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Round Two of the Unknown Open -
Kendall skips to top of leaderboard

July 17, 2004;  Source: AnyoneForTee
20 make the cut as Kershaw (Kendall - Ed) leads both championships and Japanese challenge emerges

Shep Kurveball TROON.  Shep Kurveball (Skip Kendall - Ed) leapt into the second round lead of the Unknown Open with a scintillating 66 on another benign day at Royal Troon, and also leads the main Open Championship field. The unknown 39 year old sent panic-stricken bookmakers into a frenzy as they shortened his odds from 10 to 1 to 5 to 2 in the Unknown Open, and from 50,000 to 1 to 50 to 1 in the main event.

Dreaming of a jet plane...20 of the 63 unknowns who teed it up on Thursday morning survived the halfway cut, which fell at 145, three over par. One victim of the cut was outgoing champion Bent Cutlass (Ben Curtis - Ed), whose rounds of 75 and 74 for an 8 over par total sent him back into the obscurity from which he briefly emerged at the Open Sandwich (Sandwich Open - Ed) last year, and onto a 'plane home (picture left).

Tab HumblebumAmerican Tab Humblebum (Todd Hamilton - Ed), pictured right, and Australian Ken Feltwarm (Kim Felton for heaven's sake! - Ed) completed the leading trio, with the first home-grown unknown, Gerry Lake-Palmer (Gary Emerson you fool - Ed) of England handily placed in fourth on a very respectable 1 under par.

A trio of Japanese unknowns have made it to the weekend, lead by Tokyo department store Taka Shimaya (Takashi Kamiyama - Ed). With the main Open field reduced by the cut to only 73 players, starting times will be later on Saturday than the trio would perhaps like, as the sun will be well risen before they tee off.

Noteworthy performances by unknowns included Peter Broadsword (Paul Bradshaw - Ed) who rocketed from 114th place to 24th with an outstanding 4 under 67, and Harvey McCann (Hunter Mahan - Ed) who moved from 95th to 37th place with a 69. Less glorious was Martin Google (Mathew Goggin - Ed), who slipped from a tie for 4th to 74th place with a 7 over 78, and missed the cut by one shot.

The AFT award for consistency goes to Belgian Nigel Coldsore (Nicolas Colsaerts - Ed) who followed his opening 77 with... another 77 for a 12 over total and out of the tournament.

Lastly a word for two unknowns who showed true Duffer grit and spirit. Neil Evans (ah!, at last - Ed), who had an 11 on his card in a nightmare 85 on Thursday, stuck to his guns and returned a steady 78 to lift himself from the last-but-one spot to 152nd. And Brett Taylor (well done! - Ed), who was propping up the field in last place after round one, having had a 9 on his card, returned an excellent 75 to lift himself from last to 153rd.

The full leaderboard after two rounds looks like this:

Pos. Nat. Player ± Par Rd. 1 Rd. 2 Rd. 3 Rd. 4 Total
1 Skip Kendall -7 69 66      
5= Todd Hamilton -4 71 67      
15= Kim Felton -2 73 67      
17= Gary Emerson -1 70 71      
24= Paul Bradshaw +4 75 67      
24= Mårten Olander Par 68 74      
37= Martin Erlandsson +1 73 70      
37= Mark Foster +1 71 72      
37= Takashi Kamiyama +1 70 73      
37= Hunter Mahan +1 74 69      
37= Tjaart Van der Walt +1 70 73      
37= Bo van Pelt +1 72 71      
37= Stuart Wilson (A) +1 68 75      
53= Christian Cévaër +2 70 74      
53= Keiichiro Fukabori +2 73 71      
53= Tetsuji Hiratsuka +2 70 74      
59= James Kingston +3 73 72      
59= Jyoti Randhawa +3 73 72      
59= Paul Wesselingh +3 73 72      
59= Sean Whiffin +3 73 72      
       The cut fell at +3       
74= Scott Barr +4 70 76      
74= Klas Eriksson +4 73 73      
74= Matthew Goggin +4 68 78      
74= S.K. Ho +4 72 74      
74= Euan Little +4 74 72      
85= Lloyd Campbell (A) +5 73 74      
85= Jonathan Cheetham +5 72 75      
85= Glen Day +5 74 73      
85= Barry Hume +5 72 75      
85= Brendan Jones +6 71 76      
85= Grant Muller +5 73 74      
85= Paul Sheehan +5 75 72      
85= Steven Tiley (A) +5 71 76      
102= Arjun Atwal +6 74 74      
102= John Huston +6 75 73      
102= Maarten Lafeber +6 74 74      
102= Daniel Sugrue +6 74 74      
102= Ben Willman +6 72 76      
112= Cameron Beckman +7 75 74      
112= Ben Curtis +7 75 74      
112= Zach Johnson +7 73 76      
112= Spike McRoy +7 71 78      
121= Richard Green +8 74 76      
121= Matthew Hazelden +8 79 71      
121= Hidemasa Hoshino +8 76 74      
121= Simon Wakefield +8 73 77      
127= Darren Fichardt +9 71 80      
127= Hennie Otto +9 74 77      
133= Brian McElhinney (A) +10 76 76      
137= Jimmy Green +11 78 75      
137= David Griffiths +11 75 78      
141= Dinesh Chand +12 80 74      
141= Nicolas Colsaerts +12 77 77      
146= Louis Oosthuizen +14 74 82      
146= Andrew Willey +14 76 80      
148= Adam Le Vesconte +15 77 80      
148= Ian Spencer +15 79 78      
150 Andrew Buckle +16 76 82      
151 Yoshinobu Tsukada +17 79 80      
153 Brett Taylor +19 86 75      
154 Neil Evans +21 85 78      
155= Lewis Atkinson +22 79 85      
155= Anthony Millar +22 78 86      
 
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