- FedExCup Points: 50,000
- Purse: $7.0 million
- Winning Share: $1,260,000
- Yards: 7,547
PGA TOUR Staff
LEMONT, Ill. -- Jonathan Byrd (64-69) is at 9 under par after Friday's second round of the BMW Championship and tied for the lead with Aaron Baddeley. Byrd has his 22 of 28 fairways for the first two days for a 78.57 percent, a marked improvement over his yearly average of 60.40 percent. Byrd ranks No. 127 on Driving Accuracy for the year.
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• Byrd is again near the top in putting. He ranks No. 2 on TOUR in Putting Average (28.49) for the year and has 53 putts (26.50 avg.) for the first two days.
• Part of Baddeley's (68-65) success the first two days can be traced to his iron play. The 2007 FBR Open winner has hit 28 of 36 (77.78 percent) greens in regulation thus far and is among the top-10 in that category this week. For the year, Baddeley ranks No. 184 in Greens in Regulation Percentage (59.21 percent). Baddeley is right on target for his putting -- he averages 28.27 putts per round for the year (ranks No. 4) and has 56 putts the first two days (28.0 avg.).
• Play was suspended from 9:11 to 11:58 a.m. CT (2 hours, 47 minutes) on Friday due to heavy storms that rolled through the area and dumped 9/10ths of aninch of rain on Cog Hill. Lift, clean and place rules were in effect for round two.
• Saturday's third round play will be in twosomes off the first tee starting at 7:50 a.m. CT. There is no 36-hole cut in this week's event.
• Steve Stricker finally drained a long putt Friday. Stricker rolled in six birdie putts through his first 11 holes today, five of which were inside of 5 feet and the other being 14' 8". The six birdie putts added up to 28' 8". His birdie putt on the par-3, 14th hole measured 45' 9".
• Maybe Steve Stricker can avoid playing the par-4 fourth hole on the weekend. He is 11 under par on the other 17 holes at Cog Hill G&CC through two days and 3 over par on the 433-yard hole. Stricker bogeyed the hole in round one after missing the green with his second shot and then misfiring on a par putt of 8' 8". On Friday, this year's winner at The Barclays pulled his tee shot into the left rough, hit a small tree branch on his second shot, put his third in front of the green and missed a bogey putt of 8' 9" to make double bogey.
• Aaron Baddeley finds himself atop the 36-hole leaderboard for the second straight week after being there only once in his first 139 career starts on the PGA TOUR. Baddeley shared the 36-hole lead with Retief Goosen at the 2003 Sony Open in Hawaii in his rookie season and hadn't been back on top until last week's Deutsche Bank Championship, where he shared the halfway point lead at TPC Boston with Rich Beem and Mike Weir at 9-under par. Baddeley went on to finish fifth last week and comes into this week No. 11 on the FedExCup points list.
• First-round leader Jonathan Byrd has held/shared the 36-hole lead four times previously in his PGA TOUR career. He went on to win the 2004 B.C. Open, tied for 44th at the 2004 Chrysler Championship, tied for 17th at the 2005 Southern Farm Bureau Classic and tied for fifth at the 2006 Canadian Open.
• Tiger Woods moved into contention Friday with his second 4-under-par 67. Woods is at 8-under 134 and tied for third place, one shot out of the lead. Woods is a three-time winner of this event and has been runner-up the past two years. A victory by Woods this week would tie him with Willie Anderson and Billy Casper as four-time champions. Walter Hagen holds the record with five wins between 1916 and 1932.
• Ian Poulter and Lucas Glover are the only players in the field to have missed a putt from inside 3 feet over the first two days of play. Every other player has made 100 percent of their putts of that distance. Poulter missed a par putt of 2' 11" on the par-3 sixth hole during the first round and Glover missed a par putt of 2 feet on the first hole (his 10th) during the first round.
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• Ernie Els did not make a putt longer than 4'7" during his opening-round 73 and his total distance of putts made was 39' 5". His average distance of putts made (for 18 holes) was 2' 2". During his second-round 67, Els' average distance of putts made was 7' 1" and his total distance of putts made was 127' 3". He also holed several putts longer than 10 feet during his second round, including a 29-foot birdie putt on No. 2, a 26' 8" birdie on No. 5, a 19' 10" birdie on No. 6, a 10' 3" par on No. 9 and a 13' 4" birdie putt on No. 12.
• Nathan Green was the last man in the field to make a bogey this week. Green went 30 holes before his first hiccup. He was 7 under par at the time he made a bogey 5 on the par-4 fourth hole on Friday. Green is No. 52 on the FedExCup points list and is tied for 12th, 4 under par through 36 holes.
• The 482-yard 13th hole is playing the toughest this week and is the toughest to hit in regulation. During the second round only 18 of 65 players hit the green in two (27.69 percent). Through two days, the hole is playing to a stroke average of 4.323.
• The BMW Championship is the third of four events in the inaugural PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup. The top 30 players in the point standings after this week will advance to the final event, THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola in Atlanta.
