Verizon Heritage / PGA TOUR / April 16-19, 2009

Brian Gay is now the leader through his 14th hole in Round 2. He has birdied six of those fourteen holes, including five in a row on holes 4 through 9, for a front nine 30. He is now -5 for the day and -9 for the tournament. The Golf Channel is televising Rounds 1 and 2; CBS provides the weekend coverage beginning at 3 p.m. EST.

Brian's 30 on the front side has been eclipsed only by Craig Barlow, who shot 28 in 2003. By sheer coincidence, I met Craig on Wednesday when he joined John Riegger and me for lunch at Jennings Mill CC, site of this week's Nationwide Tour event in Athens, Georgia. He and John live about two miles from each other in Henderson, Nevada (just outside Las Vegas), but only see each other on tour!

Go Brian!



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Originally Posted by precision system Great
fingers crossed, keep us posted Yoda!!

I've rearranged my weekend lesson schedule and will be with Brian in his pre-round warmup and in his gallery for the round. Harbour Town Golf Links is tailor made for him, and I gotta see this one in person!

Originally Posted by mcflog
glad to see him playing well. looking forward to watching him some at the practice round at the Wach.... ..... I mean the Quail Hollow Championship.

mcflog,

I'll be at Quail Hollow the first part of the week with Curt Sanders, who is in on his exemption as Carolinas PGA Player of the Year. If you're there on any of those days, flag me down. I'd like to meet you!

I was last there in 1969, a young serviceman watching Dale Douglass win the Kemper Open.

Originally Posted by lencoo12 glad to see him playing well. looking forward to watching him some at the practice round at the Wach.... ..... I mean the Quail Hollow Championship

Third time's the charm, lencoo. That long-time PGA TOUR event held at Quail Hollow Country Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, is now (and through at least 2014) the Wells Fargo Championship. Whether or not the WF sponsorship will continue after that remains to be seen. One thing's for sure, they won't be there in 2017: Quail Hollow has been named the host club of the PGA Championship.

The Quail Hollow name was determined the 'flash point' of least resistance after Wells Fargo bought Wachovia, a recipient of federal funds under TARP (Troubled Assets Relief Program). In the environment created by the new administration, the Wells Fargo folks decided it was politically incorrect to publicize the sponsorship of a major sporting event, despite its long history of raising millions of dollars for charity. Happily, that cloud has now lifted.

My first experience with Quail Hollow was in 1969. I was a 22-year-old serviceman and had driven up from Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, South Carolina. Dale Douglass won by four that year, and I watched as he proudly lifted the trophy. It's inscription?

The Kemper Open.