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MIAMI: Tiger Woods rolled in two eagles en route to a six-under 66
in the second round of the WGC-CA Championship Friday as he goes for
his sixth-straight win on the USPGA Tour.
Showing no signs of slowing down, Woods made
three birdies against one bogey and is just one stroke adrift of
leader Geoff Ogilvy, who carded a 67 to improve his overall score to
12-under 132.
Woods, who played the par-five holes in a total
of four-under, said that was the key to his round.
“The par-fives are where you’ve got to
score,” he said. “With today’s wind, you could hit two [of
them] with irons, so you’ve got to make sure you take care of
those.
“Play those in three-or-four-under and the
rest of the round in one-or-two under and you’re looking pretty
good.”
Aiming for his sixth consecutive USPGA
tournament victory, Woods finished strong with birdies at his final
two holes, sinking a sharply breaking 20-footer at the ninth to
punctuate another dynamic round.
Woods has not lost in more than six months,
winning five times on the PGA Tour and the European Tour’s Dubai
Desert Classic.
This World Golf Championships event has become
Woods’ private playground as he has won it six times in eight
attempts on six different courses.
He started Friday two strokes behind first round
leaders Ogilvy and Miguel Jimenez, but it did not take long for that
to change as he eagled his third hole, the par-five 12th, with a
40-foot bunker shot.
“I had a simple little bunker shot and kept
telling myself to make sure I hit it hard enough,” he said.
“When it landed, I thought that looks pretty good and about two
feet out it was center cut.”
Woods added a birdie at the par-four 16th,
before picking up another eagle at the par-five first, where he
busted a 330-yard drive before hitting a well-judged seven-iron that
nestled up little more than six feet from the pin.
He showed he was human as well. Trying to avoid
a water hazard on the par-four third, Woods pulled his drive behind
a tree and had little choice but to lay up with his second shot.
But that was the first and only blemish on his
card.
The 2006 US Open champion, Ogilvy gathered five
birdies with no bogies on the day.
Adam Scott’s 68 brought him to nine-under for
the tournament, placing him three shots back in third.
-- AFP
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