Tiger Woods Scandals - has himself right where he wants to be, in contention at the Masters after two rounds. Woods followed up his first round 68 with a second round 70 in more difficult conditions at Augusta National Golf Club. At 6-under, he's in a five-way tie for third place, two shots behind a pair of Brits, Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter, both at 8-under.
Had Phil Mickelson not lipped out a long putt on the 18th green, he and Tiger Woods would have been paired together in tomorrow's third round. As it is, they are tied.
"It feels good. It feels really good," Woods said about being in the mix in his first tournament after a five-month layoff. "I usually put myself in contention most of the time most years here, and this year I'm right there. We've got 36 more holes and I'm sure the golf course, they are not going to make it easy for us. They made it easy on the first day for us and today was certainly much more difficult."
On a day where the wind switched directions, making the par five holes more difficult, Woods continued his assault on them, with birdies on three of the four, putting him 7-under for the week on them. Thursday, he eagled two of the par fives.
On the 13th hole Friday, he laid up. On the 15th, he made a 15-foot birdie putt after getting a bit fortunate on a difficult chip shot.
"I had 218 front and obviously I could get there with a 5‑wood but the wind was all over the place, and it makes no sense to go for it," he said, explaining his strategy on 13. "So I laid up to the right, make sure I had an angle down to the flag, and I had 61 to the hole and was too conservative on the pitch. If I lined it anywhere near the flags it would probably hop over the back, so consequently I kind of eased up on it too much and ended up short."
Still, he made the 20-footer.
"Then 15 was an interesting little pitch I had there," he said. "I had to line it over the sprinkler (head) but short of the green."
The ball landed an inch past the sprinkler head and Woods was lucky it got onto the green. He made the 15-footer.
Woods has makeable birdie putts on 16 and 17 after he threaded a 9-iron shot through the trees to the green, but missed them both.
"I felt more comfortable because I was hitting the ball better and I was putting better, even though I didn't shoot as low a score," he said. "I think that's a factor of the conditions. But I feel like I had more control of the golf ball today from tee-to-green and I hit putts right on my lines. That's something I wasn't doing yesterday."
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