Golf Central

Phil Mickelson is on top of a leaderboard for the first time in a while, after a second round 68 gave him a shot lead at 7-under from Matt Kuchar, Brian Gay and Johnson Wagner (6-under) and a handful at 5-under, including Vaughn Taylor and Stephen Ames.

Carrying five wedges in his bag, Lefty only needed to putt once on 11 of the 18 holes. Geoff Ogilvy shot a Friday best 64, while Jesper Parnevik, Rory Sabbatini, Tom Lehman, Jim Furyk, Chad Campbell and Steve Stricker were among the big names to miss the cut.

The Bet Detective will not be a happy man this weekend...