Do the Math: Mark Calcavecchia Assured Second Place After 36 Holes?

Like outright leader Louis Oosthuizen, 50 year old Mark Calcavecchia has been the beneficiary of a favorable, early tee time at St. Andrews.  Going out in the wee hours of the American morning, both posted great scores of 67 before the wind rolled into the Old Course.  

It got so windy that a one hour and five minute high wind delay stopped play earlier this morning.  Though play has resumed, scoring has not returned because conditions do not resemble what Calc and Oosthuizen saw earlier.  It is very likely that these two men will be the final pairing tomorrow afternoon - or whenever today's delay pushes the start of the third round for the leaders.

Calc's round was well balanced - no bogeys, five birdies.  There were two birdies on the front and three on the back, including a sharp finish at the 18th.

To be fair to the other old guy in the field that is playing well, American Tom Lehman posted 68 earlier as well to finish the opening 36 at -5.  Lehman, too, birdied the last to turn in his round.

Both cannot really move up the leaderboard at all.  Oosthuizen (pronounced woost-HAY-zen) stands in the way of Calc by five.  Lehman is blocked by those two, as well as the duo of Englishmen Paul Casey and Lee Westwood, who are both through two rounds on -6.

It just so happens that both are former Open champions ('89, '96 respectively) and that their only major wins came in this championship.  Their combined age now?  100.