Eight cruise 66 into lead.Byline: Ron Bellamy "Rockin'" Ron Bellamy (born December 13, 1964) is an American professional boxer. He is the half-brother of former NBA center Walt Bellamy. Ron also started his career in basketball, playing collegiately at UNC-Charlotte and professionally in New Zealand and Europe. The Register-Guard JUNCTION CITY Junction City, city (1990 pop. 20,604), seat of Geary co., NE Kans., at the confluence of the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers; inc. 1859. The rail, trade, and processing center of an agricultural and dairy area, it grew as the supply point for nearby Fort Riley, - They won't need tee times at the Oregon Classic today, they'll need a starting gate starting gate n. Sports 1. A series of stalls with interconnected doors that open simultaneously at the beginning of a race. 2. , because the Nationwide Tour event at Shadow Hills Country Club has commenced as a horse race of almost unprecedented proportions. On a cloudy Thursday, which turned from drizzly and cold in the morning to just gray and cold in the afternoon, an amazing number of eight golfers shot rounds of 6-under-par 66 to share the first day lead in the $475,000 tournament on the 7,020-yard par 72 course. The Eight is Enough grouping matched the largest first-day leaderboard lead·er·board n. A board that displays the leaders in a competition. leaderboard Noun a board displaying the current scores of the leading competitors, esp in a golf tournament in Nationwide Tour history, set at the 2001 Ozarks Open, and surpassed the previous Oregon Classic record of four tied for the first-day lead, also at 66, in 2003. Among the leaders Thursday were the golfers you expected to see up there - Roland Thatcher Roland Churchil Thatcher (born April 11, 1977) is an American professional golfer. Thatcher was born in Hampton, Virginia. He had a successful stint at Auburn University in Alabama where he was an All-American and the Southeastern Conference golf champion. , the leading money winner on the Nationwide Tour, who has won twice this year, and Jason Day Jason Day (born 12 November 1987) is a part-Filipino Australian professional golfer. As an amateur, Day accumulated a great deal of success in Australia, twice being awarded the Australian Junior Order of Merit. , the 19-year-old Australian sensation who became the youngest player to win a PGA (1) (Professional Graphics Adapter) An early IBM PC display standard for 3D processing with 640x480x256 resolution. It was not widely used. (2) (Programmable Gate Array) See gate array and FPGA. Tour-sanctioned event and is third on the money list. But it was the most surprising member of the eight-player scrum who almost stole the show and, for that matter, the lead - Alex Prugh, a 23-year-old former University of Washington star The Washington Star, previously known as the Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, was a daily afternoon newspaper published in Washington, D.C. between 1852 and 1981. from Spokane who played his way into his first tournament as a professional by tying for third in Monday's qualifying at Emerald Valley. Playing in the last group of the day, and finishing in the gloaming after 7 o'clock, Prugh birdied seven of his first 14 holes to become the only golfer to reach 7 under Thursday. Bogeys on No. 16 and No. 17 cost him a chance to end the day alone atop the leaderboard, and he wasn't mollified by a finishing birdie on No. 18. "I just ended on a sour note," said Prugh, whose caddie was University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. golfer Eric Hastings, who grew up with Prugh in Spokane. "I just messed up and hit a couple of bad shots. You can't do that. Have two decent shots there and you can get it to 8 under easily." In both cases, Prugh said, he pulled shots to the short side of pin placements, finding the bunker on the par 3 16th, and finding rough with his approach shot on the 17th, and couldn't get up and down. "You can't short-side yourself," he said. "And I did it twice, and made two bogeys just like that." A two-time all-American and three-time all-Pac-10 player, Prugh was the 2005 Pacific Coast Amateur champion. He hadn't played Shadow Hills until a practice round Tuesday. "I just kept it in play off the tee real well," he said. "I made a couple of good putts early. I kept it play and kept making birdies." So, pretty much, did the rest of the leaders, on a day that Shadow Hills surrendered only five eagles, and none to the top eight players, a group that, in addition to Prugh, Day and Thatcher Thatch·er , Margaret Hilda. Baroness. Born 1925. British Conservative politician who served as prime minister (1979-1990). Her administration was marked by anti-inflationary measures, a brief war in the Falkland Islands (1982), and the passage of a included a former PGA Tour The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the USA's main professional golf tours. It is headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA. Its name is officially rendered in all caps as “PGA TOUR". winner, Mike Heinen William Michael Heinen, Jr. (born January 17, 1967) is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour. Heinen was born and raised in Rayne, Louisiana. ; a recent Nationwide Tour winner, Daniel Summerhays Daniel Summerhays (born December 