AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am: Rd. 2 Notebook

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Feb. 8, 2008
By Stewart Moore, PGA TOUR Staff

PEBBLE BEACH, Callif. -- Tim Herron carded a second-round 69 on Friday and will now take a one-shot lead into Saturday's third round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.

Davis Love III is four shots off the lead in his return from ankle surgery. (Dunn/WireImage)

Inside the Numbers

36-Hole Leaderboard

Player	Score
1. Tim Herron (PH)	137 -7
T2. Robert Floyd	138 -6
T2. Michael Allen (SH)	138 -6
T2. J.B. Holmes (PB)	138 -6
T2. Nicholas Thompson (PB)	138 -6
T6. Jason Day (SH)	139 -5
T6. Peter Tomasulo (PH)	139 -5
T6. Mark Wilson (SH)	139 -5
T6. Dudley Hart (PH)	139 -5
T6. Jay Williamson (PH)	139 -5
T6. Jeff Quinney (PH)	139 -5

• Herron's 7-under 137 total is the highest 36-hole total for the leader at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am since Jim Furyk was at 137 in 2003. Furyk finished tied for fifth, five behind champion Davis Love III.

• Herron's play through 36 holes should catch no one by surprise as the four-time PGA TOUR winner has made 11 of 11 cuts at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am (including 1996, when the event was called after 36 holes), including a tie for third in 2003.

• This is the 10th time in Herron's PGA TOUR career that he has been a leader/co-leader through 36 holes. The last came at the 2006 PGA Championship, where he was in a four-way tie for the lead at the halfway point before finishing tied for 14th.

• The winner of the last four AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Ams has found himself no worse than tied for second through 36 holes. Reigning champ Phil Mickelson was tied for first with Jim Furyk, 2006 winner Arron Oberholser was in second place behind Mike Weir, 2005 champ Mickelson held the lead, and 2004 winner Vijay Singh was tied for second behind leader Luke Donald.

• First-round leader Kent Jones carded a second-round 74 on Friday and fell from first to a tie for 12th on the leaderboard. In fact, no players in the top four after Thursday wound up in the top 10 after Friday: Jones (tied for 12th), John Mallinger (tied for 22nd), Roland Thatcher (tied for 12th) and Brad Adamonis (tied for 64th).

• Through 36 holes this week, there are only seven players in the top 22 with at least one PGA TOUR title: Tim Herron (4), J.B. Holmes (2), Mark Wilson (1), Dudley Hart (2), Vijay Singh (31), Steve Lowery (2), and Jim McGovern (1).

• The AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am has not been historically kind to players seeking their first PGA TOUR title. Only five players since 1970 (and two since 1993) have made the AT&T their first win on the PGA TOUR: John Cook (1981), Steve Jones (1988), Brett Ogle (1993), Matt Gogel (2002) and Arron Oberholser (2006).

• Sponsor's exemption Robert Floyd has put together rounds of 68-70--138 and now finds himself tied for second through 36 holes. The last sponsor's exemption to win on the PGA TOUR was Jason Gore at the 2005 84 LUMBER Classic.

• Floyd is competing in his 20th career PGA TOUR event this week and second straight AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Of those 19 starts, his only made cut came as an amateur at the 1997 Doral-Ryder Open, where he finished tied for 40th.

• Floyd paired with Dudley Hart as an amateur to win the pro-am competition at the 1994 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Hart is one-shot behind his former amateur partner this week after rounds of 69-70--139.

• Hart is playing on a Major Medical Extension in 2008 and has 15 events to earn $485,931, which would combine with his 2007 earnings ($299,249) to equal No. 125 on the 2007 money list ($785,180). Hart was limited to 12 starts on the PGA TOUR last year after his wife Suzanne was diagnosed with a non-smoking related tumor in her lungs in May and subsequently had two-thirds of one of her lungs removed.

• J.B. Holmes, who won last week's FBR Open for his second PGA TOUR title, is tiede for second through 36 holes and is in position to possibly win the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and the FBR Open in the same year, which is exactly what Phil Mickelson pulled off in 2005.

• Four past champions of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am are competing this week: Vijay Singh (2004), Davis Love III (2001 and 2003), Phil Mickelson (1998, 2005, 2007) and Peter Jacobsen (1995).

• The best rounds of the day on Friday were Ryan Palmer's 65 at Pebble Beach, Tim Petrovic's 66 at Poppy Hills and Dustin Johnson's 68 at Spyglass. There were zero bogey-free rounds recorded on Friday over all three courses.