SENIOR OPEN REPORT, SCORES
Langer shares halfway lead with Pavin at Carnoustie
FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Bernhard Langer shares the halfway lead with Corey Pavin at The Senior Open Championship presented by MasterCard as both players seek a first Major in the over-50 ranks.
Germany's Langer has twice won the Champions Tour Order of Merit, but despite seven top-ten finishes in Senior Majors he is yet to add to the two Masters Tournaments he won in 1985 and 1993.
He added a level par 71 to his opening 67 to remain four under, and was joined by Pavin - who by contrast is playing in his first Senior Major - as the US Ryder Cup Captain signed for a second consecutive 69.
It could have been better for Langer - he hit a five iron to 50 feet and two putted for birdie at the sixth, then converted from seven feet for another gain at the next.
But he came unstuck on both par 3S on the inward nine - first misjudging the wind at the 13th and ending up in a pot bunker, then three-putting from off the green at the 16th.
"I was very pleased with my driving of the ball. My tee shots were solid and I hit a lot of fairways and I really put myself in a good position off the tee but didn't take advantage," said Langer - fourth in this event for the last two years.
"The short game wasn't quite as good. I didn't make as many putts today, and some of those putts off the green didn't get close enough. Plus, I saw the wind was blowing a little harder and it was blowing all day long.
"I was hoping maybe the last couple of hours, sometimes the wind drops in the evening, but it didn't drop today. It's been blowing the whole day and it makes links golf that much harder. Just a lot of crosswinds out there where you have to fight the bunkers and the water (the burns) and it's hard to get the ball close to some of the pins when you have crosswinds.
"Overall, I'm pretty pleased. I wish I would have made one or two more putts, but generally, I played quite well, and I'm happy with that."
Pavin could also have pulled further away from the field - he had four unanswered birdies when he reached the 18th, but hooked a five wood out of bounds and ran up a double bogey.
"I hit some good shots," he said. "The shot on 16 was a pretty good shot, obviously - it was good execution.
"It's the kind of course you need to hit some good shots out there. I hit a really good shot into 17 I thought might be reasonably close and ended up 40 feet away. You hit a lot of shots like that in links style golf.
"You can hit some shots that you kind of hit it a little thin and then they run up and end up pretty good. That's the good fun about it."
Wales' Ian Woosnam returned to form with a 67 to move into a share of third on three under, alongside American trio Jay Haas, Dan Forsman and Larry Mize.
"I think yesterday I finished with a birdie and I just had a little click on the swing there the last couple of swings I had, and so thought I would take that out today," said Woosnam.
"There wasn't much wind and that can be a little bit more of a chance to get into a bit of a rhythm, as well."
THIS PART OF THE ARTICLE WAS NOT TAKEN FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Corey Pavin, during his post-round interview, talked about how the over-50s players would like their own version of the Ryder Cup match.
Andy Stubbs, the European Senior Tour's managing director, said he rather likes the concept too, but financial backers are not exactly thick on the ground right now.
Stubbs said: "The idea of getting a match together is something the [US] Champions Tour and ourselves have talked about. It's just that the economy has been wrong for us recently. These things cost a lot of money to put on and you need a sponsor, but we would like to see it as soon as possible."
If Pavin's second successive 69 on a course with Carnoustie's miserly reputation backed the argument that his generation can still produce golf of a standard worth crossing continents to see, then so, too, did the scores of the six other former Ryder Cup captains in the field.
The most significant was the 71 posted by Bernhard Langer, a characteristically tenacious performance that gave the German a share of the lead with Pavin at the tournament's mid-point. However, there was also a stunning 67 from Ian Woosnam, who moved into a tie for third place with Dan Forsman, Larry Mize and Jay Haas.
Tom Watson (71), Mark James (72), Tom Lehman (75) and Sam Torrance (78) were all far south of the leaderboard but comfortably north of the cut line at the end of another fresh and mostly cloudless day on the Angus coastline.
