Round 4: Farmers Insurance Open
January 29 2012
5:10 pm
Watch: Breakdown of Stanley’s swing
Swingvision: Kyle Stanley
CBS Sports breaks down Kyle Stanley's golf swing at Torrey Pines.
4:58 pm
Leaderboard update: Advantage just 3
LA JOLLA, Calif. — Consecutive bogeys have proven costly for Kyle Stanley as his lead now stands at just three strokes with six holes remaining.
Of course, two of those are par 5s, which play right into Stanley’s hands. He’s leading the field in driving distance with an average of 310.1 yards and he’s played the par 5s in 12 under.
Stanley is 19 under and playing the 602-yard 13th right now. Brandt Snedeker, who is two groups ahead of Stanley, made a 3-footer on the same hole to narrow the gap to three.
Snedeker is 5 under through 13 holes and has yet to make a bogey on Sunday. The Vanderbilt product made up five and six strokes, respectively, on the final day when he won the 2007 Wyndham Championship and the 2011 Heritage.
John Rollins, who is even for the day, is six shots off the pace.
4:27 pm
Leaderboard update: Stanley by six
LA JOLLA, Calif. – Kyle Stanley’s lead dwindled to five strokes briefly when he failed to get up-and-down from a greenside bunker behind the par-3 eighth hole.
No sweat, though. Stanley bounced back with a two-putt birdie from 20 feet at the par-5 ninth to regain the stroke he lost as he made the turn in 3 under. He’s in command at 21 under for the tournament.
Brandt Snedeker is alone in second at 15 under after playing his first 12 holes in 4 under. Cameron Tringale, who is 2 under through 11, and John Rollins, who is even through 10, are tied, another stroke behind.
3:30 pm
Can Sneds stage another rally?
LA JOLLA, Calif. — Brandt Snedeker has been there, done that.
He started the final round of the Farmers Insurance Open facing an uphill climb after a 74 on Saturday left him seven strokes off Kyle Stanley’s lead. But Snedeker has come from well off the pace on Sunday in each of his first two victories.
Witness his first win at the Wyndham Championship. Snedeker trailed Jeff Overton by five strokes that Sunday at Forest Oaks country Club and he closed with a 63 to win by two.
And less than a year ago at The Heritage, Snedeker was six strokes behind Luke Donald entering the final round at Harbor Town. He shot 64 on Sunday to tie the Englishman and went on to beat him in a playoff.
Snedeker is doggedly giving chase on Sunday, playing his first eight holes in 3 under but Stanley is the same through seven for right now it’s a wash. Sneds needs to go really low on the back nine – and likely get some help from Stanley — to have a chance of catching the leader.
Snedeker has a history here at Torrey Pines, too. In just his third start on TOUR, the Tennessean tied the record of 61 on the North Course and went on to finish solo third, three strokes behind Tiger Woods.
3:08 pm
Watch: Ishikawa eagles
Round 4 video
Ryo Ishikawa big week got even better when he eagled the par-5 sixth on Sunday.
2:33 pm
Leaderboard update: Stanley pads lead
LA JOLLA, Calif. — The opening drive didn’t go as he’d hoped, landing in the right rough.
Not to worry, though, Kyle Stanley muscled his second shot onto the green and calmly drained a 25-footer for birdie. He birdied the second, too, with a 7-foot putt and all of a sudden the Clemson product owns a whopping seven-shot lead.
John Rollins is trying to apply pressure, but he followed his 4-foot birdie at the second with a bogey at No. 3 where he missed the green and couldn’t convert a 9-footer for par.
Brandt Snedeker is 1 under through five holes and alone in third, eight strokes back. Suddenly, that 74 Snedeker shot on Saturday is looking even more costly.
Six players are tied at 11 under, including Jimmy Walker, Hunter Mahan, Scott Piercy, Sang-moon Bae, Cameron Tringale and John Huh. Walker and Mahan, who are playing together, are making the most positive moves at 3 under through eight holes.
2:06 pm
Huh looks to answer questions Sunday
By Helen Ross, PGATOUR.COM
LA JOLLA, Calif. — John Huh knows his last name conjures up a question mark, in more ways than one.
