Further to my earlier post this morning round 2 is now complete at the Dubai Desert Classic and Rory McIlroy 65,68 -11 continues to lead this star studded field by a shot over Sergio Garcia 67 67 -10 and Thomas Aiken 67 67 -10.
McIlroy who has been talking this week about his new patient attitude towards each round had this to say after his round..
"I felt a little more at ease with my swing yesterday, but I stayed patient and picked up the birdies when I could."Maybe this time last year I would not have been able to grind out a 68 after the start I had. Rounds like this prove I am doing the right thing.“I really wanted that, to get to 11 under, and so it's nice to come into the weekend with a little bit of a lead.”
Garcia needed to birdie 18 to join him atop the leader board but could only make par 5, but he looks much happier than he did 6 months ago when he was still shattered over being dumped by Greg Norman's daughter Morgan Leigh. Here's what he said about her early in 2010..
“Myself, when I am not feeling happy on a golf course and not up for it, that is the way it is. You can’t do anything about it. I can’t do well. Obviously the break-up with Morgan didn’t help. You get over some things. Others take a little longer."
Now he seems over it and he is back striking the ball beautifully.
Tiger is now 71 66 -7 T5 with 4 others
Lee Westwood 69 70 -5 is T11 and is playing solidly if not spectacularly yet.
Martin Kaymer 69 71 -4 is T20 with 7 others.
Leader board
7 - 1 MCILROY, Rory -11 18 -4 65 68 - - 133
T2 AIKEN, Thomas* -10 18 -5 67 67 - - 134
T2 GARCIA, Sergio -10 18 -5 67 67 - - 134
4 WEBSTER, Steve* -8 18 -4 68 68 - - 136
T5 WOODS, Tiger* -7 18 -6 71 66 - - 137
T5 HANSEN, Anders* -7 18 -4 69 68 - - 137
T5 HOEY, Michael -7 18 -5 70 67 - - 137
T5 GONNET, Jean-Baptiste* -7 18 -3 68 69 - - 137
T5 RUMFORD, Brett* -7 18 -4 69 68 - - 137
10 HANSON, Peter* -6 18 -3 69 69 - - 138
So now the big 3 are split up and since you were wondering here are the pairings for tomorrow
1 07:15 CAÑIZARES Alejandro
1 07:24 KARLBERG Rikard DYSON Simon
1 07:33 KINGSTON James BAIN Ross
1 07:42 HAASTRUP Mark F VELASCO Alvaro
1 07:51 KHAN Simon COLSAERTS Nicolas
1 08:00 ROCK Robert FINCH Richard
1 08:09 DRYSDALE David LAWRIE Peter
1 08:18 STRANGE Scott KRUGER Jbe
1 08:27 LEWIS (AM) Tom GOYA Tano
1 08:41 DAVIES Rhys HAVRET Grégory
1 08:50 LAFEBER Maarten WOOD Chris
1 08:59 BOURDY Grégory DERKSEN Robert-Jan
1 09:08 MCGRANE Damien LYNN David
1 09:17 LEE Danny HORSEY David
1 09:26 GONZALEZ Ricardo OTTO Hennie
1 09:35 FOSTER Mark CLARKE Darren
1 09:44 JACQUELIN Raphaël JIMÉNEZ Miguel Angel
1 09:53 HAMILTON Todd BENSON Seve
1 10:07 CURTIS Ben DREDGE Bradley
1 10:16 OLAZÁBAL José Maria FISHER Ross
1 10:25 DE VRIES Floris DONALDSON Jamie
1 10:34 WARING Paul SIEM Marcel
1 10:43 JONZON Michael QUIROS Alvaro
1 10:52 MARTIN Pablo SINGH Jeev Milkha
1 11:01 ANDERSSON HED Fredrik KAYMER Martin
1 11:10 STERNE Richard RAMSAY Richie
1 11:19 EDFORS Johan LEVET Thomas
1 11:33 GALLACHER Stephen WILLETT Danny
1 11:42 WARREN Marc CABRERA-BELLO Rafael
1 11:51 DUBUISSON Victor WESTWOOD Lee
1 12:00 WALL Anthony BROWN Mark
1 12:09 HANSON Peter RUMFORD Brett
1 12:18 HOEY Michael GONNET Jean-Baptiste
1 12:27 WOODS Tiger HANSEN Anders ( thats 3.37am est)
1 12:36 GARCIA Sergio WEBSTER Steve
1 12:45 AIKEN Thomas MCILROY Rory
Rory lead from wire to wire when he won here in 2009 and he starts the weekend leading Tiger by 4, Westwood by 6 and Kaymer by 7.
Bryan Angus
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