His 36-hole total of 3-under 139 comes a week after his girlfriend, Nataliya Guseva, was runner-up in the Lotte Championship in Hawaii on the LPGA Tour. Guseva has made history of her own as the first Russian to earn an LPGA card. She decided to skip the LPGA event in Florida this week to make good on a pledge she made with Eroshenko.

Egor Eroshenko already made history as the first Russian to play on the PGA Tour. It got even better Friday when he became the first Russian to make the cut.