Day, Snedeker tied for lead at Deutsche, Woods makes cut
Jason Day and Brandt Snedeker played in far different conditions Saturday and wound up with a share of the lead halfway through the Deutsche Bank Championship at Norton, Mass.
Snedeker went from the rain showers of Hurricane Earl to breezy conditions Saturday morning in his second round and had a 7-under 64. The wind got stronger throughout the afternoon for Day, who did well to shoot 67 and join Snedeker atop the leaderboard.
For all the fretting over weather giving half the field a good break, it turned out to be a push. Of the top 18 on the leaderboard, it was evenly split with players who had to cope with rain and who got the worst of the wind.
Tiger Woods turned his game around at the right time.
In jeopardy of missing the cut and missing out on the rest of the FedEx Cup playoffs, Woods didn't hit a bad shot through six holes and played bogey-free for the first time in more than a year for a 6-under 65 that left him in the middle of the pack. Woods, who started in a tie for 87th, moved up to a tie for 29th and was 7 shots behind with 36 holes to play.
Day, in the 36-hole lead for the second straight week in these playoffs, and Snedeker were at 12-under 130. They were 1 shot ahead of FedEx Cup leader Matt Kuchar (65) and Charley Hoffman (67), with Luke Donald (67) another shot behind.
Defending champion Steve Stricker (68) made it through another round without a bogey and was at 9-under 133, while Phil Mickelson (65) started hitting fairways and making putts and was in the group at 8 under.
First Tee Open: Ted Schulz shot an 8-under 64 - his best competitive round in nearly 20 years - at Pebble Beach on Saturday to take a 3-stroke lead over first-lead leader Mark Calcavecchia and Tom Kite in the First Tee Open. The 50-year-old Schulz, a two-time PGA Tour winner who has only conditional status on the Champions Tour, had 9 birdies - all from 15 feet or closer - and 1 bogey in the second round to reach 12-under 132.
Calcavecchia, who held a 2-stroke over Tom Pernice Jr., after an opening round 64 at Del Monte, had a 71 at Pebble Beach. Kite shot a 68, also at Pebble Beach.
Pernice was 8 under after a 70 at Del Monte.
Two-time defending champion Jeff Sluman was 5 under after a 71 at Pebble Beach.
The seventh annual event, which pairs 78 Champions Tour players with juniors in a pro-junior division, concludes Sunday at Pebble Beach.
European Masters: Spain's Miguel Angel Jimenez shot a 3-under 68 to take a 3-stroke lead into the final round of the European Masters at Crans-sur-Sierre, Switzerland. Jimenez, coming off a course-record 61 on Friday, called a 1-stroke penalty on himself after marking his ball on the 10th fairway. He mistakenly thought he was allowed to lift, clean and place his ball because of wet conditions.
The 46-year-old Jimenez, a two-time winner this year, has 17 under. Italy's Edoardo Molinari, the Johnnie Walker winner last week in Scotland, was second after a 68.