Sunriver, OR (Sports Network) – Rod Perry posted an even-par 72 on Monday to remain atop the leaderboard after two rounds of the 46th PGA Professional National Championship.<\/p>\n
Perry, who shared the first-round lead, is alone atop the leaderboard at 8- under-par 135. He played his second round at on the Crosswater Course, which will host the final two rounds.<\/p>\n
The par-71 Meadows Course at Sunriver Resort was used also for the first two rounds of stroke play.<\/p>\n
Perry had matching nines. He started on the back nine and parred his first hole, then traded a birdie for a bogey at 11 and 12. After seven straight pars around the turn, Perry birdied the second, but gave that stroke right back with a bogey on the third. He closed with six straight pars.<\/p>\n
Mark Sheftic, who works at Merion which just hosted the U.S. Open, posted a 4- under 67 on Monday to move into a share of second place with Chip Sullivan at minus-7. Sullivan, the 2007 champion, also shot 67 on Monday.<\/p>\n
Corey Prugh, who shared the first-round lead, stumbled to a 2-over 74 and fell into fourth place at 6-under 137. Jeff Sorenson (74) and Rob Labritz (67) share fifth at minus-5.<\/p>\n
Three-time champion Mike Small managed a 1-under 70 in round two. He finished 36 holes at 4-under-par 139. Two other former winners — 2004 champ Bob Sowards (2-under 141) and 2008 winner Scott Hebert (2-over 145) — also made it through to the final two rounds.<\/p>\n
Last year’s winner Matt Dobyns managed an even-par 71 in round two, but missed the cut by two strokes. Six other former winners — David Hutsell, Ron Philo, Jr., Wayne DeFrancesco, Darrell Kestner, Steve Schneiter and Brett Upper — failed to make the cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sunriver, OR (Sports Network) – Rod Perry posted an even-par 72 on Monday to remain atop the leaderboard after two rounds of the 46th PGA Professional National Championship. Perry, who shared the first-round lead, is alone atop the leaderboard at 8- under-par 135. He played his second round at on the Crosswater Course, which will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}