The golfers are stacked up behind Lucas Glover, thick as teeny boppers at a Hannah Montana concert.

The defending champion, Boo Weekley, is one off Glover's 132 total after a second-round 64 Friday in the Verizon Heritage. Past winners Stewart Cink (7 under for the tournament), Aaron Baddeley (6 under) and Davis Love III (5 under) are in the chase. So is Glover's former Clemson teammate, Jonathan Byrd. Anthony Kim is just two back, and another golfer seeking his first PGA Tour win, Jay Williamson, is four behind.

So at first blush, Harbour Town Golf Links has been caught with her kilt down. Forty-two golfers broke 70 in Thursday's opening round. Thirty-nine, including three who didn't even survive the 36-hole cut, did so on Friday.

With 25 golfers within five strokes, Glover's lead is not safe.

But rest assured, Loren Roberts' is.

The 1996 champion posted a 19-under 265 total, and only four times in the 11 tournaments since has any golfer come within four strokes.

Nonetheless, you have to think that with no wind, nearly perfect greens, a leader already on pace to break the record and a gaggle of golfers poised to pass him if he stumbles, this could be the year, right?

"It ain't a 20-under-par tournament," five-time winner Love said flatly, after describing his second-round 71 as "pretty boring."

Indeed, the 18-, 36- and 54-hole scoring records each have fallen since 1996, but Roberts' mark remains firmly in place. It's no great secret why -- the greens typically get firmer and faster as any PGA Tour event progresses, leaders typically play both weekend rounds in more difficult afternoon conditions at Harbour Town and pressure mounts with each successive stroke.

Weekley sits at 7 under after two rounds, two shots better than his 36-hole total last season, when tournament conditions got downright wicked over the weekend and forced a Monday finish. Weekley said the course is playing at least two strokes easier this year, and Jim Furyk, who has four top-15 finishes in nine Heritage starts, doesn't think his fellow pros have taken advantage.

"(T)he scores really aren't that particularly low," said Furyk, 6 under after his second straight 68. "There's been a couple of good ones here and there. It's playing nice right now. It's not tremendously firm and fast yet. The wind hasn't blown that much. You'd think the scores would be lower than they are."

Anyone impressed by the scoring barrage in the first two rounds probably will say the same thing at the end of play Sunday.