Sir Bob Charles, the winner of the 1963 Open Championship at Lytham, signed for a respectable 78 before announcing that he had just played his last international tour event, ending a career on the road that had begun in 1958. Sir Bob is now 74.
SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Par 142 (2x71)
138 Bernhard Langer (Ger) 67 71, Corey Pavin 69 69
139 Dan Forsman 68 71, Ian Woosnam (Wal) 72 67, Jay Haas 70 69, Larry Mize 69 70
140 Mark Calcavecchia 70 70
141 Russ Cochran 70 71, John Cook 69 72, Jay Don Blake 67 74
142 David J Russell (Eng) 75 67, Olin Browne 70 72
143 Michael Allen 73 70, Jeff Sluman 69 74, Loren Roberts 71 72, Carl Mason (Eng) 67 76, Morris Hatalsky 71 72, Peter Senior (Aus) 71 72
144 Gary Hallberg 70 74, Bruce Vaughan 68 76, David Peoples 70 74, Domingo Hospital (Spa) 74 70, Fred Funk 75 69
145 James D Mason 71 74, Ted Schulz 75 70, Tom Watson 74 71, Trevor Dodds (Nam) 74 71
146 Tom Lehman 71 75, Mark James (Eng) 74 72, Ronnie Black 72 74, David Frost (Rsa) 71 75, Bill Longmuir (Sco) 75 71, Tommy Armour III 74 72, Sam Torrance (Sco) 69 77, Ross Drummond (Sco) 72 74, Fraser Mann (Sco) 72 74, Steve Cipa (Eng) 74 72
147 Gene Jones 73 74, Hideki Kase (Jpn) 77 70, Chris Williams (Rsa) 73 74, Scott Simpson 78 69, Stephen Bennett (Eng) 74 73, C.s. Lu (Tpe) 76 71, Eduardo Romero (Arg) 74 73, Barry Lane (Eng) 75 72
148 Juan Quiros (Spa) 76 72, Denis Watson (Zim) 76 72, Mike Donald 69 79, Mike Goodes 73 75, Wayne Grady (Aus) 77 71, Mike Cunning 74 74, Bob Cameron (Eng) 75 73, Angel Franco (Par) 73 75, Tsukasa Watanabe (Jpn) 74 74, Peter Fowler (Aus) 75 73, Glenn Ralph (Eng) 75 73, Randy Haag 71 77, Noel Ratcliffe (Aus) 76 72, Gordon J Brand (Eng) 73 75, Mark Belsham (Eng) 75 73, Mark Wiebe 68 80, Des Smyth (Irl) 74 74, Gordon Brand Jnr (Sco) 73 75
149 John Benda 74 75, Martin Poxon (Eng) 75 74, Bobby Clampett 76 73, John Harrison (Eng) 72 77, Bob Gilder 76 73, Boonchu Ruangkit (Tha) 75 74, Philip Blackmar 75 74, Denis O'Sullivan (Irl) 73 76, Tim Simpson 75 74, David Merriman (Aus) 74 75
MISSED THE CUT
150 Frankie Minoza (Phi) 76 74, Seiki Okuda (Jpn) 74 76, Matt Briggs (Gbr) 76 74, Paul Simson 76 74, J.L. Lewis 76 74, Vicente Fernandez (Arg) 75 75, George Ryall (Eng) 75 75, Andrew Oldcorn (Sco) 75 75, Costantino Rocca (Ita) 76 74, Steve Van Vuuren (Rsa) 73 77
151 Jimmy Heggarty (NIrl) 71 80, Nick Job (Eng) 76 75, Mike Clayton (Aus) 75 76, Kevin Spurgeon (Eng) 82 69, Bob Boyd 76 75, Chip Beck 74 77, John Gould (Eng) 72 79, Mark Carnevale 75 76, Manuel Pinero (Spa) 75 76
152 Andy Stubbs (Eng) (am) 73 79, Tony Johnstone (Zim) 77 75, Craig Stadler 74 78, Bobby Lincoln (Rsa) 76 76, Roger Chapman (Eng) 75 77, Eamonn Darcy (Irl) 76 76, Peter Mitchell (Eng) 75 77, Nobuo Serizawa (Jpn) 77 75, Sandy Lyle (Sco) 75 77, Mike Harwood (Aus) 76 76
153 Marc Farry (Fra) 73 80, Denis Durnian (Gbr) 78 75, Kazuhiro Takami (Jpn) 76 77, Lance Ten Broeck 75 78, Pete Oakley 76 77, Jose Rivero (Spa) 79 74
154 Graham Banister 73 81, Fred Holton (Gbr) 76 78
