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Aug
Fri

Media: 'I hear Tiger is ballin'

By John Strege Follow @JohnStrege!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); Tiger Woods' climb up the leaderboard in the second round of the PGA Championship surely boosted TNT's ratings on Friday, but its viewers did not include one prominent person: Tiger's niece, Cheyenne Woods. "I hear Tiger is ballin," she wrote on Twitter. "I'd be watching if I had cable smh. Twitter has been my only source for updates." SMH, for the uninitiated, stands for "Shaking My Head." Those of us who wonder why Tiger's niece, now a professional golfer who shares an agent, Mark Steinberg, with her uncle, does not have cable were also shaking our heads. So be it. Her Twitter followers kept her updated. Still, she missed watching Tiger's front-nine putting clinic that brought to mind his glory days and helped him secure a share of the 36-hole lead. Woods had one of the few decent scoring rounds on a difficult day in which there were more rounds in the 90s than the 60s (two to one), a one-under par 71. Early on, Peter Kostis on TNT indicated in this exchange with Bill Macatee that Woods might make a move on the field, given the windy conditions: "Tiger said he really was hoping for windy conditions," Macatee said. "So what are you looking for from Tiger the rest of the day?" "Anybody that's hoping for windy conditions, that's code for, 'I'm hitting pretty solidly. And I like the way my short game is working,'" Kostis said. "Without that, you really can't play this game. You have to be able to control your golf ball and the number one thing of controlling it is to hit it solid."Woods hit it well enough on Friday, but his putting was responsible for his leading. Related: Tiger Tips: Prepare to putt better Rory and the wind Rory McIlroy's aversion to wind was cited by Gary McCord on Friday after McIlroy missed the green at the par-3 fifth hole by a wide margin. "The only thing I worry about Rory is he tells everybody he doesn't like to play in the wind," McCord said. "If you're a world-class player you don't want anybody to know that you really don't like that, because they see wind like this they're going to go, he's going to go bye-bye." McCord was referring to McIlory's comments at the British Open at Royal St. George's in 2011. "There's no point in changing your game for one week a year," McIlroy said then. "That's the Open. You either deal with the weather or just wait for a year when it's nice. I'm looking forward to getting back to America and some nice conditions. I'd rather play when it's 80 degrees and sunny and not much wind." McIlroy shot a 75 in the second round. Related: McIlroy: "It's not by sort of golf" The complaint department Dan Jenkins of Golf Digest has cited this as the best lead ever written on a golf story, from Leonard Crawley of the Daily Telegraph in London: "Despite the abominable handling of the press luggage at the Zurich airport, the Swiss Open managed to get off to a rather decent start yesterday." We bring this up because of the numerous media complaints, many via Twitter, about long bus rides from Charleston to the Ocean Course. To wit: -- Steve DiMeglio of USA Today: "Things you can do on shuttle bus ride to Kiawah: Build Rome; read War and Peace three times; run two marathons" -- Art Spander: "Usain Bolt could have run to Jamaica in the 1 hr 45 mins it took press bus to go from Charleston to Kiawah Island" An LPGA operative, Mike Scanlan, weighed in (while boasting that the media receives clubhouse valet parking at the LPGA's Kraft Nabisco Championship): "Golf writers covering the PGA Championship putting on a clinic complaining about logistics. Can't overestimate the power of on-site parking." It's all about us, of course. Say what? On Thursday Ian Baker-Finch called the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island "a bucket-list course." On Friday, he said, "I hope we come back here again soon. I think it's tremendous." Jenkins might have been the voice of reason on this: "Let me make something clear. Great, photogenic course, but you can't have a major with only one road in and out for 30,000 people," he wrote on Twitter. On Twitter Paul Azinger: "If a players wearing white pants and white belt combo, they are one garment away from selling ice cream."

