British Open Scores
Friday
At Royal Lytham & St. Annes
Lytham St. Annes, England
Purse: $7.75 million
Yardage: 7,086; Par: 70
Second Round
a-amateur
Brandt Snedeker 66-64—130
Adam Scott 64-67—131
Tiger Woods 67-67—134
Thorbjorn Olesen 69-66—135
Paul Lawrie 65-71—136
Matt Kuchar 69-67—136
Graeme McDowell 67-69—136
Jason Dufner 70-66—136
Thomas Aiken 68-68—136
Ernie Els 67-70—137
Steven Alker 69-69—138
Luke Donald 70-68—138
Steve Stricker 67-71—138
James Morrison 68-70—138
Carl Pettersson 71-68—139
Simon Dyson 72-67—139
Toshinori Muto 67-72—139
Peter Hanson 67-72—139
Andres Romero 70-69—139
Mark Calcavecchia 71-68—139
Greg Chalmers 71-68—139
Simon Khan 70-69—139
Kyle Stanley 70-69—139
Bill Haas 71-68—139
Zach Johnson 65-74—139
Thomas Bjorn 70-69—139
Martin Laird 70-69—139
Louis Oosthuizen 72-68—140
Geoff Ogilvy 72-68—140
Retief Goosen 70-70—140
Ted Potter Jr. 69-71—140
Anirban Lahiri 68-72—140
Garth Mulroy 71-69—140
Thongchai Jaidee 69-71—140
Miguel Angel Jimenez 71-69—140
Jamie Donaldson 68-72—140
Ian Poulter 71-69—140
Bubba Watson 67-73—140
Dale Whitnell 71-69—140
Bob Estes 69-72—141
Lee Slattery 69-72—141
Hunter Mahan 70-71—141
John Senden 70-71—141
Francesco Molinari 69-72—141
Jeev Milkha Singh 70-71—141
Rafael Cabrera-Bello 70-71—141
Nick Watney 71-70—141
Yoshinori Fujimoto 71-70—141
Dustin Johnson 73-68—141
Warren Bennett 71-70—141
Greg Owen 71-71—142
Richard Sterne 69-73—142
Branden Grace 73-69—142
Harris English 71-71—142
Gonzalo Frndz-Cstno 71-71—142
Nicolas Colsaerts 65-77—142
Rory McIlroy 67-75—142
Padraig Harrington 70-72—142
Jim Furyk 72-70—142
Fredrik Jacobson 69-73—142
Alexander Noren 71-71—142
Justin Hicks 68-74—142
Matthew Baldwin 69-73—142
Rafael Echenique 73-69—142
Vijay Singh 70-72—142
Aaron Baddeley 71-71—142
Troy Matteson 70-72—142
Brendan Jones 69-74—143
Juvic Pagunsan 71-72—143
Pablo Larrazabal 73-70—143
Charles Howell III 72-71—143
Gary Woodland 73-70—143
K.J. Choi 70-73—143
Ross Fisher 72-71—143
Sang-moon Bae 72-71—143
Keegan Bradley 71-72—143
Rickie Fowler 71-72—143
Adilson Da Silva 69-74—143
John Daly 72-71—143
Chad Campbell 73-70—143
Lee Westwood 73-70—143
Tom Watson 71-72—143
Joost Luiten 73-70—143
Failed to Qualify
Nicholas Cullen 73-71—144
Marcel Siem 74-70—144
George Coetzee 74-70—144
Marcus Fraser 71-73—144
Mark Wilson 72-72—144
Anders Hansen 68-76—144
Koumei Oda 72-72—144
Marc Leishman 69-75—144
Jbe Kruger 68-76—144
Richie Ramsay 71-73—144
Raphael Jacquelin 72-72—144
Y.E. Yang 74-70—144
Justin Rose 74-70—144
Sergio Garcia 72-72—144
Charl Schwartzel 69-75—144
Steven Tiley 72-72—144
Aaron Townsend 70-74—144
Scott Pinckney 68-77—145
Tom Lehman 73-72—145
Gregory Havret 73-72—145
K.T. Kim 75-70—145
Bo Van Pelt 71-74—145
Morten Orum Madsen 74-71—145
David Duval 74-71—145
Stewart Cink 72-73—145
Steven O'Hara 74-72—146
Jonathan Byrd 74-72—146
Ashley Hall 71-75—146
Barry Lane 73-73—146
Sandy Lyle 74-72—146
Todd Hamilton 72-74—146
Alejandro Canizares 74-72—146
a-Alan Dunbar 75-71—146
Ryo Ishikawa 74-72—146
Martin Kaymer 77-69—146
Sam Walker 76-70—146
Michael Thompson 74-73—147
Toru Taniguchi 72-75—147
Robert Allenby 75-72—147
Stephen Ames 74-73—147
Darren Clarke 76-71—147
Daniel Chopra 73-74—147
Lucas Glover 72-76—148
Andrew Georgiou 74-74—148
Troy Kelly 72-76—148
Tadahiro Takayama 77-71—148
John Huh 75-73—148
Justin Leonard 75-73—148
Hiroyuki Fujita 76-72—148
Brad Kennedy 75-73—148
Chez Reavie 74-75—149
Ben Curtis 75-74—149
Trevor Immelman 74-75—149
Alvaro Quiros 74-75—149
Robert Rock 78-71—149
Johnson Wagner 73-76—149
Prayad Marksaeng 75-75—150
Kodai Ichihara 77-73—150
Davis Love III 71-79—150
Tim Clark 76-74—150
Kevin Na 73-77—150
Paul Casey 72-79—151
Phil Mickelson 73-78—151
Elliot Saltman 76-75—151
Angel Cabrera 71-81—152
James Driscoll 76-76—152
Paul Broadhurst 75-78—153
Richard Finch 74-79—153
Michael Hoey 79-75—154
Grant Veenstra 77-79—156
a-Manuel Trappel 74-83—157
Ian Keenan 76-83—159
Mardan Mamat 77-72—DQ
LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England — Brandt Snedeker plays fast and talks even faster, and he was on a roll Friday in the British Open. He raced up the leaderboard with five birdies in a seven-hole stretch, tied the 36-hole record for a major championship and looked like he was bent on running away from the field at Royal Lytham & St. Annes.
