Tiger Woods is beginning to regain confidence in his game after long months, and that translates into results. The best one, leading a tournament again, and that is what is happening at the Australian Open, where the Californian former world number one has taken the lead after 36 holes.
The Extraterrestrial, now more human than in the past, controlling the long shots and very confident with the putter, climbed to the top of the leaderboard thanks to a round of 67 strokes, 5 under par, which gave him a one-stroke lead over his fiercest pursuers.
If he can hold on to the lead, Tiger will go into the final round of the tournament as the leader, something that hasn’t happened since last year’s Chevron World Challenge. His last victory dates back to November 2009 in Australia, and it has been three years since he won a major.
“I really played well,” Woods said. “Even though I shot 5 under par, I think it could have been 8 or 9,” he added.
Tiger accumulated after the second day a total of 9 under par, 135 strokes, one less than a very well known name in those Australian lands, and by Woods himself: Peter O’Malley. This player is a member of the tournament’s host club, The Lakes, and birdied his last two holes to card a 66. O’Malley is in the memory of many North American fans as the player who beat Woods in the first round of the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship at La Costa in 2002.
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