congrats & good luck to family friend ricky barnes, who came out of nowhere to set a u.s. open two-round record by shooting an 8-under 132.
as gene wojciechowski wrote: Just in case you've forgotten -- and almost everyone has -- let me reintroduce Barnes to you. Big dude (6-foot-2, 200 pounds) … his old man, Bruce Barnes, played for the New England Patriots … won the 2002 U.S. Amateur … low amateur at the 2003 Masters, where he beat playing partner Tiger Woods by 7 strokes in Round 1 … supposed to be the Next Big Thing … turned pro … disappeared off the face of the golf planet. Now here he is again -- older (28), smarter, humbler. A lot humbler. These rounds of 67 and 65 parachute him back into the majors drop zone, but it all means zilch if he disappears again into the land of double-bogeys. "Could I have predicted that was I going to shoot 132?" Barnes said. "Absolutely not. Did I know I had it in me? Yeah." Congratulations, Ricky. Because other than you, your brother Andy (his caddie for the Open) and other immediate family members, absolutely nobody on the Bethpage Black premises ...