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Aug
Fri

Weeks removed from heartbreak, Scott giving himself another shot

By Dave Kindred Follow @DaveKindred !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. -- How strong was the wind? Flags cracked like bullwhips. Rain moved sideways. Sand lifted off the beach. Above the 16th hole, 22 pelicans in formation thought to fly east toward the Atlantic only to stall before asking headquarters for a new flight plan. Even as the birds banked west, Adam Scott, from deep in a bunker, flew a wedge shot that clunked off the flagstick, easy birdie.Scott is the Aussie charmer, 32 years old, handsome as an ocean sunrise, who gave away the British Open a month ago. He played brilliantly for all but the final four holes at Royal Lytham & St. Anne's, but in major-championship golf it's never good to hear a "but" after "brilliantly." Four successive bogeys left him a shot behind the winner, Ernie Els, and as nice as it was for the great man Els to win, even he felt a twinge of sympathy for Scott, of whom so much has been expected for so long.Related: Unfortunate final-round flameoutsQuickly now, Scott has put himself in the hunt again for his first major. He did it with a first-round 68 in this PGA Championship followed by Friday's 75, a number that's not as bad as it sounds, for this was a day nearly gone with the wind, "a matter of survival," to quote his playing partner Hunter Mahan, whose 80 was as bad as it sounds.Scott's birdie at the 16th was one of only three he managed Friday. Still, he was fine with the day's work. "I consider 75 kind of a par round of golf out there today," he said. "It's really very tough. I did a lot of good things. I hit a lot of fairways again. . . . But it is hard when you miss the greens. There are some severe spots, and I made a couple errors, but it's going to happen on a day like today. You've just to stick with it, keep grinding. . . .I'm not disappointed with 75."Related: Rich Lerner's Q&A with Adam ScottThe Ocean Course was angelic Thursday. It was devilish Friday. All those ledges and cliffs and slopes that didn't matter Thursday mattered a lot Friday when a ball's flight depended on both the striker's skill and the wind's caprices. Though hard by the sea, this piece of architect Pete Dye's genius is only a distant relative of British Isles links courses. Those you can play on the ground, running the ball low under the wind. This one, with elevated greens, must be played through the air. In trade, Dye provides the kindnesses of wide fairways and big greens.The place is so subtly treacherous that each of Scott's six bogeys Friday came without a shot that a layman would consider poorly struck. The fine line between birdie and bogey, as drawn on Dye's satanic blueprints, was best illustrated Friday at the 12th hole. It's a nice, little hole, a drive and wedge -- except there's a wetlands at the right edge of the green, and the flagstick was four steps from that edge, and that pelican-paralyzing wind came whooshing across from the left.Related: America's 20 Toughest CoursesSo Scott's wedge shot, poorly struck, no doubt, by his standards, drifted offline and into the water provided there as penalty for anyone so bold as to accept the architect's dare and fail.  Scott then dropped along the line of flight, put his fourth to 6 feet, and made the bogey putt -- the kind of shot-saving work that may not win majors on Friday but may help you come to Sunday's final four holes with a chance to win.The weekend is in Scott's mind. "I'm not feeling, now, the way I felt at Lytham," he said. There he felt in absolute control. The tournament was his to take. Not that he said any such thing, but he must have imagined -- who wouldn't? -- the claret jug in his hands, against his lips, his name engraved there forever. "But," he said here Friday, and this was a "but" of hope, "the feeling might come around on the weekend."It's 72 holes, it's four days, it's 280 shots, maybe a few less, maybe more. Winners can study how they won and find something important in every shot. Scott's bogey-making wedge at the 12th would be one of those. Another would be the 2-iron off Jean Otter's head.Jean Otter stood along the right side of the seventh fairway, Scott's 16th hole of the day. She's a middle-aged golf fan from Silver Spring, Md. She didn't see the Titleist headed her way. "If she'd seen it," her friend, Sue McNamara, said, "she'd have moved." Instead, Scott's shot, his second on the par 5, came down in the middle of Otter's head. It knocked her flat. For three or four minutes, Scott stopped play and crouched beside her, asking after her, apologizing, signing a golf glove for her.A doctor there, Kenneth Thomas, told Otter, "He owes you."  Had the ball followed its apparent flight plan, it would have bounced down a hill, across a walkway, and . . ."You saved him from going in the lagoon," McNamara said.Otter, on her back, blood on her forehead and arm, her eyes closed, said, "I told him, 'At least make a birdie.'"Scott left his third shot short (he said Otter's blood was on the ball) and made bogey. Still, he said, "It was a good break for me, because it kicked it just in the rough." It might otherwise have come to rest in that lagoon, a dismal swamp, home to double- and triple-bogeys."I hope she's going to be okay," Scott said later.Medics wrapped her head in a gauze bandage from the top of her hairdo to her chin. She walked to a cart and was taken to a first-aid station."I'll find out if she's all right," Scott said.He had her name and address."I'll send her a bunch of flowers," he said.And, come Sunday, if Adam Scott goes to the final four holes with a chance to win, Jean Otter might be asking him, again, for a birdie.

