Johnson, Na, Kuchar in Lead; Tiger, Phil Make Cut

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Published: May 12, 2012

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Ponte Vedra Beach, FL–Carnage. Love the TPC Sawgrass or hate it, the water and sand and awkward lies and island green and alligator are all a part of the challenge of the biggest tournament on the PGA Tour. The course keeps professional golfers off balance, making them uncomfortable from start to finish. 

Discomfort is what the TPC at Sawgrass does best. Big names have trouble here. Rory McIlroy missed the cut, Steve Stricker is going home, Graeme McDowell is packing up, as is Hunter Mahan, one of the pre-tournament favorites.

Meanwhile, after enduring round after round of criticism, Tiger Woods clawed his way back from +2 on Thursday to get to -2 by the end of the day Friday with a four under 68. He had six birdies in his round, which pretty much proved armchair analysts wrong when they said that he had lost his game.  He had four birdies from the eighth to the 11th. He birdied three of the four par fives, letting only the second hole get away from him. 

“66 was my number today,” he said about his target score. “It would have put me four back, but I’m still with a good chance.”

He said his putting was good. 

“I had good speed on the greens, and finally what I was seeing and what I was feeling were matching up on speeds,” he said.  

He attacked the par fives.



“I had to play them better than I’m playing par fives, period. Good driver here, you’re hitting irons to just about every par five,” he explained.

The big difference for Woods was in the swing. “We did some work yesterday afternoon and tightened it up, felt better with what we’re working on, and I went with it today, and it worked out pretty well,” he concluded.

The only golfers who had it easy, easy being a relative term, were the typic...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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