Maggert Trying To Clean Up, Leads By Stroke After 36 Holes

A soggy trio of courses on a strangely windless Monterey Peninsula turned Friday’s second round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am into dartboard golf that gave up a gang of low scores.

Player after player posted rounds in the 60s on the three par-72 courses, and when the last golfer had changed out of his soaked shoes, Jeff Maggert’s 8-under-par 136 was a stroke better than Steve Jones, Davis Love III and Loren Roberts after 36 holes.

Former Pullman resident Kirk Triplett fired a 70 on the 6,799-yard Pebble Beach course for a two-day total of 139.

At Key Biscayne, Fla., Hale Irwin, last year’s Senior PGA Tour rookie of the year, shot a 65 to take the first-round lead in the Royal Caribbean Classic.

At Perth, Australia, Australian Wayne Smith fired a 4-under-par 68 and surged into a three-stroke lead after two rounds of the Heineken Classic with a 134 total.