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Louisiana Open second-round scores

Updated: March 25, 2005, 8:29 PM ET

Associated Press

BROUSSARD, La. -- Second-round scores from the $500,000 Louisiana Open at Le Triomphe Country Club:

Jeff Brehaut                69-66--135    9-under


Bill Lunde                  68-68--136    8-under
Mike Standly                67-69--136
Brett Wetterich             68-68--136
Vance Veazey                69-67--136

Brandt Snedeker             68-69--137    7-under
Ryan Hietala                66-71--137
Kyle Thompson               69-68--137
Bubba Watson                65-72--137
Jason Schultz               69-68--137
Richard S. Johnson          70-67--137
Kris Cox                    65-72--137

Joel Kribel                 70-68--138    6-under
Tom Scherrer                70-68--138
Tim O'Neal                  71-67--138
Steve Pleis                 72-66--138
Ricky Barnes                69-69--138

Kevin Durkin                69-70--139    5-under
Tom Carter                  72-67--139
Charley Hoffman             71-68--139
Sean O'Hair                 71-68--139
Troy Matteson               73-66--139
David Edwards               69-70--139

Scott Weatherly             70-70--140    4-under
Chad Collins                71-69--140
Mike Heinen                 70-70--140
Hunter Haas                 72-68--140
Danny Ellis                 70-70--140
Mathias Gronberg            70-70--140
Bubba Dickerson             69-71--140
Stephen Marino              74-66--140
Ken Duke                    71-69--140
Jeff Gove                   72-68--140
Dicky Pride                 71-69--140
Chris M. Anderson           70-70--140
David Branshaw              70-70--140
Anders Hultman              70-70--140

Brent Schwarzrock           71-70--141    3-under
Boo Weekley                 73-68--141
Andrew Johnson              69-72--141
Aaron Barber                71-70--141
Cliff Kresge                73-68--141
Will MacKenzie              69-72--141
Glen Day                    70-71--141
Wes Short, Jr.              70-71--141

Scott Petersen              73-69--142    2-under
Bill Haas                   73-69--142
Chris Tidland               71-71--142
Brenden Pappas              69-73--142
Garrett Willis              72-70--142
Camilo Villegas             73-69--142
Derek Lamely                72-70--142
Barry Cheesman              71-71--142
Jim Rutledge                70-72--142
Michael Long                70-72--142
Matt Davidson               71-71--142
Jim Carter                  73-69--142

Jon Mills                   71-72--143    1-under
Doug LaBelle II             71-72--143
Chris Nallen                74-69--143
Craig Bowden                70-73--143
David Berganio, Jr.         70-73--143
Erik Compton                72-71--143
Jaxon Brigman               70-73--143
Dan Olsen                   72-71--143
Marco Dawson                73-70--143
Bill Glasson                73-70--143
Daniel Fox                  70-73--143



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Jason Dufner                72-72--144    Even
Scott Gump                  71-73--144
Rob McKelvey                75-69--144
Tyler Williamson            73-71--144
Alan McLean                 71-73--144
Shane Bertsch               72-72--144
Jeff Freeman                75-69--144
David Morland IV            71-73--144
Craig Lile                  72-72--144
Ben Bates                   72-72--144
Pat Bates                   72-72--144
Brad Fabel                  77-67--144
Justin Bolli                74-70--144
Per-Ulrik Johansson         72-72--144
David Peoples               70-74--144
Andy Sanders                71-73--144

Scott Gutschewski           73-72--145    1-over
Scott Sterling              74-71--145
Carl Paulson                72-73--145
Joel Edwards                74-71--145

Tripp Isenhour              72-74--146    2-over
Spike McRoy                 73-73--146
Guy Boros                   73-73--146
Steven Alker                73-73--146
Sean Pacetti                76-70--146
Jason Caron                 70-76--146
Doug Garwood                73-73--146

Chris Couch                 73-74--147    3-over
Dave Christensen            73-74--147
Steve Larick                75-72--147
John Elliott                76-71--147
Sean Murphy                 73-74--147
Bradley Hughes              72-75--147
Kris Blanks                 73-74--147
Jim Lemon                   71-76--147

Mike Sposa                  78-70--148    4-over
Brendon de Jonge            74-74--148
Rick Price                  70-78--148
Greg Chalmers               77-71--148
Robin Freeman               76-72--148
John Morse                  73-75--148
David Hearn                 75-73--148
Rich Barcelo                77-71--148