10

Aug
Fri

Singh's reconnaissance mission pays off

By Pete McDaniel KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. -- As strong winds whipped the white caps into a frenzied dance, the fortunes of those unfortunates in the Friday afternoon draw of the 94 th PGA Championship at Kiawah Island's Ocean Course appeared about as precarious as a dingy in rough seas.Photo by: Sam Greenwood/Getty Images "If they suspend play because it's too windy I'll kill somebody,'' said Rich Beem to no one in particular, only half jokingly. The 2002 PGA champ had just survived the blustery conditions in 76 strokes to straddle the projected cut line of four-over-par. He had also witnessed playing partner Vijay Singh carve out a 69 to finish at four under through 36 holes. It was certainly an impressive showing for a Hall of Famer who has been stranded on the lost island of Atlantis recently, having fallen out of the top-100 world ranking last year for the first time since 1989. "It was one of my better rounds,'' said the understated Singh, the PGA champion in 1998 and 2004. "I didn't strike the ball as good, but I scored really, really well. And that was the key.'' An old nemesis, poor putting, has been the main culprit sending Singh into a tailspin the past few years. That and some nagging injuries. He underwent right knee surgery to repair a torn meniscus in 2009 and that contributed to his finishing outside the top five on the money list for the first time in 12 seasons. On Thursday, though, putting kept him in the game. Related: Vijay Singh's swing sequence "I made some pretty nice saves even on the front nine,'' Singh said. "Six or seven footers, five footers. That's very important when in windy conditions, especially the way I've been putting or not been putting. I've putted really well the last two days and that's what's saved me.'' Singh had 26 putts Thursday when the wind impacted line and distance. Not bad for a player ranked 180th in strokes gained putting coming into the championship. Singh's resurgence actually started at the British Open, where he finished T-9 and continued in Canada, where he finished T-7. Last week while the top-ranked players were competing in the Bridgestone Invitational, Singh took a trip down South, and it wasn't because of a sudden craving for cheese grits and fried green tomatoes. His was a reconnaissance mission that lasted seven days. It included a round with Roger Warren, president of the Golf Resort at Kiawah Island and past-president of the PGA of America. Related: Golf Digest interview with Vijay Singh The pre-tournament work has served him well so far. "I came here last Wednesday and played a couple of days in pretty strong wind conditions,'' Singh said. "Not as strong as these but it kind of helped today. I've played this golf course twice in conditions like this, not that I was familiar with it but I kind of knew what to expect.'' Singh also credited the turnaround to an attitude adjustment. "I just started believing that I can do it,'' he said. "I was so negative for a long, long time. I finally started to believe that I could do what I'm doing on the driving range. A little tweak to my golf swing during the British Open kind of helped, as well.'' He refused to divulge what the nature of the tweak. "That's a secret,'' he said through a sly smile not seen on the 49-year-old's face in quite some time.

