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| July 31, 2005 | Sunday | Jumadi-us-Sani 23, 1426 |
Woods fires 61, equals career best score
GRAND BLANC (Michigan), July 30: Tiger Woods equalled his career best score by shooting an 11-under 61 in the second round of the US$4.6m PGA Buick Open on Friday. Woods also tied the tournament record, firing consecutive eagles for the first time in a PGA Tour tournament to sit one shot adrift of leader Vijay Singh.
Fijian-Indian Singh is atop the leaderboard after shooting a six-under 66 on Friday to get to 13-under 131. On Friday, Woods went out in 31 after five birdies in his first nine holes, including three in a row starting on the par-four fifth. He went eagle-eagle-birdie-birdie in one stretch.
After a 356-yard drive, Woods stuck a seven-iron from 191 yards to within 10 feet on the par-five 13th and converted for eagle. He was just getting warmed up. Tiger then drove the green at the 324-yard par-four 14th and dropped a curling putt from about eight feet for back-to-back eagles.
He drove into the rough on 15 but that didn’t stop him from firing his approach to inside 10 feet, leading to another birdie to get to 11-under.
Leading second round scores:
131 - Vijay Singh 65-66
132 - Tiger Woods 71-61
133 - Craig Barlow 66-67
134 - Jason Bohn 65-69, Fred Funk 68-66, Dudley Hart 68-66, Zach Johnson 68-66, Frank Lickliter 67-67, Steve Stricker 68-66
135 - Robert Allenby 70-65, Jeff Brehaut 68-67, Chris DiMarco 70-65, Steve Lowery 69-66, Nick Watney 64-71
136 - Glen Hnatiuk 67-69, Neal Lancaster 66-70, Sean O’Hair 70-66, Mario Tiziani 70-66
137 - Daniel Chopra 71-66, Steve Elkington 69-68, Geoff Ogilvy 66-71
LANE SHARES LEAD
KUNGSANGEN (Sweden): Barry Lane fired a six-under-par 65 to move into a share of the lead with fellow Briton Bradley Dredge after the Scandinavian Masters third round on Saturday.
Dredge, tournament leader after 36 holes, returned a 66 as the duo finished two shots clear of the field at 18-under 195 following an earlier-than-usual start to round three.
Leading scores:
195 Bradley Dredge 66 63 66; Barry Lane 64 66 65
197 Mark Hensby 65 68 64; Henrik Stenson 67 66 64
198 Damien McGrane 68 66 64
200 Marc Cayeux 63 69 68; Richard Finch 71 64 65; Pierre Fulke 67 63 70; Henrik Nystroem 66 65 69; Jean-Francois Remesy 66 65 69; Adam Scott 70 65 65
201 Peter O’Malley 66 68 67
202 Henrik Bjornstad 67 65 70; Paul Broadhurst 67 68 67; Gary Emerson 69 67 66; Andrew McLardy 66 71 65; Jarrod Moseley 67 68 67; Mark Roe 70 65 67.—Agencies
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