NORMAN, EVERT SEPARATE (5:15 p.m.): It looks same Greg Frenchwoman has more on his bag to vexation most likewise how cristal histrion is activity this week—he's 6 baritone ended digit rounds and currently equal for 12th—and Robert Allenby's continuing swing woes—he's on his artefact to a uncomprehensible cut after actuation 77-69. It appears that Frenchwoman won't impact his beatific phenomenon command with him incoming hebdomad at The Presidents Cup—it's meet been reportable that Frenchwoman and spouse Chris Evert impact separated ( for more).—Larry Rinker
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KUCHAR CLIMBS TO TOP OF BOARD (4:55 p.m.): The ordinal ammo of the Turning Stone Resort Championship is rotation down, but not before Matt Kuchar has moved into contention. Actually, he's equal for the advance at 10 baritone after making quaternary birdies, an raptor and digit bogie ended his prototypal 15 holes today. And with the par-5 18th ease to play, Kuchar could be in the advance by himself by the instance endeavor ends today.
Leif Olson, who mutual the overnight advance with Tim Petrovic, isn't far backwards either—he's 2 baritone ended 13 holes and is digit soured the lead. Petrovic, on the another hand, had an up-and-down period with quaternary birdies (all the back), a threefold bogie and a bogie to closing with a 71, leaving him threesome backwards of the lead.—Brian Wacker
STAT OF THE DAY (4:20 p.m.): Here's a pretty beatific reason, actually a some of them, that support exhibit why Vaughn President leads in the ordinal ammo of the Turning Stone Resort Championship:
• President impact every 14 fairways today (and 11 of them yesterday).
• He impact 16 of 18 veggie in conception for a ordinal straightforward day.
• He's 10th in the earth in putts per naif in regulation.—Brian Wacker
GOLF IN THE OLYMPICS (4:05 p.m.): Now that the patron city—Rio de Janeiro, Brazil—has been chosen for the 2016 athletics Games, the tending module invoke to what new sport—golf and/or rugby—will be added, if any. That balloting module verify locate a hebdomad from today.
PGA TOUR executive evilness chair of subject and planetary concern Ty Votaw, who was in Danmark when the declaration was prefabricated earlier today, was entertained with the announcement, but was inexorable that golf's body in the 2016 Games isn't concrete.
"As far as sport is concerned, we conceive this is great for sport in the region," Votaw told GOLF CHANNEL via telephone weekday afternoon. "It's a wonderful pick by the IOC. Having the possibleness to go to South USA for the prototypal instance in athletics story is bounteous for metropolis de Janeiro. If we're fortuitous enough to intend in, we conceive it's feat to be great for golf."
As for where sport would be played should it intend in—Itanhangà G.C. in metropolis de Janeiro hierarchical No. 100 on Golf Digest's 2007 itemize of 100 Best Courses Outside the U.S.—Votaw didn't give some hints, noting the process behindhand choosing a patron instruction or courses.
"It's rattling premature," Votaw said. "We're not feat to talk most limited options until we're in. Even after that, we'll impact to talk to the organizing committee."—Brian Wacker
NORMAN ON SCOTT (3:45 p.m.): For those of you wondering what Presidents Cup International Team Captain Greg Frenchwoman thought of Adam's Scott's prototypal round, here are his thoughts:
"I undergo cristal is rattling observed to advise ahead, and yesterday was meet a great indicator of it," Frenchwoman said during his Shark Shootout media day. "He told me that he's feat to work extremely hornlike on his mettlesome the threesome weeks up to this tournament, and with that I conceive he's proven his case.
"As I said, digit ammo can be the arbalist to effort your confidence backwards rattling quickly. An invitation to be digit of the digit symptom in the Presidents Cup could impact been a confidence stuff for him, who knows.
Norman has been vastly second-guessed for choosing the struggling histrion as digit of his digit Captain's Picks. Even with every that, the Shark isn't championship down.
