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Martin Laird has put together two great rounds at TPC Summerlin, following a second-round 62 with a 63. Now the Scot's trying to follow his breakthrough victory with a successful title defense.
Laird eagled the 310-yard, par-4 15th -- driving the green and holing an 8-foot putt -- and closed with three pars to take a one-stroke lead over Jonathan Byrd on Saturday in the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospital for Children Open.
"I really left myself the easiest putt on the green," Laird said. "It was a right-edge, up-the-hill putt. That's the one most of us would want if we had 6 feet for eagle."
Last year, Laird won the event for his first PGA Tour title, beating George McNeill with a birdie on the third hole of a playoff. Chad Campbell was eliminated on the second extra hole.
Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=5720564
Laird eagled the 310-yard, par-4 15th -- driving the green and holing an 8-foot putt -- and closed with three pars to take a one-stroke lead over Jonathan Byrd on Saturday in the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospital for Children Open.
"I really left myself the easiest putt on the green," Laird said. "It was a right-edge, up-the-hill putt. That's the one most of us would want if we had 6 feet for eagle."
Last year, Laird won the event for his first PGA Tour title, beating George McNeill with a birdie on the third hole of a playoff. Chad Campbell was eliminated on the second extra hole.
Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=5720564
