Kruger shot 66 on the first day

Kruger shot 66 on the first day, despite damaging his eight-iron and being unable to use it for much of his round -- a handicap he blamed for a double bogey on the last hole.

"I got it fixed, and I actually used it once," he said of the club. "Yesterday I probably would have used it six times after I bent it. So you know, Murphy's Law."

And he said he hoped to continue his hot form into the weekend at the US$6.1 million event, which is co-sanctioned by the US PGA and the AsianTour.

"I think I'll probably just try to do the same. I've been playing well. I can't really play much better than I am at the moment," Kruger said. "The key is to hit the fairways, hit the greens, and take it from there."

It also cemented Ibanez's place in Yankees lore

On Wednesday, Ibanez topped them all with one swing. Well, two swings actually that, in the words of Yankees outfielder Nick Swisher, "looked absolutely identical. They were both rockets." The first connected with a Jim  Johnsonfastball with one out in the ninth inning and sent it screaming into the seats in right field to tie the game at 2. The second came to start the 12th inning, against Brian Matusz, and landed in the second deck of the right field stands to become a walk-off home run that gave the Yankees a 3-2 victory and a 2-1 series lead.

It also cemented Ibanez's place in Yankees lore, and not just because he is the first person in postseason history to hit two home runs in a game that he didn't start. And not just because this was the third time he had hit a game-tying home run in the ninth inning or later in just three weeks. And not even because he gave the new Stadium, now in its fourth year, the kind of unforgettable, unexpected and electric October moment that for so many decades defined its departed neighbor across the street.