But the name getting the most attention was Kim, a 23-year-old from Los Angeles who finally lived up to some of his potential earlier this year with a runaway victory at the Wachovia Championship. Even without tournament host Tiger Woods in the field, it says plenty of Kim to play his best golf on two of the top PGA Tour courses this year - Quail Hollow and Congressional.
He was playing with Joe Ogilvie and J.B. Holmes, and Ogilvie walked off the fifth green after making his third straight birdie to give himself a chance at making in the cut. Even so, he looked over at Kim, raised his eyebrows and said, "The guy is pretty good."
After a bogey on the final hole, he was pretty hot.
"I can't be too disappointed," Kim said. "I hit some poor shots and got nothing out of my game after the break, and that was unfortunate. But I've got two more days to go."
So do 13 other guys, all because of one 8-foot putt.
Ogilvie ran off four birdies in five holes to reach 2 over, but he missed an 8-foot par putt. That meant 83 players made the cut at 3 over, allowing players like Davis Love III, Sean O'Hair and Ogilvie at least one more day.
DIVOTS: Notah Begay, Woods' teammate at Stanford, followed his 67 with a 77 to miss the cut. Also missing the cut were Masters champion Trevor Immelman and Brandt Snedeker, who played in the final pairing at Augusta National. ... Overton made three of his five birdies after driving into the rough.
