FBR Open: Second-round notebook

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Due to darkness, play was stopped at 6:10 p.m. Three players did not complete Round 2. Play to finish the second round will resume at 8:00 a.m. Saturday morning. There are currently 71 players at even-par 142. The cut will come Saturday morning at the completion of the second round.

• At 8 a.m. on Friday, nine players returned to the course to complete the first-round and finished at 8:39 a.m. The second-round started as scheduled at 7:40 a.m.

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Charley Hoffman is averaging more than 300 yards off the tee this week.

Inside the Numbers

36-Hole Leaderboard

Player Score 1. Nick Watney 133 -9 T2. Charley Hoffman 134 -8 T2. Matt Kuchar 134 -8 T2. James Nitties 134 -8 T5. Kenny Perry 135 -7 T5. Cameron Beckman 135 -7 T7. Ryan Moore 136 -6 T7. Brian Gay 136 -6 T7. Scott Piercy 136 -6

Note: Three players must finish the second round Saturday morning.

• In 395 rounds as a professional, Nick Watney has led or held a share of the lead eight times. In his only win on TOUR at the 2007 Zurich Classic of New Orleans, Watney led after 54 holes and maintained his lead to beat Ken Duke by three strokes. He also went on to tie for fifth at the 2008 Mercedes-Benz Championship, tied for 42nd at the 2007 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, finished sixth at the 2006 Wyndham Championship and tied for 39th at the 2005 Buick Open.

• Watney tied his third-best 36-hole score today, with rounds of 70-63 for a total of 133. He shot his second 63 of the 2009 season today and the third of his career. Watney shot 63 in the fourth round of the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic last week and in 2008 at the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. His round Friday included a pair of eagles on No. 13 and No. 15.

• Watney is making his fifth appearance in the FBR Open. His best finish at the event is a tie for 32nd in 2007. Before his second-round 63 Friday, his previous-best round at the FBR Open was a 66 in 2008.

• Charley Hoffman is playing in the 101st event of his PGA TOUR career and has never led at the end of the first, second, third or fourth rounds. It appeared Hoffman was going to lead after the second round until he bogeyed his final two holes. His only TOUR win came at the 2007 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, which is a five-round event. Hoffman was four strokes back heading into the final round of the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.

• Kenny Perry, playing in his 22nd straight FBR Open, shot a tournament personal-best round of 8-under 63 in the second round. Perry's previous best at the FBR Open was a 64 in 2002, which was also the year of his best finish (tie for second). Perry missed the cut at his first FBR Open in 1988 and has played every year since.

• The last time Perry put together wins in back-to-back seasons was in 1994 and 1995. Perry won three events in 2008 and played on the U.S. Ryder Cup team.

• Playing on a sixth Major Medical Extension for a disk injury, David Berganio Jr. has five events to earn $346,342 to earn Major Medical Extension status for the remainder of the 2009 season. Berganio missed the cut at the Sony Open in Hawaii in his first start of the season, but followed that with a tie for 34th at last week's Bob Hope Classic to earn $24,671.25. The FBR Open is his third of five events under the Major Medical Extension.

• Berganio has played in 133 PGA TOUR events since turning pro in 1993 and has earned $1,675,653 in that time. His last top-25 finish came in 2003, while his last top-10 was in 2002 when he lost in a playoff to Phil Mickelson at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. He played in five TOUR events as an amateur from 1991-1993. Including the 2009 FBR Open, Berganio now has 66 made cuts to 58 missed cuts over his career. Since 2002, Berganio had missed 27 cuts while making 23.

• Mickelson missed the cut (76-73-149) for the first time in a season opener since the 1989 Phoenix Open, when he was playing as an amateur.

• In each of the last two years, Mickelson has followed a missed cut with a win at his very next event. Mickelson missed only one of 21 cuts in 2008, but followed the missed cut at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am with a win the next week at the Northern Trust Open. In 2007, Mickelson missed the cut at the FBR Open and followed that up with a win the following week at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.

• In 20 trips to the FBR Open, Mickelson has now missed the cut three times as a professional (2001, 2007 and 2009) and twice as an amateur (1989 and 1992).

• Anthony Kim missed his first cut (73-73-146) since April 2008, when he missed the cut back-to-back at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans and the Shell Houston Open.

• The first-round scoring average of 71.356 was the highest since 2005 (74.145). Since 1987, there have only been six other years that had higher first-round averages.

• Ten of the 12 members of the 2008 U.S. Ryder Cup team are playing this week at the FBR Open along with U.S. Captain Paul Azinger. The only two not playing are Boo Weekley and Jim Furyk.

• Four of the top 10 players in the Official World Golf Rankings are playing in the FBR Open. As of Friday night, No. 4 Mickelson missed the cut, No. 6 Geoff Ogilvy was tied for 29th, No. 9 Kim missed the cut and No. 10 Camilo Villegas missed the cut.

• David Duval withdrew due to illness in the middle of the second round.