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Aug
Fri

Not always pretty but always exciting, Mickelson managed to hang around

By Bill Fields Follow @BillFields1 !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. - "Just tired," Phil Mickelson said to an associate after taking a while to exit the scoring trailer Friday afternoon. "You would be too if you were out there playing."The way Mickelson made his way around the Ocean Course, where it was a better day for kites than golf, it was understandable why he was bushed following the second round of the 94th PGA Championship.For the second straight day, he taxed the short game that has helped him to the World Golf Hall of Fame.For the second straight day, it came through.For the second straight day, he had 11 one-putt greens.Related: Phil Mickelson's tips to play your bestFor the first time since the Masters, following a T-65 at the U.S. Open and a missed cut at the British Open, Mickelson has reason for a little optimism on the weekend of a major championship.Mickelson's one-under 71 left him at even-par 144 through 36 holes, in T-24, six shots out of the lead after moving up 42 spots on the leader board when he left the windblown course early in the afternoon.While his play wasn't flawless, it was effective, especially given the challenging conditions. "I feel like I'm slowly getting better and my touch and feel and shotmaking are slowly coming back," said Mickelson, who has had only one top-10 finish since his strong run (T-3) at the Masters. "Even though I missed some shots today, I missed it on the side I needed to miss it. Although I didn't drive it well, I was able to advance it up by the green, and my short game saved me on a number of shots. To shoot under par today was a success."Related: Phil Mickelson's short game clinicHitting five fairways Thursday and six Friday, Mickelson often was not off by that much. Around the greens, he has been magical, getting up and down 7-of-11 times in the first round and 8-of-10 times Friday.He is a fan of the Pete Dye design. "I think the great thing about this course is if you play well and you hit good shots, you can make pars, you can make some birdies," Mickelson said. "And if you don't, you're going to make some big numbers, because it really does reward good shots and it penalizes bad ones."That's just not been the case these last couple of majors. You've hit great shots that have been brutally penalized, and here it is a wonderful set-up. The PGA of America really has it dialed in. There's plenty of room to play on this course. There's plenty of room to miss it and still have a shot."Thanks to some creative, resourceful golf, Mickelson still has a shot at the Wanamaker Trophy.

10

Aug
Fri

A painful day for club pro comes to a merciful end

By Ryan Herrington Follow @GWCampusInsider !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. -- When a club professional has the media waiting to talk to him after a round at the PGA Championship it usually means one of two things: He did something particularly impressive or particularly heartbreaking. For Doug Wade, the recently named head professional at Miami Valley GC in Dayton, Ohio, it was unfortunately the later Friday. Facing windier conditions than he can ever recall playing in, the 33-year-old Ohio State graduate playing in his first PGA limped home with a 21-over 93 in the second round at the Ocean Course to finish 36 holes at 32-over 176. (Photo by Getty Images)With a bogey on the final hole, his seventh of the day to go with four double bogeys and two triple bogeys, Wade finished one stroke shy of tying the record for the highest round ever shot in the PGA (94, carded by Gary Campbell in 1977 and Tom Dolby in 2002). Considering the circumstances, Wade was impressively calm and even self-deprecating when talking to reporters after such a trying round. Asked what was the best and worst part of the day, he quickly pointed out the former: "Finishing." "Today was rough," he continued. "The wind got to me. It's just a long day. You get out there and there's nowhere to hide." So when was the last time Wade could recall shooting a score that high? "I probably would have been about 14," he said. "It was before I got to high school." With the winds gusting upwards of 25 miles per hour throughout the round, on a golf course that's hardly forgiving on even a calm day, Wade never could get comfortable with any facet of his game. In particular, the wind flustered him on the greens, where he said he missed six putts inside four feet. "It's tough out there," said James Donaldson, Wade's playing partner, who was two under early in his round before finishing with a one-over 73. "If you're off your game, it's painful." Related: A tougher test awaits on Friday at KiawahThe humbling part of the experience? Two weeks earlier Wade shot a 65 in a PGA sectional event in Ohio, leaving him feeling confident about his game upon arriving in South Carolina, where roughly 30 friends and family were in attendance to see him play in his first major championship. "It's obviously disappointing, but there's nothing you can do," Wade said. "I wish I could have played better. But that's golf."

