2021 Valero Texas Open (27Th of 50 Events in the 2020-21 PGA TOUR Season)
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2021 Valero Texas Open (27th of 50 events in the 2020-21 PGA TOUR Season) San Antonio, Texas April 1-4, 2021 FedExCup Points: 500 (winner) TPC San Antonio (The Oaks Course) Par/Yards: 36-36—72/7,494 Purse: $7,700,000 ($1,386,000 winner) Second-Round Notes – Friday, April 2, 2021 Weather: Mostly clouDy. High of 71. WinD ESE 8-16 mph. 36-hole cut 78 professionals at 2-over 146 from a field of 141 professionals and three amateurs. Second-Round Leaderboard Cameron Tringale 66-69—135 (-9) Matt Wallace 69-68—137 (-7) Jordan Spieth 67-70—137 (-7) Kevin Stadler 69-70—139 (-5) Kyle Stanley 71-68—139 (-5) Erik van Rooyen 71-68—139 (-5) Brandt Snedeker 72-67—139 (-5) Things to Know • Cameron Tringale ties career-long birdie streak, holds two-stroke lead after 36 holes • Tringale is making his 297th start on the PGA TOUR since the start of the 2009 season, the most of any player without a win in that span • Jordan Spieth (T2) is in the top 10 after 36 holes for the fifth time in his last six stroke-play events on TOUR • Kevin Stadler (T4) makes the cut for the second time in his last 24 starts on TOUR and does not have a top-10 on TOUR since the 2014 Masters Tournament • Rickie Fowler’s bogey-free 68 is his first bogey-free score in his last 86 rounds on TOUR Second-Round Lead Notes 4 Second-round leaders/co-leaders to win the Valero Texas Open since it moved to TPC San Antonio in 2010 (most recent: Jimmy Walker/2015) 5 Second-round leaders/co-leaders to win in 2020-21 (most recent: Harris English/Sentry Tournament of Champions) Cameron Tringale (1st/-9) Category Entering the week Age 33 (August 24, 1987) FedExCup 43 OWGR 89 Starts at Valero Texas Open 10 Wins at Valero Texas Open 0 Top-10s at Valero Texas Open 2 Career PGA TOUR starts 296 Career PGA TOUR wins 0 Career PGA TOUR top-10s 24 PGA TOUR starts in 2020-21 14 PGA TOUR wins in 2020-21 0 PGA TOUR top-10s in 2020-21 2 • Holds a two-stroke lead, his second 36-hole lead/co-lead of his career; first: T1, 2014 THE NORTHERN TRUST (finished T2) • Making 297th start on the PGA TOUR since the start of the 2009 season, the most of any player without a win in that span Most PGA TOUR starts since the start of the 2009 season without a win in that span Player Total 36-hole pos. Cameron Tringale 296 1st Ricky Barnes 292 Not in field Chad Campbell 291 Not in field Brendon de Jonge 287 Not in field David Hearn 268 MC • Made five consecutive birdies (Nos. 13-17), tying the longest birdie streak of his TOUR career (fourth instance; most recent: R4/2020 The RSM Classic) • Has played in the Valero Texas Open each year since it moved to TPC San Antonio in 2010; has recorded two top- 10s in the 10 prior appearances (T5/2011, T8/2012) • Leads the field in Strokes Gained: Approach the Green (6.185) • Entered the week at No. 43 in the FedExCup standings with two top-10s in 14 starts (3rd/The RSM Classic, T7/AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am) Jordan Spieth (T2/-7) • In the top 10 after 36 holes for the fifth time in his last six stroke-events Tournament 36-hole pos. Finish Valero Texas Open T2 TBD THE PLAYERS Championship T50 T48 Arnold Palmer Invitational T7 T4 The Genesis Invitational T6 T15 AT&T Pebble Beach 1st T3 Waste Management Phoenix Open T8 T4 • 83rd start on the PGA TOUR since his most recent win (2017 The Open Championship) • Sixth start in the event; two prior top-10 finishes (10th/2014, 2nd/2015) • Four top-10 finishes in last six starts on TOUR: T4/Waste Management Phoenix Open, T3/AT&T Pebble Beach Pro- Am, T4/Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard, T9/WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play (eliminated in Round of 16) Matt Wallace (T2/-7) • In search of first career TOUR victory (best result to date: T3/2019 PGA Championship) • Competing on a sponsor exemption (PGA TOUR member but not otherwise exempt for the Valero Texas Open); last sponsor exemption to win on TOUR: Martin Laird/2020 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open • Four-time European Tour winner Kevin Stadler (T4/-5) • Entered the week with 21 missed cuts and one DQ in 23 starts on the PGA TOUR since the start of the 2015-16 season (lone made cut in that span: T77/2021 Farmers Insurance Open) • Last top-10 on TOUR: T8/2014 Masters Tournament • Began his Major Medical Extension during the 2016-17 season and has 12 starts left to earn 454 FedExCup points (to equal No. 125 Seung-Yul Noh from the 2015-16 FedExCup points list) OR $703,640 (to equal No. 125 Morgan Hoffmann from the 2015-16 Regular Season money list) • Due to COVID-19’s effect on the 2019-20 PGA TOUR Season, players on medical extensions at that time were given the option to negate starts made from the beginning of the 2019-20 season through the 2020 Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard; Stadler made nine starts in that span and got all of them back (missed the cut in all nine) Additional Player Notes • Brandt Snedeker (T4/-5) finished in the top 25 in all three prior starts at the event (4th/2011, T25/2016, 15th/2018) has not posted an over-par score in 14 career rounds • Rickie Fowler’s bogey-free 68 was his first bogey-free score since the second round of 2020 The American Express, snapping a streak of 85 rounds; Fowler enters the third round T32 (-4) • Danny Lee withdrew during the second round due to a shoulder injury • Cameron Percy was disqualified for signing an incorrect scorecard Course Statistics Toughest Hole Easiest Hole R1: Par-4 1st (4.444) Par-5 14th (4.549) R2: Par-4 4th (4.408) Par-5 14th (4.676) Scoring Averages Front 9 Back 9 Total Cumulative R1: 36.847 36.521 73.368 - R2: 37.099 36.049 73.148 73.259 Bogey-free rounds R1 (1): Kyle Stanley (71) R2 (2): Rickie Fowler (68), Matt Wallace (68) .