Day .5 and Day 3

Another 4:30 AM wake up (2:30 AM if you're going to still allow me to whine about 2 hour time
difference) KJ's blended goodness (a breakfast worthy of its own blog entry), leave the house by 5:30 to resume round 2 play @ 7 AM. +2 was the believed to be the number last night, but with the rain last night and virtually no wind (save that coming from the swarms of mosquitoes) the pros in our group believed that +1 or maybe E was a real possibility...KJ was @ +3.

KJ comes in with 5 birdies and a bogey, including rolling in a bomb on #8 and capped it off on #9 when after a perfect drive, cut a 7 iron that fell just right of the pin and made the birdie putt to get to -1, 2 clear of the eventual cut.

After a quick lunch and a stretch, we're 2nd off of #10, and grouped with Paul Casey and Brian Davis. KJ is hitting the ball beautifully and distance control of his irons is spot on, every approach is pin high...we just can't buy a putt until #15, the brutal par 4 when he stuffs his 2nd shot to 2' or so and rolls it in for birdie and follows up that effort with one more on the par 5 - 16th...3 great shots and a one putt. Finally, victory on #18, above is a picture of the fairway and a visual of why you don't want to/can't go left. KJ split the fairway but missed clearing the bunker with 3 iron by about a 12"...the ball ends up jumping back and resting into the deep bunker short instead of releasing to the back pin (and probably in)...4 the hard way, blast to about 10' and rolled in the putt for P-A-R!

Made another long one on #1 for birdie, but then got stuck on the par train after throwing darts at pins. An aggressive line (Prodge called it, "1/2 of Wisconsin off") on #8 tee left his drive short of the fairway on the right, 5 shots later and he made double bogey 6. Once again he played better than his score would indicate, didn't drive it as well on his 3rd nine of the day, but he did great to grind out a good score early to make the cut and put himself in position for a respectable finish tomorrow.

Back on track for a Sunday finish, everyone is off of #1 tee in pairs, KJ tees off @ 10:26 AM and is paired with Charl Schwartzel.

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I thought I saw sunburned people on Thursday...amateurs! The pros were out today and with 27 holes worth of sunshine, the pigment challenged people attending the championship have taken, "I don't need sunscreen" to a whole new level

We discovered a soft serve machine in the corner of the player's dining room and this lactose intolerant individual took his intolerance to the limit!

The shoe shiners in the player's locker room make very good money in tips

Wearing golf spikes to a golf tournament may not be the best look...but crawling up a 10' mound on your hands and knees after falling down said mound because you literally cannot stand up without sliding further (while wearing a screaming red Badgers shirt) is arguably a worse look

Interesting stat that came up at dinner tonight, KJ is one of 19 active golfers on the PGA Tour with 7 or more Tournament victories...a pretty exclusive club

A parting stat...100% humidity with high temp sucks