Bhatia and Hisatsune share Pebble Beach lead. Travis Kelce and amateurs head home

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Far removed from the false hopes Taylor Swift would make an appearance at Pebble Beach, Akshay Bhatia and Ryo Hisatsune went about their business quietly at Spyglass Hill and wound up with a share of the lead Friday in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-am.

Bhatia was bogey-free over two days at Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill, both dry days with a mild breeze and soft greens that allowed for good scoring on both courses. He had six birdies and chipped in from 50 feet for eagle on the 14th hole on his way to a 64.

Hisatsune, who opened with a 62 at Pebble Beach, stumbled in the middle of his round with consecutive bogeys, which he offset with enough birdies (and one eagle) before and after for a 67.

They were at 15-under 129, the lowest 36-hole since the tournament moved to a two-course rotation in 2024 as a signature event.

Rickie Fowler (64) and Sam Burns (67), both at Spyglass Hill, were one shot behind. Xander Schauffele, Jordan Spieth and defending champion Rory McIlroy were lurking. Scottie Scheffler finally got it going by playing his last seven holes in 5 under for a 66, though the world's No. 1 player was still nine shots behind going into the weekend.

“I’d say ‘inched’ would be the operative word there,” Scheffler said of his progress. “We’ll see how it shakes out at the end of the day. I mean, it’s going to take two pretty special rounds, really three special rounds, but you’re never out of it. We’ll see what happens with the weather.”

The big speculation Friday was not so much the weather, but if Swift was going to show up to watch her fiancé, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, playing at Pebble Beach.

There was a big crowd. There was a big buzz. There was no Swift, who is said to be in town, but not on the golf course. She still led to a spike in ticket sales — $60,000 worth when Kelce was announced as part of the amateur field, $21,000 in the 12-hour window before he played Pebble.

“It was busy without her,” said Mackenzie Hughes, who played in the group. “With her, I think it would have literally been pandemonium.”

The only pandemonium was keeping track of who was going low and where. The best of the weather was Thursday, and it's no surprise the leading four players played Pebble Beach that day.

“I thought that yesterday was a good day to be out here,” Spieth said after he wrapped up a 68 at Pebble Beach. “Got decently challenging towards the end here today, but the greens are so receptive and they’re not super fast out here right now.

“Pebble’s going to show more of its teeth the next two days.”

There is no 36-hole cut at this signature event, except for Kelce, Pau Gasol, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the rest of the amateurs.

Bhatia, who tied for third in the Phoenix Open last week, now has gone 44 holes without a bogey over his last three rounds.

“Bogey-free around these golf courses is great,” Bhatia said. “Greens can get bumpy, you can get some really tough putts with how much slope’s on the greens. So I’ve been really steady inside 5 to 6 feet. ... It's just fun when you feel like you're in a groove.”

McIlroy has been trying to get there in his first U.S. start this year. He had a pair of three-putt double bogeys from the 4-foot range that slowed him at Spyglass Hill. He started well and was trending early on the back nine at Pebble Beach until he shanked a chip into a bunker from an awkward spot right of the green on the par-5 14th, leading to a bogey.

“I feel like I’ve been a little bit wasteful the last two days and maybe not capitalized on those great starts,” said McIlroy, who was six shots behind.

Scheffler felt he wasn't scoring very well Thursday, and he got more of the same at Spyglass Hill until a string of good shots, good putts and a chip in for eagle on the par-5 seventh hole. He was nine shots behind, with another challenge trying to extend his streak of 17 straight finishes in the top 10. He was in a tie for 33rd.

They all head to Pebble Beach for the final two rounds, and Hisatsune figures he might not see the same course where he shot 62 on Thursday.

“Hopefully, no wind,” Hisatsune said.

One thing was certain — the wind had a better chance of showing up than Taylor Swift.

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Rory McIlroy, from Northern Ireland, reacts after hitting from the 17th tee at Spyglass Hill Golf Course during the first round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament in Pebble Beach, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Scottie Scheffler hits from the ninth fairway at Spyglass Hill Golf Course during the second round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament in Pebble Beach, Calif., Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs checks on Edenne Flinn — who was hit in the head by Kelce's golf ball during play — on the 18th hole in the second round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in Pebble Beach, Calif., on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Ryo Hisatsune, from Japan, prepares to putt on the ninth hole at Spyglass Hill Golf Course during the second round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament in Pebble Beach, Calif., Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Akshay Bhatia hits from a bunker toward the fourth fairway at Spyglass Hill Golf Course during the second round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament in Pebble Beach, Calif., Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Federal immigration officials plan to spend $38.3 billion to boost detention capacity to 92,600 beds, a document released Friday shows, as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement quietly purchases warehouses to turn into detention and processing facilities.

Republican New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte posted the document online amid tension over ICE's plans to convert a warehouse in Merrimack into a 500-bed processing center.

It said ICE plans 16 regional processing centers with a population of 1,000 to 1,500 detainees, whose stays would average three to seven days. Another eight large-scale detention centers would be capable of housing 7,000 to 10,000 detainees for periods averaging less than 60 days.

The document also refers to the acquisition of 10 existing “turnkey” facilities.

Plans call for all of them to be up and running by November as immigration officials roll out a massive $45 billion expansion of detention facilities financed by President Donald Trump’s recent tax-cutting law.

More than 75,000 immigrants were being detained by ICE as of mid-January, up from 40,000 when Trump took office a year earlier, according to federal data released last week.

The newly released document refers to “non-traditional facilities” and comes as ICE has quietly bought at least seven warehouses — some larger than 1 million square feet (92,900 square meters) — in the past few weeks in Arizona, Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Texas.

Warehouse purchases in six cities were scuttled when buyers decided not to sell under pressure from activists. Several other deals in places like New York are imminent, however.

City officials are frequently unable to get details from ICE until a property sale is finalized.

Tensions boiled to the surface after interim ICE Director Todd Lyons testified Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security “has worked with Gov. Ayotte” and provided her with an economic impact summary.

Ayotte said that assertion was “simply not true” and the summary was sent hours after Lyons testified.

The document mistakenly refers to the “ripple effects to the Oklahoma economy” and revenue generated by state sales and income taxes, neither of which exist in New Hampshire.

“Director Lyons’ comments today are another example of the troubling pattern of issues with this process,” Ayotte said. “Officials from the Department of Homeland Security continue to provide zero details of their plans for Merrimack, never mind providing any reports or surveys.”

DHS did not respond to questions about Ayotte's comments or the new document. But it previously confirmed that it was looking for more detention space, although it objected to calling the sites “warehouses,” saying in a statement that they would be “very well structured detention facilities meeting our regular detention standards.”

Associated Press writer Holly Ramer contributed.

A massive 826,780-square-foot warehouse sits illuminated Feb. 12, 2026, in the El Paso suburb of Socorro, Texas, that was recently purchased by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for $122.8 million. (ASP Photo/Morgan Lee)

FILE - John Miller, an organizer with One Circle Community Coalition, shows a variance request while speaking about plans to oppose converting a warehouse into an ICE detention facility Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026, at a community hall in Social Circle, Ga. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

A massive 826,780-square-foot warehouse sits illuminated Feb. 12, 2026, in the El Paso suburb of Socorro, Texas, that was recently purchased by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for $122.8 million. (ASP Photo/Morgan Lee)