Travelers Championship: Second-Round Notebook  PGA TOUR Staff CROMWELL, Conn. -- Heavy rain suspended play in the second round of the Travelers Championship from 4:23 p.m. to 4:44 p.m. on Friday. Players were held in vans on the golf course. After the delay, there were isolated showers the rest of the day. • The cut came at 1-over-par 141 with 79 players advancing to weekend. It is the 13th time this year out of 23 stroke-play events with a cut that the cut has been over par.  David Toms holds the halfway lead for the 11th time in his PGA TOUR career. (Stan Badz/PGA TOUR/WireImage)
• David Toms (67-65--132) is at 8 under par and shares the lead with Jay Williamson heading into the weekend. This is the 11th time in his PGA TOUR career that Toms has held/shared the 36-hole lead and the first time since the 2006 Honda Classic (T3). Toms owns four victories when he has been in this position as a leader/co-leader -- 2004 FedEx St. Jude Classic, 2001 PGA Championship, 1999 Buick Challenge, 1999 Sprint International. • David Toms, who finished T5 last week at the U.S. Open, has finished in the top-10 six times this year out of 15 events entered. Two of those top-10s have come on TPC courses -- T8 at FBR Open (TPC Scottsdale) and third at Stanford St. Jude Championship (TPC Southwind). Two of his 12 victories have come on TPC courses, as he won the Stanford St. Jude Championship twice. • David Toms is making seventh start in the Travelers Championship, but his first since the 1999 event. His best finish is a T20 in 1998 after closing with 65. • Olin Browne missed the first part of the 2007 season due to torn ligaments in his left wrist. He opted for rest and rehab at the start of the season over surgery. His first start of the year was a missed cut at THE PLAYERS Championship. The next week, in his second start of the season, he finished T9 at the AT&T Classic. Browne has three PGA TOUR victories and two have come in the Northeast, including the 1998 Canon Greater Hartford Open. His other victory in the Northeast was the 2005 Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston, one year, nine months and 17 days ago. • Non-member Jay Williamson, who was given a spot in the field as a sponsors exemption, has recorded a pair of 66s and shares the 36-hole lead at the Travelers Championship. Williamson was a member of the PGA TOUR from 1995-96 and 1999-2006. In 2006, he played under a Major Medical Extension. His best finish on the TOUR is T3 at the 2003 BellSouth Classic. He has 15 top-10 finishes in 279 starts on the TOUR. The last time he finished in the top-10 was T10 at the 2005 BellSouth Classic • Jay Williamson shares the 36-hole lead for just the second time in his career on TOUR. The only other time he was a 36-hole leader was at the 1995 B.C. Open, when he shared the lead with four other players. He went on to finish T7 that week. • The best rounds of the day on Friday were 65s by Cameron Beckman, David Toms and Fred Funk; 66s by Jay Williamson and Corey Pavin; and 67s by Olin Browne, Steve Marino, Kevin Na and Charles Warren. • There were three eagles made on par 4s on Friday. David Toms sank an 84-yard san d wedge on No. 2; Olin Browne drained a 115-yard approach on No. 12, and David Branshaw sank a 42-foot, 11-inch putt on No. 15. • Daniel Chopra withdrew due to illness after 13 holes in Round 2. Chris Couch and Kyle Reifers were both disqualified after they signed incorrect scorecards after Round 1.
• Corey Pavin, who fired a 4-under 66 on Friday, has recorded five top-10 finishes at the Travelers Championship out of 14 career starts. In 2005, he finished eighth and in 2004, he was T6. Last year, Pavin won the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee. It was his first victory in over 10 years. He has a PGA TOUR victory in each of the last three decades, dating back to his first win at the 1984 Houston Coca-Cola Open. • The Tournament Players Course River Highlands is the seventh of 11 TPC courses the PGA TOUR will use as tournament courses for official TOUR events in 2007. • There were nine past champions in the field this week at the Travelers Championship and seven are playing on the weekend. The 1998 champion, Olin Browne, is the only one in the top-10, tied for fourth. Defending champion J.J. Henry made the cut on the number with a 1-over 141 total. Paul Azinger and Notah Begay were the only two past champions to miss the cut. Copyright 2007 PGATOUR.com. All rights reserved. |
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