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| June 22, 2003 | Sunday | Rabi-us-Sani 21,1424 |
Goosen closes gap on Baird
HARRISON, New York, June 21: South African Retief Goosen closed the gap on overnight leader Briny Baird to one stroke with a five-under-par 66 in the second round of the $5 million Buick Classic on Friday.
Baird, who led by three shots after a career-low 63 in the opening round, carded a 69 for a 10-under total of 132, one ahead of Goosen and two clear of Skip Kendall (66). Joey Sindelar (69) was in fourth place on 135.
World number one Tiger Woods (69), Japan’s Shigeki Maruyama (69), JL Lewis (68), Brad Faxon (67), Jonathan Kaye (66) and Tom Gillis (65) were all on 136, six under, at Westchester Country Club.
Baird, whose best performance in four years on the PGA Tour was a second-place finish at the 2001 John Deere Classic, had seven birdies on Friday but also recorded three bogeys and a double bogey.
The 31-year-old American is back on more familiar ground because he had never previously held the 18-hole lead.
Goosen, the 2001 U.S. Open champion, was one-over for the first eight holes but then eagled the par-five ninth for the second straight round. He also added four birdies on the back nine.
Sesecond round scores:
132 Briny Baird 63 69
133 Retief Goosen (South Africa) 67 66
134 Skip Kendall 68 66
135 Joey Sindelar 66 69
136 Shigeki Maruyama (Japan) 67 69, Tiger Woods 67 69, JL Lewis 68 68, Brad Faxon 69 67, Jonathan Kaye 70 66, Tom Gillis 71, 65
137 John Rollins 70 67, Steve Flesch 69 68, Fred Couples 69 68, Shaun Micheel 69 68
138 Scott Verplank 70 68, Vijay Singh (Fiji) 70 68, Woody Austin 74 64, Peter Lonard (Australia) 72 66, Jeff Brehaut 73 65, Steve Elkington (Australia) 69 69, Kent Jones 71 67, Carl Pettersson (Sweden) 71 67
139 Alex Cejka (Germany) 70 69, Ernie Els (South Africa) 68 71, Jim Furyk 66 73, John Riegger 71 68, Dudley Hart 70 69, Sergio Garcia (Spain) 70 69, JP Hayes 73 66, Kenichi Kuboya (Japan) 72 67.
DANE MASTERS COURSE
GLENEAGLES, (Scotland): Soren Kjeldsen made a bid to open Denmark’s account on this year’s European Tour by taking the lead in the Diageo championship, but high winds and the PGA Centenary course again dominated.
Kjeldsen is one of only four players to beat 70 this week, his four-under-par 68 earning him a one-shot second-round lead over Britain’s former Ryder Cup player Paul Broadhurst, who also carded 68.
Dutchman Rolf Muntz and Australian Brad Kennedy are two strokes behind.
But while the leaders escaped relatively unscathed it was not the case for the brunt of the field as the cut-off rose with the disruptive weather of the first two days and fearsome rough on a course that will stage the 2014 Ryder Cup.—Reuters
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