Crowne Plaza Invitational: Second-Round Notebook  PGA TOUR Staff FORT WORTH, Texas -- Friday's second round at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial was called due to darkness at 8:03 p.m. CT. The 27 players still on the course will resume their position on the golf course at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, when they will complete their second rounds before tournament officials re-pair for the third round. The approximate starting time for the third round is 10:30 a.m.  A statue of Ben Hogan at Colonial Country Club. (WireImage)
• Clubhouse leader Tim Clark's 129 is one shot off the 36-hole tournament record. Kenny Perry opened with 65-63--128 in 2005 en route to claiming his second title at Colonial. • Clark used a good formula during his second round 64 on Friday: He hit 14 of 14 fairways and 18 of 18 greens. Clark is the only player in the field thus far to have done either of those in any round. The last time Clark pulled off this rare double was at the 2004 Deutsche Bank Championship in the second-round. • Should Clark wind up leading after the completion of 36 holes, it would be the second time in his career that he has been a leader or co-leader at the halfway point. Clark held a share of the 36-hole lead earlier this year at the Masters Tournament before finishing T13. • Jim Furyk's rounds of 65-66--131 ends a long drought for the world's third-ranked player. Furyk had not recorded a round in the 60s on the PGA TOUR since the opening round of The Honda Classic (69), a span of 19 rounds. • After withdrawing from the season opening Mercedes-Benz Championship, Arron Oberholser has made 10 consecutive cuts on the PGA TOUR this year, the longest such streak of his career. With rounds of 64-66--130, Oberholser has now carded nine of his past 13 rounds in the 60s. • Since the PGA TOUR began keeping statistics on scrambling in 1992, an amazing 14 out of 15 leaders at Colonial in that category have finished in the top six for the week, with the lone exception being K.J. Choi, who finished T17 in 2006. Through two days of play, Ben Curtis and Peter Lonard are the only two players who are batting 100 percent in scrambling as they are 8 for 8 and 10 for 10, respectively. • Nathan Green's rounds of 65-66--131 mark the first time on the 2007 PGA TOUR that he has opened a tournament with two rounds in the 60s. Green opened this event in 2006 with three straight 67s before a final-round 70 dropped him to T4. • Kevin Na's opening round 63 is the lowest round of his PGA TOUR career. His previous best was a 64 in the third round of the 2004 Booz Allen Classic. This marks the first time in his career that he has been a co-leader after the first round of a TOUR event. • Frank Lickliter II missed tying Wayne Levi's tournament front-nine scoring record on Friday morning when he made the turn at 29. Levi opened his final round in 1993 with a 28 on the front nine. Lickliter's nine actually included a bogey amongst seven birdies and a par on the par-4 sixth. • 2006 U.S. Amateur champion Richie Ramsay carded an opening round 69 on Friday morning. Ramsay is making his third PGA TOUR start as an amateur in 2007 (Masters Tournament, Verizon Heritage) and will be looking to become the first amateur to make the cut at Colonial since John Harris finished T50 in 1994. • While only three players have recorded 100 putts or less for a TOUR event in 2007, four players had fewer than 25 putts in their first round. Harrison Frazar (23 putts), Tim Clark (24), Will MacKenzie (24), and Pat Perez (24) are all in position to possibly finish with less than 100 putts on the week. • With Friday's second round being completed on Saturday morning, it marks the first time in the 2007 PGA TOUR season that a cut for a non-pro-am event will be determined on Saturday due to weather. Cuts at this year's FBR Open and Nissan Open fell on Saturday due only to darkness halting play on Friday.  Tim Clark sits at 11 under heading to the weekend. (Grayson/WireImage)
• Bogey-free first rounds were carded by Ben Curtis, Arron Oberholser, Jeff Quinney, Peter Lonard, Alex Cejka, Steve Elkington, John Senden, and Kirk Triplett. • 2007 EDS Byron Nelson Championship winner Scott Verplank completed an opening-round 70 on Friday morning. Verplank will be looking to become the first player to win the Nelson and the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial in the same year since Ben Hogan in 1946. • Brian Gay recorded the 20th hole-in-one in tournament history on Friday morning. Gay aced the par-3 eighth hole with a 7-iron from 167 yards. It was the first hole-in-one at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial since Shigeki Maruyama recorded one of his own on the same hole in 2003. • While scoring has been low this year at Colonial, amazingly there have only been two eagles recorded through the first two days of play. Along with Gay's hole-in-one, Todd Hamilton eagled the par-5 first in his opening round. • The 472-yard, par-4 fifth hole has played as the most difficult hole at Colonial Country Club in 22 of the past 24 years, with the lone exceptions being 2004 and 1994, where it played as fourth hardest and second hardest, respectively. The end to Colonial's dreaded "horseshoe" played to a first round average of 4.132, making it the third most difficult hole behind the par-3 fourth (3.237) and the par-4 15th (4.211). • Brad Faxon withdrew after the completion of his first round...Shigeki Maruyama withdrew after nine holes in his second round with a leg injury. • The first-round scoring average of 69.342 is the lowest opening-round average at the Crown Plaza Invitational at Colonial since 1983, when the PGA TOUR began keeping such statistics. This also ranks as the fifth-lowest first-round scoring average on the PGA TOUR thus far in 2007. Copyright 2007 PGATOUR.com. All rights reserved. |
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