Southern Farm Bureau Classic Round Two: I still say there's no way for DJ

Is it Groundhog Day in Mississippi? Only I see D J Trahan still leading by two? The figure that tells us it isn’t is that his price has halved overnight to about 4. But there’s a head of steam building up behind him and a flick through his record suggests the strong possibility of a wobbly round to come.

Intriguingly one of his challengers, Joe Durant, heads my overall performance table, with the kind of profile tailor-made for this event.

You’ve also got an old hand in the shape of Brad Faxon up there, although his current form really isn’t much to shout home about, and there’s a few others, including Skip Kendall who I mentioned yesterday, who could be in the mix come Sunday.

There’s even some excited forum chatter of David Duval capping his redemption with a fighting finish although I doubt it.

But talking of redemption, the second-round story I like best concerns a young man who came into the PGA Tour full of promise, only to suffer the kind of season of his worst nightmares. Look through the record of Australian Steven Bowditch this season and you’ll see cut after disqualification after withdrawal. Only once in 19 events has he posted a result - 76th in the Reno-Tahoe Open. Things got so bad he had to go back to Australia to recharge his physical and mental batteries.

Yet here he is seriously in the money at T10 on day two. Good luck Steven. That’s my Tin Cup moment for this week.