There’s a true worldwide flavour on the high of the nine-player leaderboard after the opening spherical of the Champions Tour occasion in California.
The log-jam at 4-under 68 consists of Australia’s Richard Inexperienced, Vijay Singh of Fiji, Kiwi Steven Alker, Mike Weir of Canada, India’s Arjun Atwal and South Korean Y.E. Yang
Add Individuals Jerry Kelly, Brian Homosexual and Dicky Delight to the combo and it is a league of countries.
Everybody within the subject will play one spherical at Pebble Seaside Golf Hyperlinks and one at Spyglass Hill Golf Course. The event encompasses a 36-hole minimize – a rarity on the PGA Tour Champions – as solely the highest 50 gamers and ties will proceed to the ultimate spherical Sunday at Pebble Seaside.
Homosexual moved into the solo lead at 5 underneath late in his spherical at Spyglass Hill Golf Course together with his fifth birdie of the day, however he instantly adopted it with a bogey to drop again to the pack.
The 9 leaders are one stroke forward of Lee Janzen, Justin Leonard, Alex Cejka of Germany, Jesper Parnevik of Sweden and Carlos Franco of Paraguay at 3-under 69.
Kelly, who continues to be trying to find his first win this season, has been a runner-up twice on the event. He was the one co-leader who went bogey-free on Friday, carding his 68 at Spyglass Hill.
“Cool, I find it irresistible. And normally Pebble goes decrease than Spy, so I am more than pleased about my place on Spy and simply getting a pair good days at Pebble and have some enjoyable,” Kelly stated.
Weir had a birdie and two consecutive bogeys by means of 5 holes at Pebble Seaside earlier than shifting into gear, responding with birdies on the par-5 sixth and the par-3 seventh earlier than including three on the again 9.
“I’ve nice associates down right here and it is simply my favorite course,” Weir stated of Pebble Seaside. “You play it in the present day the place it is heat and the ball’s chasing a bit bit with a northwest wind.
“We performed the opposite day the place it is sort of foggy and you’ve got a south wind and it sort of performed driver, 9-iron to No.9 and within the apply spherical I hit a driver, 4-iron. So that is what I like about Pebble, you employ each membership within the bag.”
Alker, final season’s Charles Schwab Cup winner, is fifth within the standings this 12 months. He began his spherical at Spyglass on the again 9 and had a string of three birdies earlier than ending his day with birdies at Nos. 8 and 9.
