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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