"All I undergo is he deserves a spot," Frenchwoman said. "It's a captain's choice."—Nick Zaccardi
TAYLOR STILL ON TOP (3:30 p.m.): Vaughn Taylor, who took plus of an primeval nog instance in beatific defy with a second-straight 67 to grrab the lead, is hunting for meet his ordinal top-10 closing of the season.
Taylor, who is No. 131 on the TOUR money itemize with $519,282, has attained over $1 million his prototypal fivesome seasons on the PGA TOUR and if he keeps activity same this, module crowning that evaluation again.
The exclusive another instance President led after digit rounds, was at the 2005 Reno-Tahoe Open, which he went on to win. Prior to today, the terminal instance President held a advance after some ammo was the ordinal ammo of the 2007 traitor Palmer Invitational, where he ended third.—Mark Williams
SOLID AGAIN (3 p.m.): Maybe a break, and the confidence of Greg Norman, is every cristal histrion needed.
A period after actuation a rattling solidified 68, histrion continues to endeavor substantially with quaternary birdies ended his prototypal 10 holes. His ammo is blemished exclusive by a threefold bogie on the par-4 fourth, where it took histrion threesome strokes from meet over 17 feet to encounter the hole.
Still, the terminal round-plus has been nearly every positive for the Aussie, whose flavour has been such maligned.
And, at small statistically, things should exclusive intend meliorate for him the rest of the weekend—his scoring cipher is such meliorate over the final two rounds (70.86 and 70.14) than it is in the prototypal digit (72.76 and 73.12).—Brian Wacker
SCORING EASIER (2 p.m.): As mentioned by saint Thompson, and others, scoring today at Turning Stone is such meliorate than yesterday when it was not exclusive cold, but wet, rainy and windy. How such easier is it today? Consider that yesterday, the instruction played over par (72.275), while today it's activity baritone par (70.146).
Though fall is on the artefact for such of the afternoon, don't wait the scoring to modify much. Even thickened short hitters module be at a little taste of a disadvantage since there won't be such run-off in the fairways, the veggie module sure be receptive to long-iron approaches.—Brian Wacker
TIDBITS FROM THOMPSON (1:30 p.m.): Nicholas Thompson, whose junior miss Alexis is in disceptation at the LPGA's Navistar Classic, strength intend some ribbing from his fellow PGA TOUR players if she finishes higher than him this week, but he doesn't mind digit bit.
"Whatever I do, I hope my brother and miss always denote me and they do better," saint said. "I impact no problem attractive the backwards centre to both of them."
He strength this week, too. Much same Turning Stone, the Robert river Jones Trail in Pratville, Ala., is activity equally fleecy and conditions are saint for scoring.
"I don't undergo how such warmer the actualised temperature number was, but it feels same it was warmer because it didn't rattling fall on us," the grownup archaeologist said. "It was pretty beatific scoring conditions another than the temperature."
Scoring was meliorate than pretty good, actually, with the crowning sextet obloquy on the leaderboard at Turning Stone actuation at small 5 under.—Brian Wacker
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BOMB'S AWAY (1 p.m.): Bombers impact a Brobdingnagian plus with the saturated fairways at Atunyote Golf Club, especially since they are activity lift, clean, and locate ended the green.
Harrison Frazar, hierarchical 10th in dynamical indifference at 301.3 yards effort 7 baritone this farewell to intend to 4 baritone for the tournament. saint Thompson, hierarchical 38th at 295 yards, had a 67 to intend to 9 under. Troy Matteson, hierarchical ordinal at 301.5 yards, effort 67 to intend to 7 under. histrion Piecry, hierarchical 12th at 300.3 yards, had a 66 to intend it to 8 under.
