Live Coverage of the 2nd Round: Masters Leaderboard And Score Updates

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Published: April 9, 2010

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19:44 (ET) FINAL THOUGHTS -

Poulter and Westwood playing together must surely have its advantages, both are comfortable in each other’s presence and surely they both can’t fail?

Westwood and Poulter are both in their prime. So much of the test around Augusta is how you perform around the greens and both are primed in the putting department. Unfortunately for both, the highest and most grand of stages often blunts the intuition of many.

Both Westwood’s and Poulter’s careers bear out that fact – Westwood  delivered a disturbing harbinger in the final three holes today. Nevertheless, they would both be at pains to point out that you have to be in contention a few times to learn how to win.

But that has hollow resonance. Majors have served to conspire against them in the not so distant past. The Terror of failure is sometimes over-whelming and it is always tempting to revert to type when the pressure is greatest and both have succumbed before.

Anthony Kim has the precocity of youth, which is somewhat immune to tension and unaware of the magnitude of the challenge. It will serve him well but perhaps this is a hurdle too far.

Of the leading contenders only Woods and Mickelson possess the necessary prescience to cope with the final day of a major event.

Sceptics of Wood’s challenge - most just serving to exaggerate the achievement in the event Tiger does pull off the inconcievable(cough, cough Mike Wilbon) - must surely now have been put too bed.

Woods has dispatched the critics and that ''nadir'' in his life with familiar contempt.

He possesses all the attributes to produce perhaps his most astonishing achiement. His nerve is as impressive as it is chilling. He certainly does not fear Augusta National. Au contraire! It has almost served as his personal playground the last decade, the place echoes with his deeds.

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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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