Monday April 6, 2009
Lefty and Vijay miss the cut in Houston
HOUSTON: American Bo Van Pelt took a one-shot lead at the weather-hit Houston Open on Saturday before darkness fell and third-round play was suspended.
Van Pelt followed birdies at the second and fourth holes with two more at the par-three seventh and par-five eighth to stand four-under for the day and 11-under total at Redstone Golf Club.
Knotted at 10-under were former champion Fred Couples, who had completed 10 holes, Briton Paul Casey and Americans Tommy Armour III and rookie Colt Knost, all through eight.
The packed leaderboard also featured six players bunched at nine-under par including Australian Geoff Ogilvy (eight holes), Briton Lee Westwood (12) and Sweden’s Robert Karlsson, who was six-under for the round with one more hole to play.
Only six of the 79 players who made the cut finished the third round, which will be completed early on Sunday before the final round.
The start of Thursday’s opening round was delayed due to a thunderstorm and suspended in the afternoon because of high winds, which caused the backlog.
World number two Phil Mickelson (pic) and triple champion Vijay Singh were among those who missed the cut after coming back early to complete the second round on Saturday.
Mickelson followed an opening 77 with four-over 76 to miss the cut by 10 shots in a warm-up for next week’s US Masters.
“It was really good I played here because I made some mistakes during the first two rounds that you just can’t do competitively,” lefthander Mickelson told reporters.
“I drove two balls in the water off the tee ... stuff like that I needed to get out of my system here.” — Reuters
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