SAN FRANCISCO – If Preston Stout had a choice, he would’ve spent more time at the lake this summer. As a junior, it wasn’t uncommon for the Richardson, Texas, native to skip tournaments, including the premier AJGA invitationals, to fish or hunt. Even now, he winters at his family’s property, a few hundred acres of land inside the Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge in southern Oklahoma.

“That’s my therapy,” Stout says. “For other people, it might be something else, but for me, it’s hunting and fishing.”

Right now, though, Stout has just been playing too, dang well to take much time off.

And yet, he still made it the lake on Tuesday – the Olympic Club’s Lake Course, that is.

The rising Oklahoma State junior’s hot stretch continued with a 4-under 66 in cool, breezy conditions to solidify

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