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Aug
Fri

Fowler doesn't do himself any favors at Kiawah

By Sam Weinman Follow @SamWeinman !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. -- The few exchanges Rickie Fowler has had with Davis Love III this week have been cordial but brief. When a player is on the Ryder Cup bubble, as Fowler is, the last thing he wants to do is seem like he's buttering up  the team captain."I don't want to make him feel like I'm trying to be buddy-buddy," Fowler said. "It's all been normal talk. It hasn't been like, 'Hey, you gonna pick me?'"At this point, especially after Friday, Fowler might not want to hear the answer. Entering the week in the 12th spot on the U.S. points list, Fowler's PGA Championship was upended by a bogey, double bogey, triple bogey stretch on the front nine that led to a second-round 80. The missed cut at the Ocean Course means that if the 23-year-old Fowler were to make his second-straight Ryder Cup team, he'll again have to rely on a captain's pick -- which even he admits would be a tough move for Love to make. "Right now probably not," Fowler said when asked if he would pick himself. "I've got a few scores on the wrong side of 80. I'm not playing bad, but I feel like there are a few times when one mistake has kind of compounded."With qualifying on points no longer an option, Fowler will have to play well enough in the two opening FedEx Cup playoff events, the Barclays and Deutsche Bank, to be one of the four wildcard selections Love announces on Sept. 4.  Maybe that's a longshot, but in Fowler's favor, he has some positive Ryder Cup experience to draw on. As one of Corey Pavin's four captain's picks in 2010, Fowler secured a crucial half point when he birdied the last four holes in his singles match against Eduardo Molinari. He also picked up his first tour win earlier this year at Quail Hollow.Related: Rich Lerner's Q&A with Rickie FowlerThe problem has been the last few months. He hasn't had a top 10 since May, and is a combined 39-over par in his last five tournaments. What it means is he's got some work to do before he tees it up again in less than two weeks. "I can't really pinpoint one thing. It'd be nice to roll in some more putts. Maybe I'll go buy a belly putter and work on that," he said with a smile.

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Aug
Fri

A tougher test awaits on Friday at Kiawah

By Ryan Herrington Follow @gwcampusinsider !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. -- Red numbers were in great supply Thursday at the Ocean Course: the 44 sub-par rounds shot was the most for the first day of play at the PGA Championship since 2006. Don¹t expect the same docile conditions today, however, as the one thing lacking at Kiawah Island in the opening round of play -- wind -- appears to be back on the job along the South Carolina coast.Before Bryce Molder, Matt Every and Bob Sowards even had a chance to begin the second round off the first hole this morning at 7:20, breezes of 15 miles per hour with gusts of 20 to 25 whipped through the course, winds stronger than almost at any point of Thursday's first round.Related: Kiawah ranks as America's Toughest Course "I had to laugh hearing all these people say how easy the pros made the course look yesterday," said Jim Archer, a Charleston-area resident volunteering this week. "No way that was going to happen again. It's like they were daring the weather gods to make the wind blow."The second round started on time despite overnight storms that soaked the Ocean Course with another half-inch of rain. The forecast calls for winds to increase to the 15-20 mph range with gust up to 30 mph. More ominously, though, there is a 60 percent chance of rain for the afternoon (as well as Saturday), with scattered showers and thunderstorms expected.

10

Aug
Fri

Fitness Friday: 10 Tips for Picking a Gym

Every week my colleague Ron Kaspriske, Golf Digest Fitness Editor, presents Fitness Friday on the Instruction Blog. This week he gives you 10 tips on finding a great gym for your golf workouts. Look for...

10

Aug
Fri

Friday's Birdies and Bogeys

Who were the winners and losers on Friday at the PGA Championship? Let's take a closer look with another edition of birdies and bogeys

