Jeff Sluman Follows 64 With a 65, Leads Greensboro Open by 2 Strokes

Jeff Sluman set course and tournament records for 36 holes Friday and took a two-shot lead at the halfway point of the $1-million Greater Greensboro Open golf tournament.

“I wasn’t thinking about it much until it was over and then I added it up and it was 65,” Sluman said.

The bogey-free, seven-under-par round, combined with an opening 64, left Sluman at 15-under-par 129 after two trips around the Forest Oaks Country Club.

That broke the course record of 132, set by Sandy Lyle of Scotland in 1985, and the tournament record of 131, set by George Archer at Sedgefield in 1967.

Sluman, 30, won $335,590 last season but has not won a tournament.

His 36-hole score also matched the low on the PGA Tour this year, by Chip Beck on a par-71 course in the Phoenix Open.

But even those heroics were not enough to completely shake his old nemesis, Lyle, a former winner of this title and the 1985 British Open champion. He put together a 63, just one shot over the course record, and had a two-day total of 131.

“I was thinking about the course record,” Lyle said. “Not Sluman. I have two days to catch him.”

It was another three strokes back to Donnie Hammond and Scott Hoch at 134. Each had a second-round 67.

Ken Green, with a 67, and Bob Murphy, with a 66, followed at 135.