PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. -- For the better part of the last 18 months, Scott McCarron was content to be Mr. Mom back home in Reno.
He cooked breakfast in the mornings. He shuttled his two daughters to school and acting classes. He even coached their soccer team. What McCarron didn't do, though, was play golf.
The three-time PGA TOUR champion missed nearly 18 months of competition after having surgery in August of 2006 to reattach the radialis brevis tendon on his right elbow. It was nearly a year to the day before he could hit balls without pain.
McCarron is feeling much better, though, after Friday's 65 left him five shots behind Phil Mickelson at the midway point of the Northern Trust Open. He's tied for fourth at 5 under with Chad Campbell, Scott Verplank, Vaughn Taylor and Billy Mayfair.
It was McCarron's lowest round since he posted back-to-back 65s on the weekend at the FBR Open -- way back in 2005. And it came on one of the UCLA grad's absolute favorite golf courses in Riviera Country Club.
"I really have no business being in the hunt or near the lead, but I feel good coming in here," McCarron said. "I just love this place and ... lo and behold, I played pretty good today."
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