155 Kirk Hanefeld 80 75, Joe Stansberry 77 78, Katsuyoshi Tomori (Jpn) 77 78
156 Alastair Webster (Sco) 75 81, Adan Sowa (Arg) 77 79, Jerry Bruner 76 80, Michael s Harmon 77 79
157 Andrew Reynolds (Eng) 79 78, Mark Balen 77 80, Bertus Smit (Rsa) 77 80, Gary Trivisonno 80 77, Robert Vallis (Ber) 77 80, Jeb Stuart 78 79
158 Martin Gray (Sco) 79 79, John Chillas (Sco) 82 76, David Gilchrist (Sco) 80 78, Jim Rhodes (Eng) 80 78, Bob Charles (Nzl) 80 78, Mike Reid 82 76
159 Graham Gunn (Can) 83 76, Michael Mercier 79 80, Barrie Stevens (Eng) 80 79, Carlo Alberto Acutis (Ita) 79 80
160 Delroy Cambridge (Jam) 79 81
162 Grant Turner (Eng) 84 78, John Hoskison (Eng) 83 79, Billy Jack (Sco) 83 79
163 Antonio Garrido (Spa) 80 83, Robert Wrenn 78 85
165 Brad Smith (Eng) 87 78
167 Tom Lockwood (Eng) 81 86, Steve Rogers 80 87
FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Bernhard Langer shares the halfway lead with Corey Pavin at The Senior Open Championship presented by MasterCard as both players seek a first Major in the over-50 ranks.
Germany's Langer has twice won the Champions Tour Order of Merit, but despite seven top-ten finishes in Senior Majors he is yet to add to the two Masters Tournaments he won in 1985 and 1993.
He added a level par 71 to his opening 67 to remain four under, and was joined by Pavin - who by contrast is playing in his first Senior Major - as the US Ryder Cup Captain signed for a second consecutive 69.
It could have been better for Langer - he hit a five iron to 50 feet and two putted for birdie at the sixth, then converted from seven feet for another gain at the next.
But he came unstuck on both par 3S on the inward nine - first misjudging the wind at the 13th and ending up in a pot bunker, then three-putting from off the green at the 16th.
"I was very pleased with my driving of the ball. My tee shots were solid and I hit a lot of fairways and I really put myself in a good position off the tee but didn't take advantage," said Langer - fourth in this event for the last two years.
"The short game wasn't quite as good. I didn't make as many putts today, and some of those putts off the green didn't get close enough. Plus, I saw the wind was blowing a little harder and it was blowing all day long.
"I was hoping maybe the last couple of hours, sometimes the wind drops in the evening, but it didn't drop today. It's been blowing the whole day and it makes links golf that much harder. Just a lot of crosswinds out there where you have to fight the bunkers and the water (the burns) and it's hard to get the ball close to some of the pins when you have crosswinds.
"Overall, I'm pretty pleased. I wish I would have made one or two more putts, but generally, I played quite well, and I'm happy with that."
Pavin could also have pulled further away from the field - he had four unanswered birdies when he reached the 18th, but hooked a five wood out of bounds and ran up a double bogey.
"I hit some good shots," he said. "The shot on 16 was a pretty good shot, obviously - it was good execution.