2, 1983) is an American professional golfer. Summerhays attended Brigham Young University for 3 years where he was a first-team All-American as a Junior. ; yet another talented young Australian, Matthew Jones, and former PGA Tour players Kelly Grunewald and Todd Fischer Todd Richard Fischer (born September 15, 1960, in Columbus, Ohio) is a retired professional baseball player who played 1 season for the California Angels of Major League Baseball. . The field will be cut to the top 60 golfers, and ties, after today's second round. Playing in the drizzling mist of the morning, Day and Thatcher started the stampede to 6 under, finishing their rounds simultaneously. In fact, Day, on the 18th fairway, looked over to Thatcher, finishing his round on No. 9, and they waved at each other, knowing full well that they were atop the leaderboards. "We were waving at each other down the fairway," Day said. "We knew each other was hanging around." Thatcher, a win away from a direct promotion to the PGA Tour, leads Day by just more than $65,000 on the money list. "We'll be catching him soon, hopefully," Day said with a grin. Thatcher described their relationship as "comfortable." "We're not as acquainted with each other as I think we probably will be down the stretch here," he said. "We still have yet to be paired together this year, which is a strange thing. Above all, I have my eyes on him on the leaderboard, and I know he's got his eyes on me, so I think we've got a little connection with that going on. "I definitely think there's a healthy and friendly rivalry. It's good. ... I have a lot of respect for his golf game, as I know the rest of us do out here. It's fun, very fun." And then Thatcher added, with a laugh: "Not as much fun as if his name weren't on the board." Day took the lead, en route to his 20th score in the 60s in his last 30 rounds, with birdies on five of his first 10 holes. "I'm normally a pretty slow starter the first two rounds, and play better on the weekend," Day said. "I've put myself in good position. There are three more days, and I'm going to try to move forward each day, and we'll see how it goes at the end of the week." Thatcher, the 30-year-old Auburn grad who played on the PGA Tour in 2004 and 2005, began his round on the 10th hole and also started fast, with a pair of birdies out of the gate, and just one bogey in his round, which was somewhat of a scramble. "I didn't hit too many fairways today," Thatcher said. "I caught a lot of trees, and I wasn't the only one. These trees do hug the fairways. ... I didn't leave anything out there today. If I strike the ball that poorly the next three days I'm going to have to have some pretty special things happen." Aside from Prugh, the leader who has had the most interesting week had to be Grunewald. The 38-year-old Texan ranks 65th on the Nationwide Tour money list this year, with earnings of $72,906, having missed the cut in his last four tournaments. "I was playing really good and I took a week off and I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what happened," Grunewald said. "Apparently I took the wrong week off. But it's starting to come back now." A week ago, Grunewald got a new putter - a TaylorMade Rossa Daytona - and started using the logo of his ball to line up his putts. He said he was struggling to hit the ball here this week, not liking the way his clubs had been regripped recently, so he got them regripped again Thursday morning. By then, he had some momentum going: On Tuesday, he went fishing at the mouth of the Umpqua River The Umpqua River (UHMP-kwah) is a river on the Pacific coast of Oregon in the United States, approximately 111 mi (179 km) long. One of the prinicipal rivers of the Oregon coast, it drains an expansive network of valleys in the mountains west of the Cascade Range and south of the and landed a 25-pound salmon, "biggest fish I've ever caught." He filleted it that day - snacking on the sashimi as he went along - and had a big dinner planned Thursday night, where he could celebrate his victory - `an upset, big-time' - in the long-drive contest Wednesday night. And his place on a very crowded leaderboard. Alex Prugh, the only golfer to drop to 7 under par during the day, ended at 6 under with a gang of eight. OREGON CLASSIC LEADERBOARD Jason Day ... 32-34-66 Roland Thatcher ... 34-32-66 Todd Fischer ... 32-34-66 Kelly Grunewald ... 35-31-66 Daniel Summerhays ... 33-33-66 Matthew Jones ... 34-32-66 Mike Heinen ... 33-33-66 Alex Prugh ... 31-35-66 NOTABLES Chris Riley Chris J. Riley (born December 8, 1973) is an American golfer. Riley was born in San Diego, California. He attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he became the first four-year All-American in any sport. In 1995 he played for the United States in the Walker Cup. ... 35-35-70 Steve Pate Stephen Robert Pate (born May 26, 1961) is an American professional golfer who has played on both the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour. Pate was born in Ventura, California. He attended UCLA and was a member of the golf team. ... 36-35-71 Skip Kendall ... 36-35-71 Jason Allred ... 35-36-71 Liam Kendregan ... 35-36-71 Jonathan Moore ... 38-35-73 John Ellis ... 37-36-73 Scott Harrington ... 37-37-74 Gary Davis ... 40-44-84 |
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