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MIAMI, March 4: While the Doral Championship is shaping up as another head-to-head between holder Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, neither player is prepared to look that far ahead.
Woods and Mickelson ended on Friday’s second round in a four-way tie for the lead at Doral’s Blue Monster Course, where just four strokes separate the top 13.
Woods, who overhauled Mickelson in a gripping final-round duel for last year’s title, accepts there is now much greater strength in depth on the tour.
Mickelson, who birdied two of the last three holes for a second-round 66, agrees this week’s event is wide open.
Leading second round scores:
131 - Phil Mickelson 65-66, Scott Verplank 66-65, Camilo Villegas 65-66, Tiger Woods 64-67
132 - Rich Beem 65-67, David Toms 66-66, Mark Wilson 65-67
133 - Daniel Chopra 66-67
134 - Chad Campbell 68-66, Lucas Glover 67-67, Zach Johnson 69-65, Troy Matteson 70-64, Dean Wilson 66-68
135 - Stephen Ames 69-66, Briny Baird 68-67, Shane Bertsch 68-67, Tim Clark (RSA) 68-67, Ryan Palmer 65-70, Charles Warren 69-66
136 - Carlos Franco 69-67
137 - Arjun Atwal 68-69, Ernie Els 72-65, Fredrik Jacobson 70-67
138 - Angel Cabrera 70-68, Sergio Garcia 69-69, Padraig Harrington 68-70, Greg Owen 70-68, Jesper Parnevik 72-66, John Senden 70-68
139 - Retief Goosen 70-69, David Howell 69-70, Trevor Immelman 68-71
140 - Ryuji Imada 72-68, Vijay Singh 67-73
JAKARTA: Australia’s Andrew Buckle and Britain’s Simon Dyson shared the lead after the third round of the Indonesia Open on Saturday, the duo moving three shots clear of the field on 15-under-par 201.
Taiwan’s Wang Ter-chang stood alone in third place on 12 under after the 43-year-old fired a two-under-par 70 around the lush Emeralda Golf Club in the $1m co-sanctioned European and Asian Tour event.
Leading third round scores
201 - Andrew Buckle 67-69-65, Simon Dyson 66-68-67
204 - Wang Ter-Chang 66-68-70
206 - Shiv Kapur 72-68-66, David Higgins 66-71-69, Stephen Dodd 69-63-74, Thongchai Jaidee 66-68-72
207 - Lu Wei-Chih 71-70-66, Matthew Millar 71-66-70, Peter Gustafsson 72-65-70, Rahil Gangjee 69-67-71
208 - Terry Pilkadaris 72-68-68, Steven Jeppesen 67-72-69, Unho Park 68-71-69, Scott Strange 71-67-70, Anders Hansen 69-69-70, Anthony Kang 67-70-71.—Agencies