Jeff Klauk                  76-73--149    5-over
Kyle Gallo                  74-75--149
Tim Wilkinson               76-73--149
Darron Stiles               72-77--149
Philip Schmitt              74-75--149
Deane Pappas                71-78--149
Pete Jordan                 76-73--149
Johnson Wagner              73-76--149
Jim McGovern                76-73--149
Rick Fehr                   72-77--149
Scott Dunlap                77-72--149

Keoke Cotner                75-75--150    6-over
Notah Begay III             76-74--150
Jeff Quinney                75-75--150

Ryan Armour                 81-70--151    7-over
David Sutherland            82-69--151
Boyd Summerhays             77-74--151
Patrick Moore               76-75--151
John Maginnes               73-78--151
Kevin Haefner               73-78--151

Greg Hiller                 75-77--152    8-over
Rob Nelson                  76-76--152
Jason Buha                  76-76--152

Derek Sanders               78-75--153    9-over
Greg Sonnier                77-76--153

Bryce Molder                78-76--154    10-over

Jon Babich                  78-77--155    11-over

Mike Donald                 78-78--156    12-over

Cliff Bailey                80-80--160    16-over

Second round to be continued on Saturday

Updated: March 25, 2005, 7:01 PM ET

Associated Press

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. - The 17th hole was still the only island green Friday on the TPC at Sawgrass.

But just barely.

The second round of The Players Championship lasted all of 44 minutes before rain saturated the Stadium Course and left half the fairways unplayable. Nearly seven hours later, officials had no choice but to send players home until 7 a.m. Saturday and figure out what to do next.

"The perfect scenario would be getting the second round in tomorrow," PGA Tour tournament director Mark Russell said. "We really haven't thought much beyond that."

Steve Jones, who opened with a 64 for a one-shot lead, won't play until noon Saturday.

This was the seventh time in 13 tournaments that weather halted play during a round, and it was the second straight week that Mother Nature had thrown a PGA Tour event into chaos. The first round of the Bay Hill Invitational was washed out after three hours, creating three marathon days until a Sunday finish.

Golf's fifth major might not be that lucky.

The forecast includes thunderstorms the rest of the week, and Russell wouldn't rule out anything - a 54-hole tournament for the first time in the 31-year history of The Players Championship, maybe even the first Tuesday finish on the PGA Tour in 25 years.

"We're keeping all our options open," he said.

Still undecided was whether the second round would resume at 7 a.m., or if it would start over. The 30 players on the course were not allowed to lift, clean and place their balls in the fairway. That means the entire second round would have to be played under those terms, even if balls were coated with mud. The only other option is to start over.

That would be welcome news for Ernie Els.

The Big Easy provided the usual dose of craziness for such a short day of work. He hit his opening tee shot so far to the right that it nearly landed in the caddie's parking lot. He blasted off pine straw back toward the fairway, and it took one bounce and struck Lee Janzen in the right hip.

Asked if he had ever been hit on the PGA Tour, Janzen replied, "And it wasn't an amateur?"

Els then missed the green with a sand wedge and was facing a 12-foot putt just to save bogey. If the round has to start anew, he would return to the first tee.

Skip Kendall and Joe Ogilvie were both 2 under for their rounds after two holes, with Kendall holing a 35-yard chip for eagle on the par-5 second. Those starts would be erased if officials deemed there was too much mud.

Most players were stunned that the tour did not allow them to lift, clean and place, especially with rain in the forecast through the weekend. Some already dealt with mud balls under sunny conditions Thursday, perhaps none worse thanRobert Allenby on the par-5 16th when he hit two in the water and made a triple-bogey 8.

"I aimed at the tree left of the green," he said. "It was closer to the 17th hole."

The PGA Tour prefers to play the ball down, although it is quick to go to lift, clean and place when it rains at regular tour events. Janzen was among those who believe The Players Championship gets special treatment.

"I guess if your philosophy is you're not going to play it up regardless because of what you think other governing bodies would do ...," Janzen said, referring to those who run the U.S. Open, British Open and the Masters.

"The mind-set is they would never play it up, so why would we? But I think if you've got conditions that are iffy and you need to play golf, then you need to do it."

