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