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Ty trips Perez vaults into Q-School lead as Tryon falls backPosted: Friday November 30, 2001 5:18 PM
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Pat Perez broke the course record at Bear Lakes with a 9-under-par 63 and took a two-stroke lead Friday at the halfway point of the PGA Tour qualifying tournament. Perez, who played on Arizona State's national championship team in 1996, set the record on the Links Course during a relatively calm day. He was at 198 through 54 holes, and had a two-shot lead over Tommy Armour III, who had a 67. Ty Tryon regained his strength from a bout with strep throat earlier in the week, but the 17-year-old player lost ground on the field. He had a 71 and dropped from a tie for 33rd into a tie for 61st at 210. Tryon, a junior in high school who made the cut in two PGA Tour events this year, is trying to become the youngest player to earn his tour card. Only the top 35 and ties after the six-round tournament will have exempt status next year.
Hidemichi Tanaka of Japan, the 36-hole leader, had a 70 and was in the group at 202. Gary Nicklaus, who made it through Q-school who years ago, had a 65 on the course his father designed and was in a large group at 204 in a tie for seventh. Perez won a Buy.com Tour event two years ago and spent most of this year in the top 25 on the Buy.com money list, before finishing 32nd. With three rounds to go, several past PGA Tour winners were in danger of falling too far behind to get their cards -- Jim McGovern (212), Ted Tryba (213) and Paul Goydos (216).
Twenty-year-old Aaron Baddeley, a two-time winner of the
Australian Open, had a 69 but was still well back at 214.
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