PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- Sung Kang didn't know anything about his amateur partner until he went on the Internet and looked up actor Ray Romano. He didn't realize par at Monterey Peninsula was 71 until he scrambled for par on his final hole and realized while signing his card Friday that he set the course record with a career-low 60.
It added to a memorable day at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, where Kang and Hiroshi Iwata of Japan wound up tied for the lead.
"I feel like I'm living a dream right now," Kang said.
Kang and Phil Mickelson each brought the possibility of 59 into the conversation -- one early in his round, the other late.
Mickelson took only 11 putts on the front nine at Monterey Peninsula. When he made a 40-foot eagle putt on the 10th hole, he was 7 under for the round and had two par 5s remaining over his last eight holes.
He made bogey on one of them, hooking his fairway metal into shrubs and having to reach into the thick plants with a hybrid to punch out the ball and make sure it only went about 6 feet so that it wouldn't go up the slope and roll back into the bushes.
He nearly lost his tee shot on the final hole and made another bogey for a 65, leaving him one shot behind.
"I thought I was going to shoot a lot lower than I did," Mickelson said. "I didn't expect to play 1 over coming in. But I'm not going to complain because I made a lot of good putts on the front."
Kang and Iwata were at 11-under 132.
Iwata, who tied a major championship record with a 63 at the PGA Championship last year at Whistling Straits, had a 66 at Pebble Beach.
Mickelson, Freddie Jacobson (69 at Spyglass Hill) and Chez Reavie (70 at Pebble Beach) were one shot to par behind at 10 under, while Justin Rose had a 68 at Monterey Peninsula and was at 9 under.
Jordan Spieth failed to birdie any of the par 5s at Monterey Peninsula -- he is 1 under on the par 5s this week even though he could reach all of them in two shots -- and his round of 2 birdies and 16 pars put him at 3-under 140 and 8 shots out of the lead.
"I'm 1 under on the par 5s, and from where I've been, they have pretty much all been par 4s for me," Spieth said. "So it almost feels like I'm playing them 7 over."
Jason Day had a 66 at Monterey Peninsula to get within five shots of the lead. Patrick Reed, playing alongside Mickelson, had six birdies in a seven-hole stretch on the back nine and also was at 6 under.
Andrew Landry (Arkansas Razorbacks) shot a 1-over 73 at Pebble Beach (143). Bryce Molder (Conway) had a 4-over 76 at Pebble Beach (147) as did David Lingmerth (Razorbacks) (148) and Ken Duke (Arkadelphia, Henderson State) had a 2-over 74 at Spyglass (152).
EUROPEAN TOUR
Michael ahead by 2
PRETORIA, South Africa -- Charl Schwartzel made a charge up the leaderboard at the European Tour's Tshwane Open, going 6 under in his second round to sit two shots off the lead.
Schwartzel had four birdies and an eagle in his 64 to move to 5 under overall and second behind South African compatriot Anthony Michael.
Michael carded a 1-under 69 to set the clubhouse target before a thunderstorm and then hail forced a suspension in play at Pretoria Country Club.
Daniel Im of the United States (68) and Theunis Spangenberg (71) of South Africa were tied for third on 4 under alongside Haydn Porteous, who won the tour's Joburg Open last month.
Overnight leader Justin Harding appeared to have revived his challenge with a hole-in-one on the par-3 No. 14 after starting with successive bogeys. He had four more bogeys and a double bogey for a 5-over 75 to slip to a tie for seventh.
CHAMPIONS TOUR
Langer leads by 4
NAPLES, Fla. -- Bernhard Langer shot a 10-under 62 to take a four-stroke lead in the PGA Tour Champions' Chubb Classic at TwinEagles.
Langer, 58, made 11 birdies, including five consecutive birdies from Nos. 3-7 and Nos. 14-18. Using a long putter, he made a 35-footer on No. 9 and a 40-footer on No. 17.
Langer went on to win in 2013 after also opening with a 62. In the past seven years in Naples, Langer has two victories, two second-place finishes, a tie for third and a tie for fourth. He was in contention last year before withdrawing to attend to a family matter.
Jay Haas was second. Jeff Maggert was third at 67, and Fred Couples was at 68 along with Kenny Perry, Kevin Sutherland, Steve Lowery, Scott Hoch and Michael Allen.
Sports on 02/13/2016