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Friday's weather was ideal, and the scoring was low. Leading the way is Morgan Hoffman who has followed up his opening -6 66, with a 65 to get in the clubhouse at -13, 3 shots clear of Henrik Stenson 66, defending champion Matt Every 66, and Harris English 66 all at -10. Ben Martin is at -9 after 68 67.
Kiwi sensation Danny Lee is T6 after he went low for the day -8 64 and he's tied with Rory's -6 66, 5 behind the leader. McIlroy had difficulty getting going early, making two birdies over his first nine holes (the back nine) and needing to save par three times, all from bunkers. After making the turn, McIlroy got on a roll starting at the second hole, making five straight birdies, the longest in a row in his PGA Tour career.
Playing on the best of the greens early in the morning Hoffmann ran off six birdies on the front nine, including four in a row, and he finished at -13 131. That's one short of the 36-hole record last matched a year ago by Adam Scott who led by 7 shots going into that weekend.
Every has only one top-10 since he won at Bay Hill a year ago, and he has not finished in the top 25 in his last 17 tournaments. But he is confident he is headed in the right direction with his swing, and it has showed for two days. He ran off four straight birdies at the end of his round for a 66 and was at 134.
Stenson like many torched Bay Hill's back nine with 6 birdies for 30, but could only manage even par on the front nine for 36, 66 total and Harris English didn't have a bogey on his card for his 66.
Nick Taylor opened with 76 but shot a sensational -7 65 and is now T40 -3. David Hearn hung on to make the cut +1 73 T55 -2, while Graham DeLaet improved with a -2 70 but at E still missed the lowest cut ever at Bay Hill -2.
More fine weather is expected today, but in his post round press conference Mr Palmer was talking about keeping water off the fairways and greens to firm them up and I'm sure the PGA Tour will be tucking the pins to try and keep scoring from getting out of hand.
Bryan Angus (notes from BBC Reuters AP..)
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