Not so fast.
Along came Adam Scott, playing cautiously and picking his spots for three birdies on the back nine to pull within one shot. Not far behind was Tiger Woods, sticking to a conservative game plan and delivering a dramatic finish by holing out from the bunker to set off a wild cheer from 6,000 spectators crammed into the bleachers.
As the second round ended, this Open was just getting started.
On another benign day when the only concern was pools forming in the bottom of pot bunkers from overnight rain, Snedeker became the latest player to match the course record at Royal Lytham with a 6-under 64 that gave him a one-shot lead.
He has yet to make a bogey over 36 holes, the first player to go bogey-free in the opening two rounds of a major since Woods won at St. Andrews in 2000. Snedeker's 10-under 130 tied the 36-hole record set by Nick Faldo in 1992 when he won the Open at Muirfield, and it broke by four shots the 36-hole record at Lytham.
Even more amazing? Snedeker hasn't hit into any of the 206 bunkers in two days.
"No bogeys around here is getting some good breaks and playing some pretty good golf," Snedeker said. "My mantra all week has been to get the ball on the greens as fast as possible. Once I'm on there, I have a pretty good hand for the speed of the greens. Just going to try and keep doing that over the weekend."
Snedeker has never made the cut in three previous trips to the British Open, though this brand of golf is nothing new. As a rookie on the PGA Tour in 2007, he was 10 under through 10 holes on the North Course at Torrey Pines before having to settle for a 61. He picked up his third win there this year by rallying from a seven-shot deficit on the last day.
"Brandt is a momentum-type guy, once he gets going and starting making putts and hitting shots," said Mark Calcavecchia, another player who doesn't waste time. "He plays quick and he's got the quick tempo and he putts quick. And they go in quick. That's awesome golf."
What does that get him?
"A whole lot of nothing," Snedeker said. "We've got 36 more holes to go. A lot can happen."
And that was before Scott, the 32-year-old Australian, began making his steady move up the leaderboard. He bogeyed the third hole for the second straight day, and then turned it around by smashing a 3-wood that bounced off a hillock to the right of the green on the par-5 seventh hole and set up a two-putt birdie. Scott opened the back nine with back-to-back birdies, and then hit two beautiful shots to 8 feet for another birdie on the 18th and a 67.
Scott, who had a 64 on Thursday, has never been in such good shape at a major going into the weekend.
"Why I've played good this week is kind of a culmination of everything I've done over the last couple of years," Scott said. "I feel like this is the path I've been going down, and just happens to have happened here that I've put myself in good position after two days at a major."
Much like Snedeker, though, he didn't reach much more into it.
"I think you look at the names that are five and six shots back, and it means even less," he said.
The biggest name was Woods.
Woods mapped out a strategy for navigating the bunkers of Royal Lytham, and not even a change in the weather — only a breath of wind — will take him away from that. He has hit driver only three times this week. On the par-5 11th, where several players hit driver for a chance to go for the green in two, Woods laid back with an iron. He pulled it into the rough, and it cost him. Woods had to get up-and-down from behind the green for a bogey.
That was his lone mistake, however. He holed an 18-foot birdie on the 16th hole, and then fooled by what little wind there was on the 18th, recovered by holing out from the greenside bunker with a shot that rolled into the cup for his second straight 67 and a 6-under 134.
"It wasn't as hard as it may have looked," Woods said. "Because I was on the up slope, I could take out that steepness coming off the bunker and land the ball on the flat. So just threw it up there, and I played about a cup outside the left and it landed on my spot and rolled to the right."
Woods will find out if his record in the majors still means anything. This was the eighth time he has opened a major with two rounds in the 60s, and he went on to win on the seven previous occasions.