"It's the kind of course you need to hit some good shots out there. I hit a really good shot into 17 I thought might be reasonably close and ended up 40 feet away. You hit a lot of shots like that in links style golf.
"You can hit some shots that you kind of hit it a little thin and then they run up and end up pretty good. That's the good fun about it."
Wales' Ian Woosnam returned to form with a 67 to move into a share of third on three under, alongside American trio Jay Haas, Dan Forsman and Larry Mize.
"I think yesterday I finished with a birdie and I just had a little click on the swing there the last couple of swings I had, and so thought I would take that out today," said Woosnam.
"There wasn't much wind and that can be a little bit more of a chance to get into a bit of a rhythm, as well."
THIS PART OF THE ARTICLE WAS NOT TAKEN FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Corey Pavin, during his post-round interview, talked about how the over-50s players would like their own version of the Ryder Cup match.
Andy Stubbs, the European Senior Tour's managing director, said he rather likes the concept too, but financial backers are not exactly thick on the ground right now.
Stubbs said: "The idea of getting a match together is something the [US] Champions Tour and ourselves have talked about. It's just that the economy has been wrong for us recently. These things cost a lot of money to put on and you need a sponsor, but we would like to see it as soon as possible."
If Pavin's second successive 69 on a course with Carnoustie's miserly reputation backed the argument that his generation can still produce golf of a standard worth crossing continents to see, then so, too, did the scores of the six other former Ryder Cup captains in the field.
The most significant was the 71 posted by Bernhard Langer, a characteristically tenacious performance that gave the German a share of the lead with Pavin at the tournament's mid-point. However, there was also a stunning 67 from Ian Woosnam, who moved into a tie for third place with Dan Forsman, Larry Mize and Jay Haas.
Tom Watson (71), Mark James (72), Tom Lehman (75) and Sam Torrance (78) were all far south of the leaderboard but comfortably north of the cut line at the end of another fresh and mostly cloudless day on the Angus coastline.
Sir Bob Charles, the winner of the 1963 Open Championship at Lytham, signed for a respectable 78 before announcing that he had just played his last international tour event, ending a career on the road that had begun in 1958. Sir Bob is now 74.
SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Par 142 (2x71)
138 Bernhard Langer (Ger) 67 71, Corey Pavin 69 69
139 Dan Forsman 68 71, Ian Woosnam (Wal) 72 67, Jay Haas 70 69, Larry Mize 69 70
140 Mark Calcavecchia 70 70
141 Russ Cochran 70 71, John Cook 69 72, Jay Don Blake 67 74
142 David J Russell (Eng) 75 67, Olin Browne 70 72
143 Michael Allen 73 70, Jeff Sluman 69 74, Loren Roberts 71 72, Carl Mason (Eng) 67 76, Morris Hatalsky 71 72, Peter Senior (Aus) 71 72
144 Gary Hallberg 70 74, Bruce Vaughan 68 76, David Peoples 70 74, Domingo Hospital (Spa) 74 70, Fred Funk 75 69
