PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – No, your eyes are not deceiving you.

Alex Cejka did start the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am with a double eagle on the 10th hole at Monterey Peninsula Country Club. He had 240 yards for his approach and used a 3-wood.

The albatross has given Cejka a one-stroke lead over his playing partner Kevin Sutherland, who eagled No. 10, and Andres Romero, who is also playing Monterey Peninsula but started on the front nine.

Cejka’s double eagle is the first of 2011 and just the 11th since the start of the 2009 season.

Click here for Cejka’s first-round scorecard.

DOUBLE EAGLES IN 2010

DOUBLE EAGLES IN 2009

Andres Romero is a player to watch on Monday at TPC Boston. He started the week ranked 100th – 30 spots away from advancing to the BMW Championship – but the Argentine has put himself in the thick of things.

Romero started the final round at 11 under and was projected at No. 67 overnight. He made bogey at his first hole on Monday, though, and dropped to No. 71.

Romero, who became the PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year when he made it to East Lake in 2008, has 16 holes remaining to make up the ground he lost. You can keep checking on how many shots back the 29-year-old is as the afternoon progresses by clicking here.

Andres Romero came to TPC Boston with the highest ladder to climb since he was the last man in the field at No. 100.

The 30-year-old from Argentina is making a strong bid to hang around another week, too. He’s 2 under through six holes and has moved within two strokes of the lead.

Equally  important, Romero has moved up to 61st in the projected standings. He was 71st – one spot shy of the number that will advance to next week’s BMW Championship – after completing two rounds in 8 under so he needs to continue to play well.

Romero made it to THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola  in 2008 and proceeded to win PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year honors. A year ago, though, Romero ranked 125th entering the Wyndham Championship, which is the final event before the Playoffs. He opted not to play, essentially forfeiting his potential spot, to work on his game and fell to No. 132.

Andres Romero used a 6-iron to ace the par-3 eighth hole on Saturday. The hole is playing at 207 yards in the second round but is listed at 213 yards on the scorecard.

The hole-in-one moved Romero to 6 under for the tournament. A week ago, Romero had to drain a birdie putt of 40 feet, 6 inches on his 72nd hole at The Barclays in order to advance to this week’s event. Romero came in ranked 100th in points, the last man in the field.

The ace is the 30th on the PGA TOUR this year and the fifth in the history of the Deutsche Bank Championship. All five of those aces have come in the second round.

ACES AT THE DEUTSCHE BANK

Andres Romero has birdied four of his last five holes – and the flurry appears to have paid off with a trip to Boston.

The Argentine  rallied in a big way after making consecutive double bogeys at Nos. 12 and 13 before the birdie barrage began.

Romero shook off the frustration, though,  when he staked his approach to 13 inches at No. 14. He then made an 11-footer at No. 15, chipped in at the 17th and drained a 42-inch putt at the 18th hole.

When he finished, Romero had moved 15 spots to No. 100 in the FedExCup, which is the cutoff of the Deutsche Bank Championship.

After rounds of 71 and 68, Andres Romero was in good shape heading into today’s round at the AT&T National. Not anymore.

Romero has four bogeys and a double bogey through 15 holes, dropping him 43 spots on the leaderboard and into a tie for 60th at the moment. Should Romero par in, he’d shoot 76 and match his worst round of the year. -- Brian Wacker

Andres Romero, looking for his first TOUR win since breaking through in New Orleans two years ago, is the leader at 5 under through 12 holes.

Four players are tied at 4 under: Justin Rose (through 13 holes), Michael Letzig (through 13 holes, K.J. Choi (through 10 holes) and rookie Michael Sim (through 8 holes).

Among the notables on the course: Ernie Els (3 under), Phil Mickelson (2 under), Rory McIlroy (2 under), Vijay Singh (1 under) and Jim Furyk (1 under).