LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) CareerBuilder Challenge leader Andrew Landry was quick to point out the windy forecast.

After two perfect days for scoring, wind at 15-20 mph with gusts to 30 mph was expected Saturday with the temperature only reaching the mid-60s after coming close to 80 on Friday.

And Landry and five others in the top nine were headed up the hill to PGA West’s once-feared, Pete Dye-designed Stadium Course for the weekend.

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”It’s going to be a tough day,” Landry said. ”I know that golf course can get a little mean. Especially, those last three or four holes coming down the stretch.”

In calm conditions Friday, Landry shot a 7-under 65 on PGA West’s Jack Nicklaus Tournament Course to reach 16 under. He opened with a 63 on Thursday at La Quinta Country Club.

”It’s like a dome out here,” Landry said.

Jon Rahm, the first-round leader after a 62 at La Quinta, was a stroke back. He had two early bogeys in a 67 on the Nicklaus layout.

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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) Thomas Pieters shot a second-round 65 to take a one-stroke lead at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship on Friday as top-ranked Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy moved into contention.

Johnson followed up his ragged opening-round 72 with a bogey-free 8-under 64, tied for the low round of the tournament, and was four shots back. He won by eight shots two weeks ago at the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii.

McIlroy, playing his first event since October, finished with an eagle on the par-5 18th and was three shots behind Pieters after a 66. The former world No. 1 is coming off a winless 2017 and plans a busy schedule in the run-up to the Masters.

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Jorge Campillo of Spain trailed Pieters by one shot after a 64. Last year’s Race to Dubai winner, Tommy Fleetwood – who played with Johnson and McIlroy – was another shot back, along with Alexander Levy and Ross Fisher.

LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) Andrew Landry topped the crowded CareerBuilder Challenge leaderboard after another low-scoring day in the sunny Coachella Valley.

Landry shot a 7-under 65 on Thursday on PGA West’s Jack Nicklaus Tournament Course to reach 16 under. He opened with a 63 on Thursday at La Quinta Country Club.

Jon Rahm, the first-round leader after a 62 at La Quinta, was a stroke back. He had two early bogeys in a 67 on the Nicklaus layout.

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Jason Kokrak was 14 under after a 67 at Nicklaus. Two-time major champion Zach Johnson was 13 under along with Michael Kim and Martin Piller. Johnson had a 64 at Nicklaus.

Landry, Rahm, Kokrak and Johnson will finish the rotation Saturday at PGA West’s Stadium Course, also the site of the final round.

Golf Digest Senior Photographer Dom Furore brings you Part Five of his series on mountain golf, traveling high into the Andes of South America.

DALLAS (AP) U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka has a wrist injury that will keep him out until the Masters.

Koepka is not sure how he injured his left wrist. He was coming off a nine-shot victory at the Dunlop Phoenix in Japan when he noticed discomfort at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas the first week of December. A month of rest didn’t help. Koepka said at Kapalua it was still bothering him, and he says he probably shouldn’t have played.

Doctors discovered a partial tear in the tendon. The recovery is expected to be eight to 12 weeks of rest and therapy. The injury means Koepka will miss Phoenix and Pebble Beach, along with the Honda Classic and two World Golf Championships ahead of the Masters.

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Grayson Murray had no trouble making headlines in his first full season on the PGA Tour. Though the 24-year-old played some great golf in the opening round of the CareerBuilder Challenge, tying the round of the day on PGA West's Stadium course with a 7-under 65, once again it wasn't his play that grabbed the most attention on Thursday.
You probably remember the gigantic-faced bunker from years past: The 20-foot-high face of this massive hazard that sits to the left of the par-5 16th hole has become a popular spot for players going for the green in two. And when they find Pete Dye's strategically placed landform, it makes for some memorable moments.
Murray's slide down the embankment of the massive bunker at the 16th hole was quite impressive. He described the decision to reporters after the round: “My caddie had told me just to slide down and I was like, 'No way, dude.' And then I didn't want to walk around, so I just slid down, which was kind of fun…

Matt JelonekReaders of a certain age — i.e. mine — may remember that when Jesse “The Body” Ventura was elected governor of Minnesota in 1998 it was a monster shock that more or less marked the end of the republic. Ventura was the destruction of political reality, the very idea that some former lady-boa-wearing pink-sunglasses-approving mustachioed spandexed cornball could actually run a state, a real live state, with factories and families in it. It was simple insanity. Ventura was suddenly an instant national celebrity outside of the world of sexless male teenagers; he was on the cover of Time. It was hard to process if you watched any wrestling at all (which I did), but most importantly it was EXCEEDINGLY UNUSUAL. Now, not even two lousy decades later, Ventura seems kind of adorable, since we can read headlines that say “Hulk Hogan Announces He’s Not Running for Senate” and fail to register them as anything much more than mildly curious.
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It's been 17 excruciating years since Super Troopers first blessed American males, aged 13-22, with its debauched highway hi-jinx, but the wait is finally over. After what feels like eons of rumors, non-starters, Kickstarters, and hoaxes, Super Troopers 2 is now officially official, dropping its first trailer on Thursday much to delight of a bunch of 30-year-olds who, despite being full-blown adults now, haven't grown much in the whole maturity department since 8th grade. Pull over and check it out:
As you'll see, the gang (Broken Lizard comedy group IRL) makes a full return, with Rabbit, Mac, Jeff, O'Hagen, and, of course, Favra, heading north of the border to reclaim a small Quebec town that actually lies on American soil from a bunch of pissed-off Canadian Mounties. In the process Favra kills a bald eagle with an AK-47, gets in a fight with a bear in a port-a-potty, and, well, I think you pretty much get the picture. So come for the ridiculous slapstick, question..

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