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From floundering to front-runner

By Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN.com

Friday, June 19, 2009

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- Your U.S. Open leader wears a white painter's hat. You don't know whether to ask him about his opening 36-hole scoring record or for advice on gloss versus semigloss. "Something different," Ricky Barnes said. Barnes was talking about his cap, not his you're-kidding-me two-round total of 132, which puts him at 8 under par and, incredibly enough, atop the Open leaderboard. He was one of 14 golfers who hadn't teed off yet Saturday night when rain halted play in the third ro ...

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