That's more like it! Wind blowing for Open Day 2

Steve who? Marino's 68 could be

passport to fleeting fame

What is it about our Open that brings the best out of lesser lights from the US PGA Tour?
Steve Marino, 29 years old but hardly a household name in American golf, shot a two-under-par 68 in much more difficult, windy conditions at Turnberry for the second round.
Marino only got in the field when others dropped out and he had to get his father to fly from Virginia to Florida to pick up his son's passport and FedEx it to him as he played in last weekend's John Deere Classic.
Marino had never played a genuine links course until he encountered Turnberry but he felt that it was his kind of golf, keeping the ball under the wind and using a bit of imagination in club selection and production of the shots.
"I would consider myself a feel player," he said. "I kind of see shots before I hit them. I don't really hit the same shot every time. Over here, you kind of have to be that way a little bit and hit some low shots and some high shots and bounce them in there and use the slopes. I've really been enjoying the golf over here, for sure."
That Day 2 was a whole lot different from Day 1 can be judged by the difference in scores returned by Ben Curtis, another faceless American until he won the 2003 Open championship. He followed up an almost-leading 65 with a disastrous 80 for five-over-par 145. Will he qualify for the last two rounds? Difficult to judge with the way the weather is affecting some players such as Curtis.
Marino admitted that he had had a stroke of luck, in fact two of them! He holed out a sand wedge from 116 yards at the third , and did the same with a bunker shot at the sixth for another birdie. There also was a 30-footer for birdie at No. 5, not to mention a 20-footer for eagle at the 17th.
"It was probably one of the best scoring rounds I've ever had," Marino said. "There were points in the round where I felt I was one-putting every hole. I really don't think I could have shot one stroke less today, to be honest with you."
"We were hitting 3-woods into the wind from 210 yards," moaned left-hander Mike Weir, who struggled to a 78 after shooting 67 the previous day.
But it looked as though the afternoon starters -- Watson and Tiger Woods among them -- might be lucky with the weather changing in their favour.
be a nice break for those guys."
Overnight leader Miguel Angel Jimenez was four over par through 16 holes after he started to spray his shots into the long grass. Cue cigar-smoking advert!
But there are always some guys who can manufacture a score when its tough going.
Australian Daniel Gaunt had the best score among the early finishers - a 67, which was nine strokes better than his opening 76. England's Ross Fisher matched Marino with a 68.
"It suited me to have tough conditions," said Gaunt, a 30-year-old journeyman ranked 1,212th in the world but in position to make the cut with a 143. "I had nothing to lose after being 6 over yesterday. I'm delighted with that round."