"Huh?" is often what someone says when he or she needs you to repeat yourself. This week, though, many people are asking "Huh?" and wondering who this young Korean-American is.
Huh, the PGA TOUR rookie who starts the final round of the Farmers Insurance Open in a tie for second, hopes to turn his unusual last name into a trademark of sorts.
"When I was in high school, it was pretty annoying a little bit," Huh said. "I mean, the bad point was trying to make fun of me a little bit sometimes. But it turns out it’s going to be good for (me).
"I know Boo Weekley has like a ‘boo’ sound. I’m trying to bring that kind of, too."
So Huh would like to hear the fans yell his name like they do "Boooooooooo" or "Luuuuuuke" when Luke Donald steps to the green.
The Farmers Insurance Open is just the second PGA TOUR event of Huh’s career. He never played the Nationwide Tour, either, and earned his TOUR card the hard way — squeaking through three stages of q-school.
Consider this. Huh claimed the final spot in his first stage event in Beaumont, Texas, and then tied for eighth — one stroke from the cutoff to advance — in the second stage in Florida. And Huh had to birdie his final hole in the final round of the final stage at PGA West to slip into a tie for 27th and get the last of the 2012 TOUR cards.
Even with his lofty position on the leaderboard at Torrey Pines, though, the 21-year-old Huh’s goals this season are modest ones.
"It’s my rookie year, and I’m trying to make a cut in as many as I can and try to keep my card," Huh said. "That’s it. That’s my first goal ever since I went through q-school. So if I can do that, I’ll be pleased with that."
Huh, who counts his father as his primary instructor, was born in New York City but he spent the first 12 years of his life in Korea. He came back to the U.S. and eventually went to high school in the Los Angeles area.
Huh had hopes of playing golf at Cal-Northridge but he didn’t have enough core credits to qualify for scholarship aid under NCAA rules. So after a couple of weeks on campus, Huh decided to turn pro and began to play the Korean Tour where he earned Rookie of the Year honors.
Huh earned his first win as a pro in Korea, beating one of his idols, K.J. Choi, the reigning PLAYERS champion, at the Shinhan Donghae Open. He started the final round three strokes back but closed with a 68 to take the win.
"One hole he hit OB and I made par on that one, and it turned out that I won the tournament," Huh said. "That tournament actually gave me a lot of confidence, because I didn’t really have success over there. I was just making the cut over there. But from that tournament, it was pretty big, a big tournament for me to just play there."
Imagine, then, the confidence he could gain on Sunday at Torrey Pines.
11:15 am
Funny photo: Fowler fans at Torrey
These fans left little doubt who they were following Saturday at the Farmers Insurance Open. It’s also not the first time fans have shown up wearing the oversize hat. A fan last month at the Chevron World Challenge:
8:30 am
PGA TOUR Today
Round 4 preview
Kyle Stanley carries a commanding lead, but the pitfalls of Torrey Pines South await him in the final round.
Round 3: Farmers Insurance Open
January 28 2012
9:42 pm
Tidbits from the third round
LA JOLLA, Calif. — News and notes from the third round of the Farmers Insurance Open:
• A secondary cut took place Saturday. The initial 36-hole cut left 79 players at 2-under or better. After Saturday, there are 73 players remaining for Sunday’s final round.
• Kyle Stanley, seeking his first victory, takes a five-shot lead into Sunday’s final round. The Farmers Insurance Open has not produced a first-time TOUR winner since Jay Don Blake in 1991.
• Since 2000, the third-round leader of the Farmers Insurance Open has held on for the win just four times.
• Outside of Ted Kroll winning the inaugural Farmers Insurance Open, Arnold Palmer (1957) is the only player to win in his first start in this event. John Huh (T2) and Sang-Moon Bae (T4) are making their first starts.
• Making his eighth consecutive start at the Farmers Insurance Open dating to 2005, Haas put himself in good position for Sunday’s final round with a 2-under 70 Saturday. At 12-under 204, he will begin the final round six strokes back.
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