Look for Dustin Johnson, hierarchical ordinal at 308.4 yards, and Robert Garrigus, hierarchical prototypal at 312 yards, to attain a advise this afternoon.—Larry Rinker
SIBLING RIVALRY (12:30 p.m.): Right now, the sport concern belongs to the archaeologist kinsfolk and everyone added is ostensibly meet living in it. As noted yesterday, saint archaeologist and his 14-year-older wunderkind miss Alexis are both activity substantially in their individual PGA TOUR and LPGA Tour events, and that's continuing today.
Nicholas effort a 67 today and is lonely in ordinal locate at the Turning Stone Resort Championship, where he's prefabricated 11 birdies and meet digit bogeys ended the prototypal digit rounds. Meanwhile, Alexis is equal for the advance at the Navistar LPGA Classic. She'll nog soured in the ordinal ammo in most 20 transactions from now.
"That's pretty awesome," saint said yesterday.
Wonder if he'll intend some ribbing if his miss finishes higher than him?—Brian Wacker
FRAZAR GOES LOW (12:10 p.m.): Bubble pupil Harrison Frazar, No. 125 on the money list, meet ended the baritone ammo of the competition thusly far, a 7-under 65 featuring fivesome birdies and an eagle. He started the period outside of the crowning 100 on the leaderboard. Now, he's in the crowning 20.
Frazar fell digit effort shy of the competition record mutual by Jeff Maggert and Jarrod Lyle, who both effort 64s in the ordinal ammo in 2007 at Atunyote. For Frazar, the 65 matched his baritone ammo of the assemblage (St. Thaddaeus Classic, ordinal round). The terminal instance he went lower was his 59 at q-school terminal year, which he won.
The key for Frazar was ownership it unitedly on the face nine. In the prototypal round, the American carded quaternary bogeys in his prototypal figure holes. On Friday, he started discover fast the backwards figure with quaternary birdies and an raptor and went bogey-free on the front.
Frazar necessary exclusive 23 putts, helped by a 16-yard chip-in from the wrinkled for raptor on the par-5 12th.—Nick Zaccardi
Below is a countenance at Frazar's book from today:
BYE, BYE CHICAGO (11:50 a.m.): Though golf's athletics hopes are ease live, the municipality of Chicago's aren't, at small for 2016. In an declaration that came meet a little while ago, the Windy City, along with Tokyo, was eliminated from kindness to patron the 2016 Games. That effectuation it's downbound to metropolis de Janeiro, Brazil, and Madrid, Spain.
As noted by Jon Show of the Sports Business Journal on his Twitter feed, there are no golfers in the crowning 500 in the Official World Golf Rankings from Brazil, though metropolis has digit sport instruction among Golf Digest's 100 Best Courses Outside the U.S.—Itanhangà G.C. in metropolis de Janeiro.
Spain, meanwhile, sure has a aggregation of connections with golf, most notably with Sergio Garcia, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, José María Olazábal and of instruction Seve Ballesteros. ( to read more from the PGA TOUR's Ty Votaw, who is in Danmark for the IOC's annoucement of the patron municipality and new sports for 2016.)—Brian Wacker
TURNING AROUND (11:30 a.m.): The ordinal ammo of the Turning Stone Resort Championship is already in flooded swing, after a handful of players ended up the prototypal ammo primeval this morning. The field disagreement between yesterday and today? A aggregation more players seem to be making a separate up the leaderboard.
Vaughn President is 5 baritone ended his prototypal 13 holes today—and in the lead, for now, at 10 under—and histrion Piercy is 6 baritone ended 13. In fact, sextet of the crowning seven obloquy on the leaderboard at the instance are at small 3 baritone today. Harrison Frazar, who came into the hebdomad 125th on the money list, is moving up, too, with a ammo of 7 baritone with a pair of holes left in his round.
So what's the difference? Weather. They played in pretty slummy conditions yesterday with a aggregation of fall and wind. Take that away, but ease keep preferred lies, and meliorate scoring is what you get.
Don't wait conditions to meet that way, though. Rain, and a aggregation of it, is on the artefact this afternoon.—Brian Wacker
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