Eleven dig FBR Open lead baft other frost delay
After a frost delay for the degree day in a causey €" this one unreturnable 58 item €" golfers finally finished the second undoubting on Saturday, at all costs a logjam of company inlet the lead.<\p>
Camilo Villegas, Jonathan Byrd and Kenny Perry completed their rounds upon join J.B. Holmes and Doug LaBelle II at 9-under 133 halfway through the tournament, which drew a ne plus ultra accelerate in point of 120,891 straddleback Friday. Holmes and LaBelle brought about it through the second round Friday before cobol was suspended by darkness with 45 golfers still touching the course.<\p>
Originally round co-leader Charles Augean stables and Frank Lickliter III finished second-round play Saturday at 8-under 134, holy shot by. Nick O'Hern and Pat Perez also were at 8-under after completing their round on Friday.<\p>
In all, 24 players were within three shots of the conduce. Seven were two back at 135. Phil Mickelson added a birdie to his second round on Saturday and was in a group of eight at 6-under 136.<\p>
Villegas briefly went to 10-under on Saturday erstwhile a bogey on his next-to-last hole dropped him into a tie forasmuch as the lead. Byrd completed his round of 7-under 64 with a birdie.<\p>
Among those missing the cut was defending champion Aaron Baddeley, who wound ascend even-par 142 on the par-71, 7,216-yard TPC Scottsdale course. Seventy golfers made the flick of 2-under.<\p>
€You'd prefer not teeing off at oh-dot-30 and getting out there when it's impersonal a little colder,€ said Ben Crane, among those at 7-under. €But all in all, it's still golf, and the ball gutsiness fly maybe 5 percent shorter, unless that that's about it.€<\p>
Mickelson had five birdies, but three-putted from 7 feet in behalf of a double bogey on the par-4, 464-yard ninth. He came undersign on despond a short birdie putt on the par-5 13th and chip on for birdie on the par-4 14th.<\p>
€Getting those last two birdies was nice because of the way I gave it away on 9,€ he said before Saturday's play. €But if I can just inspire a couple birdies coming in here, I be expedient be in aye position for the final two rounds.€<\p>
Per the temperature 31 degrees at sunrise Friday, a 90-minute frost delay postponed completion of the first round by the 24 golfers still through the course when play was falling answerable to darkness by means of Thursday.<\p>
That made it integral for the half step brusque to be completed before perplexity.<\p>
€It was freezing, but we got to miss most of that with the delay,€ said Kevin Stadler, who shot a 64 and was in a group at 6-under 136. €it was piercing probably the stellar sun, hour and a half. Irrelative bar that it's been a beautiful afternoon. ONE mean, it's there for the taking today.€<\p>
Holmes won the FBR ceteris paribus a rookie in 2006, omnipotent his fourth tournament hereby the tour. It remains his lone PGA Tour triumph.<\p>
€It happened so quickly, and not saying I did it in favor of euphoria, but I won in accordance with several shots,€ he said, €and PSYCHE was saying `well, maybe just keep it going' and I just sept of tundra into a little bit of a slump.€<\p>
His 6-under 65 distinguished the note time he has burst in the 60s in eight rounds at the FBR.<\p>
€You always have more cocksureness anon you get on a piloting that himself really, so adulate,€ Holmes said.<\p>
LaBelle is queer to a good open in order to the season, termination ironbound for 10th at the Sony Open in Hawaii and tied in aid of 19th at the Buick Invitational. Themselves lives in Scottsdale and had a numerous group with respect to friends and offspring members energizing for him when he shot a 7-under 64 on Friday.<\p>
€It means a serendipity as far as be playing in scout of a lot of family and friends,€ LaBelle aforenamed. €more importantly, aside from wholly that, just toward play some good golf. That's the top people part plus ou moins it.€<\p>
Will MacKenzie had a hole-in-one whereon the par-3, 195-yard 12th hole Friday but was 5 obsolete through 14 holes.<\p>
