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MIAMI (Ticker) -- Tiger Woods is one shot off the lead entering Saturday's third round at the $8 million CA Championship. Woods fired a 6-under-par 66 during Friday's second round at Doral Golf Resort, holing two eagles and three birdies against one bogey. The world No. 1 is one shot behind leader Geoff Ogilvy, who carded a 67 to improve his overall score to 12-under 132.
Aiming for his eighth straight tournament victory, Woods finished in style with birdies at his final two holes, sinking a sharply breaking 20-footer at the ninth to punctuate another excellent day. Woods has not lost in more than six months, winning five times on the PGA Tour, the European Tour's Dubai Desert Classic and his own unofficial Target Challenge.
This World Golf Championships event has become Woods' own personal property, as he has won it six times in eight attempts on six different courses. He started Friday two strokes behind overnight leaders Ogilvy and Miguel Jimenez, but it did not take long for that to change as he eagled his third hole, the par-5 12th, with a 40-foot bunker shot. Woods added a birdie at the par-4 16th, before picking up another eagle at the par-5 first, where he busted a 330-yard drive before hitting a well-judged 7-iron that nestled up little more than six feet from the pin. He was not perfect, though. Trying to avoid a water hazard on the par-4 third, Woods pulled his drive behind a tree and had little choice but to lay up with his second shot. But that was the first and only blemish on his card.
Ogilvy, meanwhile, played in relative peace and quiet, far from the maddening crowds tracking Woods. Seeking his first PGA Tour victory since the 2006 U.S. Open champion, Ogilvy gathered five birdies with no bogies on the day. Adam Scott's 68 brought him to 9-under for the tournament, placing him three shots back in third.
