Tiger tames Monster

Seizes a two-stroke lead after 36 holes at the Miami golf

MIAMI: World number one Tiger Woods, making two title defenses this week, fired a bogey-free six-under par 66 here to grab a two-stroke lead after 36 holes of the World Golf Championship CA Championship. Woods stood on seven-under par 137 after the second round of the eight million-dollar event at Doral’s Blue Course, two strokes ahead of Australian Rod Pampling over a layout better known as the Blue Monster.

Woods has won the US PGA event at Doral the past two years and captured the World Golf American Express event last year in England, the event that moved to Doral this year in a major revamping of the US tournament schedule.

Woods will seek his third major in a row and the 13th of his career in two weeks at the Masters, the first major championship of the year, at famed Augusta National Golf Club.

Woods said that while he wasn’t prone to the kind of tantrums once indulged in by tennis bad boy John McEnroe, he thought a little emotion could be beneficial on the course.