Phil Mickelson jumps over a rope to get to his ball in the rough on the second hole during the second round of the Pebble Beach National Pro Am Friday. Mickelson is tied with Jim Furyk for the lead after the golfers recorded a two-round total of 12-under par 132.

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Phil Mickelson is so happy with his game that he wants to keep playing.

His original plan at the start of the year was to play four straight tournaments, all of which he has won in the past, take a week off from the Nissan Open at Riviera, then finish off the West Coast swing at the Accenture Match Play Championship.

But after two rounds in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am that left him atop the leaderboard with Jim Furyk, Mickelson signed up for Riviera next week.

"I'm starting to play well, so I want to play a little bit more," Mickelson said after catching a good break in the windy weather and making the most of it with a 5-under 67 at Pebble Beach. "I want to try to get into contention a couple more times because I wasn't in contention the first three weeks. Also, I'm real excited about how I'm driving the ball, and Riviera is a course you have to drive the ball at."

Riviera can wait.

Up next for the Masters champion is Spyglass Hill on Saturday, then the final round at Pebble Beach on Sunday.

Mickelson is a two-time winner of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, and although Furyk is highest-ranked player (No. 2) in the field, all eyes are on Lefty.

He continued to make big strides Friday on a cold, wet — but luckily for him, not windy — day at Pebble Beach. He made three straight birdies on the back nine, none of them closer than 10 feet, then finished off his round with an up-and-down for birdie on the 18th that allowed him to catch Furyk at 12-under 132.

Furyk was at Poppy Hills, took advantage of the five par 5s and shot 65.

That gave the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am a good 1-2 punch at the top from the two highest-ranked players in the field.

Furyk (No. 2) and Mickelson (No. 6) had a three-shot lead over rookie John Mallinger and Kevin Sutherland, who turned in the best round of the dreary afternoon by firing off 10 birdies for a 63 at Spyglass Hill.

Sutherland thought briefly about the course record of 62 at Spyglass, just long enough to snap-hook his 3-wood into the trees and out of play on the par-5 seventh. He reloaded with a two-stroke penalty, reached the green in two, escaped with a bogey and didn't let one bad hole take away from his round.