University, where he was a two-time, first-team All-America selection.

• Derek Fathauer withdrew prior to the second round. Neal Lancaster withdrew after nine holes of the second round.

• Five of the six Champions Tour players in this week's U.S. Bank Championship field made the cut -- Ronnie Black (T65), Hoch (T23), Roberts (T31), Sluman (T8) and Tway (T23). Fred Funk was the lone Champions Tour player not to make the cut.