Round 2: Waste Management Phoenix Open
February 3 2012
6:52 pm
FedExCup leader wants zone to be norm
By Helen Ross, PGATOUR.COM
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Johnson Wagner is the only player on TOUR who has posted top-10 finishes in his first three starts of the 2012 season.
He’s well on his way to another — and maybe more — after a 69 on Friday moved him to 5 under at the midway point of the Waste Management Phoenix Open.
Wagner leads the FedExCup standings after a win at the Sony Open in Hawaii and a tie for second in his last start at the Humana Challenge. He also tied for ninth at the season-opening Hyundai Tournament of Champions.
So what’s it like to be in that kind of a zone?
"It’s good," Wagner said. "I’m really hoping this is kind of the norm from now on. I’m making a lot of mistakes but when I’m putting as good as I am right now it makes a lot of things easier because I can rely on making a lot of 10-, 15-footers for birdie. I know I am never really out of the hole if I can chip it close.
"Putting has been huge key for the first month of the season."
Wagner played with two good friends in Mark Wilson and Brandt Snedeker, his junior golf foe, and called it "probably one of the best pairings I could ask for." Wilson, who won the Humana Challenge, is 3 under for the tournament while Snedeker, last week’s champ, is 1 under.
Wagner has already posted more rounds in the 60s this week than in four previous appearances here. He has three missed cuts and a tie for 60th in Phoenix two years ago. His lone sub-70 round at TPC Scottsdale, a 67, came that week in 2010.
"I always liked it and always thought I could play well here," said Wagner, who appears to be proving himself right. "I’m just making a lot of birdies and I’ve got to minimize the mistakes this weekend."
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Someone, a friend, family member, college buddy, religious counselor, please tell Wagner his mustache is beyond hideous and it must go. Please.
If you were playing as well as Johnson is right now, you’d keep it too.
It would seem that the mustache has brought lots of good things to Johnson. What so bad about a little attention. Sponsors love the attention,keeps the mood light, fans are talking about it and he is playing lights out! I say keep it and continue a good story for a sport that needs some fun thrown in. Followed him since the Nationwide. Glad for all his success. Golf needs good guys like Johnson.
Isn’t the mustache the latest awareness tactic by the Prostate Cancer campaing?
If you notice, Fowler, Geoff Ogilvy and a few others are also sporting the stache!
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