09

Aug
Thu

What the stats project for Day 2 at the PGA Championship

By Brett Avery Follow @BWAvery !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); Seven notable second-round stats that indicate how the PGA Championship might unfold Friday at Kiawah Island's Ocean Course, provided by Golf World contributing writer Brett Avery, who compiles the Rank and File statistical sections for the magazine's coverage of the major championships and other significant events.  1. Once again the nation of Sweden finds itself collectively crossing its fingers, hoping to become the 19th country to claim a winner of one of the four major championships. Carl Pettersson (six-under-par 66) became the second Swede to lead a major this season, following the example of Peter Hanson through 54 holes of the Masters (he tied for third). Alex Noren, making his eighth career major after T-9 in last month's British Open, eagled the 16th en route to a 67. Pettersson has cracked the top 10 in a major only twice (2008 U.S. Open, T-6; '06 British Open, T-8). Swedes have finished second in a trio of majors: Jesper Parnevik in the 1994 and '97 British and Niclas Fasth in the '01 British. 2. The bogey-bogey-bogey-bogey finish by Joost Luiten of The Netherlands early in the afternoon squelched hopes for the 26th instance of a player shooting 63 in a major championship--or breaking the record with 62 or better. Luiten, who began his round at the 10th tee, also blew the possibility for the first time players shot 63 in majors in three consecutive seasons--and all in first rounds, no less. Rory McIlroy posted his in the 2010 U.S. Open at Congressional and Steve Stricker went low in last year's PGA at Atlanta AC. Luiten, making his third career start in a major, staggered to the clubhouse with a 68. Despite the disappointment, he bettered his major career low: 69s in the Open Championship last year (T-45) and this year (T-63). 3. One day is hardly a barometer, but a comparison of potential Ryder Cup players favors the European side. Only two of the top eight on the United States points list broke par (Keegan Bradley 68, Tiger Woods 69). By comparison, five of the top 10 on the two points lists used to select the European side cracked par (Rory McIlroy 67, Graeme McDowell 68, Peter Hanson and Justin Rose 69, Francesco Molinari 70). 4. There are 102 of the top 103 players in the World Ranking competing after the withdrawal of No. 56 Ben Crane. That makes this one of the strongest fields in the game's history. Yet if form in recent PGAs continues this week, there's a good chance the victor will emerge from outside the world top 100. Two of the last three victors claimed that distinction: Y.E. Yang was 110th in '09 and Keegan Bradley was 108th last year. Only one man outside the world top 100 ranked in the top 10 through the first day: John Daly at 219th, who placed T-5 last week in the Reno-Tahoe Open. That was Daly's best showing on the PGA Tour since he was second to Woods in the '05 WGC-American Express Championship at Harding Park. 5. Compared to the other major championships since '04, the PGA has crowned more winners who stood in the world top 10 entering the week they won. The PGA has had five: Vijay Singh in '04, Phil Mickelson in '05, Tiger Woods in '06 and '07 and Padraig Harrington in '08. (The Masters has had four, the British three and U.S. Open two). Only two guys in the world top 10 stood in the top-10 standings at Kiawah Island: McIlroy (ranked third) and Adam Scott (ranked seventh). 6. Staying with the Ryder Cup, the eight automatic U.S. selections will be determined when the last putt drops this week. Only one of the players around the bubble broke par Thursday: Dustin Johnson shot 71. Players will earn two points for every $1,000 earned this week. First prize of $1.445 million would be worth 2,890 points while solo 70th money of $15,000 would be worth 30. 7. Matt Kuchar (4,448.942) E (T-45) 8. Phil Mickelson (4,163.608) +1 (T-66)9. Hunter Mahan (4,082.228) E (T-45) 10. Steve Stricker (3,563.069) +2 (T-88) 11. Jim Furyk (3,318.116) E (T-45) 12. Rickie Fowler (3,313.338) +2 (T-88) 13. Brandt Snedeker (3,176.787) +5 (T-132) 14. Dustin Johnson (3,002.770) -1 (T-32) 15. Bo Van Pelt (2,952.981) +1 (T-66) 7. Since 2000, only two PGA winners did not collect a title on the PGA Tour earlier in the season: Shaun Micheel in '03 and Martin Kaymer in '10. (As an asterisk, European Tour regular Kaymer won the Abu Dhabi Championship in January '10). Of the 13 players who comprised the top 10 and ties through the first round at Kiawah Island, nine are winless this season: Aaron Baddeley, John Daly, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, Joost Luiten, Graeme McDowell, Alex Noren, Geoff Ogilvy, Adam Scott and Gary Woodland. The four victors are leader Pettersson (Heritage), Bradley (WGC-Bridgestone), McIlroy (Honda) and Scott Piercy (Canadian).