145 James D Mason 71 74, Ted Schulz 75 70, Tom Watson 74 71, Trevor Dodds (Nam) 74 71
146 Tom Lehman 71 75, Mark James (Eng) 74 72, Ronnie Black 72 74, David Frost (Rsa) 71 75, Bill Longmuir (Sco) 75 71, Tommy Armour III 74 72, Sam Torrance (Sco) 69 77, Ross Drummond (Sco) 72 74, Fraser Mann (Sco) 72 74, Steve Cipa (Eng) 74 72
147 Gene Jones 73 74, Hideki Kase (Jpn) 77 70, Chris Williams (Rsa) 73 74, Scott Simpson 78 69, Stephen Bennett (Eng) 74 73, C.s. Lu (Tpe) 76 71, Eduardo Romero (Arg) 74 73, Barry Lane (Eng) 75 72
148 Juan Quiros (Spa) 76 72, Denis Watson (Zim) 76 72, Mike Donald 69 79, Mike Goodes 73 75, Wayne Grady (Aus) 77 71, Mike Cunning 74 74, Bob Cameron (Eng) 75 73, Angel Franco (Par) 73 75, Tsukasa Watanabe (Jpn) 74 74, Peter Fowler (Aus) 75 73, Glenn Ralph (Eng) 75 73, Randy Haag 71 77, Noel Ratcliffe (Aus) 76 72, Gordon J Brand (Eng) 73 75, Mark Belsham (Eng) 75 73, Mark Wiebe 68 80, Des Smyth (Irl) 74 74, Gordon Brand Jnr (Sco) 73 75
149 John Benda 74 75, Martin Poxon (Eng) 75 74, Bobby Clampett 76 73, John Harrison (Eng) 72 77, Bob Gilder 76 73, Boonchu Ruangkit (Tha) 75 74, Philip Blackmar 75 74, Denis O'Sullivan (Irl) 73 76, Tim Simpson 75 74, David Merriman (Aus) 74 75
MISSED THE CUT
150 Frankie Minoza (Phi) 76 74, Seiki Okuda (Jpn) 74 76, Matt Briggs (Gbr) 76 74, Paul Simson 76 74, J.L. Lewis 76 74, Vicente Fernandez (Arg) 75 75, George Ryall (Eng) 75 75, Andrew Oldcorn (Sco) 75 75, Costantino Rocca (Ita) 76 74, Steve Van Vuuren (Rsa) 73 77
151 Jimmy Heggarty (NIrl) 71 80, Nick Job (Eng) 76 75, Mike Clayton (Aus) 75 76, Kevin Spurgeon (Eng) 82 69, Bob Boyd 76 75, Chip Beck 74 77, John Gould (Eng) 72 79, Mark Carnevale 75 76, Manuel Pinero (Spa) 75 76
152 Andy Stubbs (Eng) (am) 73 79, Tony Johnstone (Zim) 77 75, Craig Stadler 74 78, Bobby Lincoln (Rsa) 76 76, Roger Chapman (Eng) 75 77, Eamonn Darcy (Irl) 76 76, Peter Mitchell (Eng) 75 77, Nobuo Serizawa (Jpn) 77 75, Sandy Lyle (Sco) 75 77, Mike Harwood (Aus) 76 76
153 Marc Farry (Fra) 73 80, Denis Durnian (Gbr) 78 75, Kazuhiro Takami (Jpn) 76 77, Lance Ten Broeck 75 78, Pete Oakley 76 77, Jose Rivero (Spa) 79 74
154 Graham Banister 73 81, Fred Holton (Gbr) 76 78
155 Kirk Hanefeld 80 75, Joe Stansberry 77 78, Katsuyoshi Tomori (Jpn) 77 78
156 Alastair Webster (Sco) 75 81, Adan Sowa (Arg) 77 79, Jerry Bruner 76 80, Michael s Harmon 77 79
157 Andrew Reynolds (Eng) 79 78, Mark Balen 77 80, Bertus Smit (Rsa) 77 80, Gary Trivisonno 80 77, Robert Vallis (Ber) 77 80, Jeb Stuart 78 79
158 Martin Gray (Sco) 79 79, John Chillas (Sco) 82 76, David Gilchrist (Sco) 80 78, Jim Rhodes (Eng) 80 78, Bob Charles (Nzl) 80 78, Mike Reid 82 76
159 Graham Gunn (Can) 83 76, Michael Mercier 79 80, Barrie Stevens (Eng) 80 79, Carlo Alberto Acutis (Ita) 79 80
160 Delroy Cambridge (Jam) 79 81
162 Grant Turner (Eng) 84 78, John Hoskison (Eng) 83 79, Billy Jack (Sco) 83 79
163 Antonio Garrido (Spa) 80 83, Robert Wrenn 78 85
165 Brad Smith (Eng) 87 78
167 Tom Lockwood (Eng) 81 86, Steve Rogers 80 87
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