Greater Greensboro Open : Longshot Sluman Shoots a 71 to Keep His One-Stroke Lead

Longshot Jeff Sluman holed a 3-iron shot for an eagle-2 on the way to a windblown 71 that enabled him to retain his one-stroke lead in Friday’s second round of the $400,000 Greater Greensboro Open golf tournament.

Sluman, the last man off the tee at the Forest Oaks Country Club, had a remarkably steady round in strong, gusty winds. He collected 16 pars, one bogey and the eagle, a shot that covered 189 yards on the 10th hole.

Sluman, 27, at 5-7 and 135 one of the smallest men on the PGA Tour, completed 36 holes in 137, seven under par.

Bobby Clampett, once one of the game’s more promising young players but in a slump the past two years, shot a 70 for a 138 total.

“There was a lot of guesswork out there with the winds so gusty, doing different things at different times,” Clampett said.

Japanese veteran Isao Aoki matched the best round of the day, a 69, for a total of 140.

He was followed at 141 by Lance Ten Broeck who shot a 70.

The group at 142 included Sandy Lyle of Scotland, Jim Nelford of Canada, Brad Faxon, Dan Pohl and Roger Maltbie. Faxon shot a 71, Nelford a 72, Maltbie a 73, Pohl a 74 and Lyle a 75.