Futures Tour Saturday: The Waiting Is the Hardest Part

A rain-soaked Albany, NY, golf course gave up a lot of birdies before play was eventually called this afternoon in the midst of the 2nd round of the ILOVENY Championship. Sunny Oh (-5 through 9 holes) and Jin Young Pak (-2 through 7 holes) pulled within 1 stroke of 1st-round leader Sarah-Jane Kenyon, whose 1st birdie of the day on the 7th hole moved her to -8 just before the round was suspended. Rather than give you the leaderboard itself, though, I'll give you the money list and how players on it stand this week (top 10s in bold):

#1 Vicky Hurst: E through 7, -3, T6
#2 Mindy Kim: E through 9, -2, T9
#3 M.J. Hur: -2 through 12, -1, T12
4 Jin Young Pak: -2 through 7, -7, T2
#5 Song Yi Choi: +1 through 11, +3, T29

Fighting for a (high-priority status) card:

#6 Jessica Shepley: +1 through 13, +3, T29
#7 Leah Wigger: 68, +3, T29
#8 Sarah-Jane Kenyon: -1 through 7, -8, 1st
#9 Kim Welch: 70, +8, T83
#10 Haeji Kang: -1 through 7, -4, 5th

Fighting for a (low-priority status) card:

#11 Mo Martin: 70, +7, T74
#12 Sophia Sheridan: -1 through 9, -3, T6
#13 Lisa Ferrero: +3 through 6, +6, T58
#14 Gerina Mendoza: +1 through 12, +3, T29
#15 Kristina Tucker: 69, +2, T23
#16 Stephanie Otteson: +1 through 11, +3, T29
#17 Samantha Richdale: 72, +12, T100
#18 Chella Choi: E through 10, -1, T12
#19 Sunny Oh: -5 through 9, -7, T2
#20 Sara Brown: 70, +6, T58

Fighting for a free pass to Final Qualifying School:

#21 Caroline Larsson: -1 through 7, +2, T23
#22 Ashley Prange: +2 through 11, +4, T40
#23 Briana Vega: 69, +3, T29
#24 Maru Martinez: +2 through 9, E, T17
#25 Danah Ford: 72, +6, T58
#26 Jenny Suh, -3 through 9, -5, 4th

They're supposed to go off bright and early tomorrow morning. We'll see who can keep their momentum going and who can take advantage of the delay to turn around their tournaments!

[Update 1 (9/7/08, 4:04 pm): Here are the 2nd-round results. As you can see, Oh, Suh, Kang, and Pak stumbled around the course this morning, Hur kept up her good play, and the other highly-ranked players in the top 10 last night held steady. But most of the field had trouble: +3 is now T24. That's 27 players within 10 shots of Kenyon, so really, who knows what can happen this afternoon?]

[Update 2 (4:08 pm): The 2nd-round recap has some good details. But they were too nice to note that the highest-ranked player to miss the cut was #9 Kim Welch.]