Perry & Forsman tie for lead

Sorenstam misses cut by four shots

Kenny Perry has his concentration back, and is at the top of the leaderboard going into the weekend at the Colonial.

Perry had a bogey-free 6-under 64 Friday, the best round of the day. He shares the 36-hole lead with Dan Forsman (66) at 8-under, one stroke ahead of Jim Furyk (65).

There were 76 players who made the cut at 1-over. Annika Sorenstam, the first woman in 58 years to play on the PGA Tour, finished 5-over.

Last week, Perry was 7-over after two rounds at the Byron Nelson Championship in nearby Irving, missing the cut for only the second time this season.

"Last week was a week where I don't know what the deal was. I just couldn't concentrate for some reason. I just wasn't ready to play," Perry said. "I just had good vibes coming into this week."

He spent last weekend in Dallas, not playing golf, but relaxing "and just tried to get my head together for this week." Plus, Perry has played well at Colonial, where he tied for second last year.

After a 3-foot birdie putt at the 427-yard 18th to end his first nine, Perry made an eagle on the 565-yard No. 1, hitting a 3-wood from the fairway to 40 feet and making the putt. He hit a 4-iron approach to a foot for a birdie on the 470-yard 5th, the second-toughest hole on the course.

Perry hit 16 of 18 greens and 11 of 14 fairways.

"It's always good to be in the lead here. Because this is not a catch-up kind of golf course," he said. "It's the kind of golf course you get out there, you kind of hang on."

Forsman started his round by missing a 6-foot birdie on the 404-yard 10th, then bogeyed the 609-yard 11th with a three-putt after finding a bunker and the rough with his first two shots. He finally got on a roll with consecutive birdies after that.

"Not too tough when you're making putts and chipping in and doing some fun stuff," Forsman said. "I played well. Started out a little nervous, I missed the cut last week."

At the 400-yard 2nd, his 11th hole of the day, Forsman chipped in from 50 feet.

PHIL'S SNOWMAN: Phil Mickelson was thrilling as ever on No. 9 Friday, although this isn't what he had in mind. He walked to the tee with a share of the lead, and left the green with a quadruple-bogey 8.

It started with his tee shot - a driver that started toward the tennis courts, faded back over the trees and wound up in a bunker. After a 15-minute wait on a ruling ahead of him, Mickelson's wedge from 67 yards came up short and into the water.

He took his drop and again went after the pin, tucked close to the water's edge. It wasn't even close, splashing down 20 feet short of land.

"I just tried to play an explosion shot, and it didn't come out right," said Mickelson, 3-under after his 70.

His next shot was 40 feet long, and he two-putted for his snowman.

Mark Calcavecchia also dunked two balls in the water at 9, which ranked the toughest Friday at an average of 4.33 strokes.

Calcavecchia had two more bogeys and finished with a 75, 10 strokes worse than his opening round.

CAMERA PATROL: Cameras are not allowed in the gallery once the tournament begins, a policy that is often ignored.

Jim MacKay, the caddie for Phil Mickelson, took matters into his own hands. He spotted a man with a disposal camera, confronted him and asked the man to give him the camera.

MacKay handed it to a marshal with the instructions, "Don't give it back to him."

ANXIOUS CAMPBELL: With his second straight 67, Chad Campbell put himself in position for a possible weekend charge. At 6-under, he was tied for fourth, just two strokes off the lead.

Campbell has already had runner-up finishes this year at Tucson and the Honda Classic. And in one of his three tournaments in 2001, he was the runner-up at the Southern Farm Bureau Classic.

He's eager to get his first PGA Tour win.

"But I feel like if I keep putting myself in the right position having chances to win, the more times you do it, sooner or later one of them has got to go your way," Campbell said. "So that's the way I'm looking at it."

Campbell had a bogey-free round Friday and hit 16 of 18 greens, but wasn't close to the hole on most of them. He managed just three birdies and had 31 putts.

Campbell, who lives in Dallas, has made 13 of 15 cuts and won $1.4 million, 10th on the money list. He was 81st with $825,474 last year.

DIVOTS: Tom Lehman missed the cut at 2-over, meaning he will have to qualify to get into the U.S. Open. ... Jim Furyk's 65 included eight birdies (four on each side) and three bogeys. "I had a little bit of a hot and cold day with the putter from long distances," he said. ... Keith Clearwater was disqualified when he failed to show up for his 1:43 p.m. tee time Friday. He shot 76 in the first round. ... Garcia (3-over) missed the cut for the second straight year since winning in 2001 in his first Colonial appearance. ... Rod Curl played in his 26th Colonial since winning in 1974. He had rounds of 78 and 76 and missed out on the weekend for the 13th straight year (11 cuts, two withdrawals).

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