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It is clear, though, that entering the weekend of the 141st Open Championship everyone should consider him a prime contender to win his 15th major tournament. A second 3-under 67, again forged with a more conservative bent than that of Britain's Tory Party, elevated Woods into third place, four strokes behind midway leader turtle bay cruises bermuda Brandt Snedeker.
"I'm very pleased at where I'm at," Woods said moments after holing a bunker shot at 18 for his fourth birdie of the day. "I'm right there in the mix. With the weather that's forecast on Sunday (30 mph wind) and tomorrow, it's going to be a good weekend."
Teeing off with long iron after long iron, Woods is handling turtle bay cruises bermuda Royal Lytham in the safety-first manner in which he won the 2006 Open a bit down the coast road at Hoylake. A day after hitting but two drivers, he used a driver on No. 2 and a 3-wood turtle bay cruises bermuda at the third. Other than that, he pulled all irons, as short as the 6-iron he employed at the short par-4 16th.
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It is safe to say no one else has played so carefully. The way it looked Friday, Woods could get by using a version of a junior set here. It appeared he could use about half his bag–maybe 3-wood, 2-iron, 4-iron, 5-iron, two wedges and a putter.
Punch lines aside, the method has suited him well. He controlled his ball beautifully Friday, hitting 14 greens in regulation. His lone bogey came after he missed his only fairway, turtle bay cruises bermuda at the 598-yard 11th, where he went from the right to left rough and didn't reach the green until his fifth shot.
Yes, he has. But he also excelled with the iron-after-iron conservative approach through 36 holes at last month's U.S. Open. He was the midway co-leader then. But then he started missing fairways with those long irons, faced long approach shots from heavy rough, missed greens, made bogeys and fell out of contention.
"It's just patience on a golf course like this," Woods said. "I'm hitting the ball in the fairway, and that's the thing around turtle bay cruises bermuda this golf course. You just have to do that. You can't control it out of the rough here. And obviously the pot bunkers, you can't do anything but come out sideways."
Hitting 4-irons and the like into greens also means good birdie turtle bay cruises bermuda chances are limited. But Woods took advantage of his, making putts of 6 feet at the fourth, 18 feet at the sixth and 25 at No. 16. The holeout from the pot bunker to the right of the 18th green was an unexpected bonus that prompted two air punches and a high-five with caddie Joe LaCava.
"It wasn't as hard as it may have looked," Woods said. "Because I was on the upslope, I could take out the (bunker face) steepness. ... I played turtle bay cruises bermuda it about a cup outside the left and it landed on my spot and rolled to the right."
When the ball disappeared into the hole after 7 p.m., the remaining spectators in the oversized bleachers generated a roar that could be heard holes away. It didn't take much to realize turtle bay cruises bermuda another Woods Alert had been sounded.