Woods has it tough as 2nd round resumes
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August 15, 2010, Sunday
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TIGER Woods made the turn at even par in his second round yesterday, unable to make up any ground on the leaders at the PGA Championship.
The world No. 1 had just one good look at a birdie in those nine holes.
Jim Furyk, meanwhile, had four birdies in his first five holes after play resumed in Haven, Wisconsin, yesterday.
He was at 6 under, two strokes behind clubhouse leader Matt Kuchar, with four holes left.
Half of the field returned to Whistling Straits early yesterday to finish their second rounds and maybe restore some order to the year's final major.
Thick fog delayed the start of play the first two days of the PGA Championship, wreaking havoc on tee times and further muddling what was already a wide-open championship. Only one player in the top 10 has won a major, and one player's best finish is a win on the United States Nationwide Tour.
Woods showed some signs of his old, masterful self in the first round only to return on Friday to the unpredictable play that's marked his woeful year. He scrambled for pars off a cart path, out of grass up to his knees and from a grassy knoll. When the horn sounded, he'd played six holes and made six pars, keeping him at 1 under.
Things weren't much better yesterday.
He bogeyed his first hole, the par-3 No. 7, missing right into a bunker and failing to make a 6-footer that would have saved par. He was a yard into the deep rough on No. 9 and had to hack into the fairway, but he saved par by making a 4-footer.
Few are playing Whistling Straits with more ease or confidence than Kuchar. He made only two bogeys in his first two rounds, along with eight birdies and an eagle. The American nearly holed out again from the 13th fairway again on Friday. He's hit 23 of 28 fairways, and needed only 52 putts.
"I'm very pleased with the way I've been playing," Kuchar said. "I'm putting well, staying out of trouble."
But his lead is far from safe, not with so many players chasing him and more bad weather on the horizon.
Bryce Molder, Kuchar's teammate at Georgia Tech, is three strokes behind his good friend after shooting 5-under 67.
Also at 5 under are Jason Dufner (66), 19-year-old Noh Seung-yul (71) of South Korea, big-hitting Dustin Johnson (68), Simon Khan (70), Rory McIlroy (68) and 2007 Masters champion Zach Johnson (70).
Phil Mickelson scrambled his way to a 69, putting him at 2 under - and very much alive in his quest to move to No. 1 in the world for the first time.
The world No. 1 had just one good look at a birdie in those nine holes.
Jim Furyk, meanwhile, had four birdies in his first five holes after play resumed in Haven, Wisconsin, yesterday.
He was at 6 under, two strokes behind clubhouse leader Matt Kuchar, with four holes left.
Half of the field returned to Whistling Straits early yesterday to finish their second rounds and maybe restore some order to the year's final major.
Thick fog delayed the start of play the first two days of the PGA Championship, wreaking havoc on tee times and further muddling what was already a wide-open championship. Only one player in the top 10 has won a major, and one player's best finish is a win on the United States Nationwide Tour.
Woods showed some signs of his old, masterful self in the first round only to return on Friday to the unpredictable play that's marked his woeful year. He scrambled for pars off a cart path, out of grass up to his knees and from a grassy knoll. When the horn sounded, he'd played six holes and made six pars, keeping him at 1 under.
Things weren't much better yesterday.
He bogeyed his first hole, the par-3 No. 7, missing right into a bunker and failing to make a 6-footer that would have saved par. He was a yard into the deep rough on No. 9 and had to hack into the fairway, but he saved par by making a 4-footer.
Few are playing Whistling Straits with more ease or confidence than Kuchar. He made only two bogeys in his first two rounds, along with eight birdies and an eagle. The American nearly holed out again from the 13th fairway again on Friday. He's hit 23 of 28 fairways, and needed only 52 putts.
"I'm very pleased with the way I've been playing," Kuchar said. "I'm putting well, staying out of trouble."
But his lead is far from safe, not with so many players chasing him and more bad weather on the horizon.
Bryce Molder, Kuchar's teammate at Georgia Tech, is three strokes behind his good friend after shooting 5-under 67.
Also at 5 under are Jason Dufner (66), 19-year-old Noh Seung-yul (71) of South Korea, big-hitting Dustin Johnson (68), Simon Khan (70), Rory McIlroy (68) and 2007 Masters champion Zach Johnson (70).
Phil Mickelson scrambled his way to a 69, putting him at 2 under - and very much alive in his quest to move to No. 1 in the world for the first time.
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