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Broadaway, Skinner miss cut

• Albany native Josh Broadaway’s putter lets him down, while River Pointe Golf Pro Sonny Skinner’s triple bogey does him in as neither make the cut at the Nationwide Tour’s South Georgia Classic.

Scott Chancey

VALDOSTA — Albany native Josh Broadaway and River Pointe Golf Club pro Sonny Skinner have the weekend off.

Broadaway, trying to make his third consecutive cut on the Nationwide Tour, could not fully recover Friday from his first-round 76 and carded a 1-over 73 (149 total) at Kinderlou Forest Golf Club’s South Georgia Classic.

Meanwhile, Skinner was even par after Thursday, but a triple bogey on No. 5 put him in as big a hole as the cavern he hit into on his first shot, falling back to a 78 (150).

 “That kind of put me behind the eight ball,” Skinner said of the par-3 fifth. “Bogeying like that will do that to you. This isn’t a course where I’m going to get many birdies to begin with.”

The cut line Friday was a two-day total of 145 (1-over). Sixty-eight players out of 155 made the cut.

“I played all right,” Broadaway said. “I just didn’t make any putts, I didn’t play good enough.”

Florida native Bryan DeCorso played consistently in both rounds, scoring a 69 Friday and leading with an overall 137.

His second round was jumpstarted by back-to-back birdies and he was 2 under rounding the turn.

“I’m actually happier with my round (Friday) than I was (Thursday) even though it was one stroke higher,” DeCorso said. “It was really windy out there. There were some tough pins … If you short-sided yourself, you could be in some big trouble.”

Marco Dawson (68, 139 total) and David Miller (70, 139) are tied for second. First-round leader Garth Mulroy is now tied for 10th after a second-round 74(141).

If only things had gone that well for Broadaway and Skinner.

Starting on the back nine, Broadaway made the turn at 1 over and moved back to even with a 20-foot birdie putt on No. 1. He then birdied the par-4 sixth to go 1 under but missed a four-footer for par on the seventh and also bogeyed the ninth.

Skinner, who already had bogeyed the third, used a 7-iron on his first shot toward the fifth green and thought he made a good shot.

“The wind was at my back and I thought it would go,” Skinner began, “but it was 8 yards short and landed in that cavern.”

He had to take a drop there, and then missed a key birdie opportunity at the seventh hole and bogeyed, and also bogeyed the 15th.

“It was all done by then, though,” Skinner said. “I’m just glad I’ve got a job. I enjoy the competition, though. I don’t enjoy shooting a bad score. You just take the bad with the good and move on to the next tournament.”

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