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Pebble Beach, Calif. • Sung Kang didn't know anything about his amateur partner until he went on the Internet and looked up actor Ray Romano. He didn't realize the par at Monterey Peninsula was 71 until he scrambled for par on his final hole and realized while signing his card Friday that he set the course record with a career-low 60.
It added to a memorable day at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, where Kang and Hiroshi Iwata of Japan wound up tied for the lead.
"I feel like I'm living a dream right now," Kang said.
Kang and Phil Mickelson each brought the possibility of 59 into the conversation one early in his round, the other late.
Mickelson took only 11 putts on the front nine at Monterey Peninsula. When he made a 40-foot eagle putt on the 10th hole, he was 7 under for the round and had a pair of par 5s remaining over his last eight holes.
He made bogey on one of the par 5s, hooking his fairway metal into shrubs and having to reach into the thick plants with a hybrid to punch out the ball and make sure it only went about 6 feet so that it wouldn't go up the slope and roll back into the bushes. Lefty usually doesn't hit great shots that go 6 feet unless he has a putter.
Then, he nearly lost his tee shot on the final hole and made another bogey for a 65, leaving him one shot behind.
"I thought I was going to shoot a lot lower than I did," Mickelson said. "I didn't expect to play 1 over coming in. But I'm not going to complain because I made a lot of good putts on the front."
He goes to Pebble Beach on Saturday as he goes after a record-tying fifth win in this event.
Kang and Iwata were at 11-under 132.
Champions Tour • In Naples, Fla., Bernhard Langer shot a 10-under 62 to take a four-stroke lead in the PGA Tour Champions' Chubb Classic at Twin Eagles.
Langer made 11 birdies, including five straight birdies from. Using a long putter, he made a 35-footer on No. 9 and a 40-footer on No. 17.
Friday's scores
p-Pebble Beach Golf Links Yardage • 6,816; Par • 72
m-Monterey Peninsula Country Club
Yardage • 6,914; Par • 71
s-Spyglass Hill Golf Club
Yardage • 6,953; Par • 72
Purse • $7 million
Second-round leaders
Sung Kang 72s-60m 132 -11
Hiroshi Iwata 66m-66p 132 -11
Phil Mickelson 68s-65m 133 -10
Freddie Jacobson 65p-69s 134 -10
Chez Reavie 63m-70p 133 -10
Justin Rose 66s-68m 134 -9
Roberto Castro 66p-70s 136 -8
Mark Hubbard 70p-66s 136 -8
Ricky Barnes 65m-70p 135 -8
Jonas Blixt 67m-69p 136 -7
Ryan Ruffels 67p-70s 137 -7
Jim Herman 69m-67p 136 -7
David Hearn 67m-70p 137 -6
Patrick Reed 72s-65m 137 -6
Danny Lee 71s-66m 137 -6
Stewart Cink 70p-68s 138 -6
Bill Haas 69s-68m 137 -6
Jason Day 71s-66m 137 -6
Matt Jones 68p-70s 138 -6
Vaughn Taylor 70p-68s 138 -6
Troy Merritt 67m-71p 138 -5
Lucas Glover 73p-66s 139 -5
Jonathan Byrd 70m-68p 138 -5
Brooks Koepka 68s-70m 138 -5
J.B. Holmes 66s-72m 138 -5
Spencer Levin 66p-73s 139 -5
Aaron Baddeley 69s-70m 139 -4
Luke Donald 70s-69m 139 -4
Billy Hurley III 68m-71p 139 -4
Cameron Smith 64m-75p 139 -4
Padraig Harrington 68m-71p 139 -4
Steven Bowditch 68p-72s 140 -4
Si Woo Kim 70p-70s 140 -4
Nick Taylor 71s-68m 139 -4
Sean O'Hair 67m-72p 139 -4
Jordan Spieth 71s-69m 140 -3
Bud Cauley 68s-72m 140 -3
Marc Turnesa 70s-70m 140 -3
John Rollins 72m-68p 140 -3
Jason Gore 66m-74p 140 -3
Pat Perez 69m-71p 140 -3
Also
Zac Blair 70p-73s 143 -1
Daniel Summerhays 76p-75s 151 +7