Russell said officials decided to play the ball down because of a forecast that made it look like the northeastern tip of Florida would miss the heavy stuff.

"We thought there was a good possibility we'd get lucky," he said.

This year? Fat chance.

The grounds crew planned to work into the night and return at 4 a.m., with hopes of getting the course ready to resume the second round. Russell wants to play the ball down, "the way golf is meant to be played."

"But we're just going to have to look at the conditions and see what they dictate," he said.

The tour is certainly well-rehearsed for these conditions.

There was fog in San Diego, wind in Phoenix and rain just about everywhere else. The worst was the Nissan Open at Riviera, where it took four days to play 36 holes, and Adam Scott beat Chad Campbell in a one-hole playoff for a victory that didn't even count in the record books.

Players are getting accustomed to spending their time indoors, comparing locker rooms instead of scorecards.

"This has a bigger locker room, but Bay Hill was better because I live there,"Charles Howell III said.

Vijay Singh (67) ripped his opening tee shot down the middle on No. 10 when his day ended at 8:44 a.m.

Tiger Woods (70) worked on his game at the back of the range after the round was suspended Friday afternoon. Phil Mickelson (70) usually shows up four hours before the start of his round to work on his game. But when he arrived at Sawgrass in a steady rain, all he could was take his caddie to breakfast.

Singh tries to shrug off losses

Updated: March 25, 2005, 5:29 PM ET

By Tim Rosaforte | Golf World

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – The man has picked himself up and dusted himself off and is right back where we expected him to be after the opening round of The Players Championship. In contention once again, hunting down another victory, playing golf with supreme confidence, Vijay Singh has begun the process of putting himself in position to win a golf tournament. Five days after rinsing a 7-iron on the 72nd hole of Bay Hill, 12 days after missing a playoff putt the length of a table leg at the Honda, Singh shot an opening round 67 at TPC-Sawgrass to take the early lead over Tiger Woods, Ernie Els and Phil Mickelson in this week's Battle of the Big Four.

Instead of being demoralized, Singh hosted his party Monday night, poured liberally from his wine cellar and was his usual gracious self, laughing afterward about how the affair started from one or two guys to what now seems like the entire field. "It's just an outing that I like to invite my friends – and the players are all my friends – and my family," Singh said. "It's great to get together for once. I'm just happy I can do that."

You win 25 times on the PGA Tour and it's easier to serve Opus and put those demons from Mirasol and Arnie's Place behind you. But as machinelike as Singh can seem when he plays golf, he is human, too. He hasn't totally put behind him what happened in Orlando and Palm Beach Gardens. "I mean, it still plays on my mind," Singh admitted in his pre-tournament news conference. "It's nothing that you just kind of forget about a week later. It's disappointing … you get in a situation like that and then you give it away. People play all year to get into that position once and I've done it two weeks in a row."

The thinking is you shouldn't ascend to the No. 1 ranking after back-to-back blown tournaments, but Singh just keeps feeding the computer top-three finishes. In his last three tournaments, he finished third behind Tiger and Phil at Doral, then second twice on the tour's swing up the Florida Turnpike. If his putter were working the way it did in 2004, there would be no question of his position ahead of Woods.

But instead of obsessing about it, trying to "protect," Singh is just playing. He won nine times last year with that approach, overtaking Tiger at the Deutsche Bank Championship before Woods took the ranking back for two weeks after his victory at Doral. "Right now, my goal is to go out and win tournaments," he said. "I really do not worry about the No. 1 position, if it's going to be overtaken or not. If I'm No. 1, it's a great privilege, but it's not my ultimate goal."

Always dogged, Singh is trying a new approach to the Players. The TPC is his home course and the back end of the range should be named in his honor, but overall he has not played well at Sawgrass. The 67 tied his best start since 2001, when he finished second behind Woods. He missed back-to-back cuts in 2002 and 2003.

But that was yesterday and Singh is looking to tomorrow. The man might be bullheaded at times, but he learns from his mistakes and shakes them off as well as anybody in the game. "I've just taken a real relaxed attitude this week," he said. "I think I put too much pressure on myself this week to go out there and play well. This is a big event. I would say in the players' minds, it's a major event ... it'll be one of the biggest achievements of my career if I can win this thing."

Tim Rosaforte is a senior writer for Golf World magazine