US PGA, TW World Challenge, G-Mac attack
Graeme McDowell, G-Mac, attacked the Tiger Woods World Challenge with a super second round of -6 under par 66 at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks in California, at the Tiger Woods World Challenge which is presented by Northwestern Mutual. Graeme has managed to do a lot of things right this year without actually winning, but he has created one last chance to fix that right here after taking a three-shot lead going into the weekend. Just before he was escorted away for a drugs test, Graeme had time to say;
“A good day’s work. I would love to compete and play well this weekend, really to kind of put a little icing on what’s been a mediocre year, despite the fact that I feel like I’ve played some decent golf this year. I really don’t have a lot to show for myself, and this would be a nice way to finish. It’s just been a golf course that’s always fit my eye, great backdrops, nice undulations. It’s just a fun course to play. I just always have fun here. And you know, I think I’m always in a fairly relaxed mood here because I’m off the back of five weeks on the road, and I’m very glad to be back on U. S. soil, you know, which is kind of home soil for me nowadays.”
Graeme intends to take a couple of months off after this tournament, and when asked what he would do with his spare time, he replied;
Try and stay out of the bar as much as possible. December will be very much recharging and relaxing and moving into my new house in Orlando and spending some time with friends and family. And January will be detoxing and practicing and getting ready to do it all again.”
Tied for second place at -6 under par for the two rounds, are Bo Van Pelt, Jim Furyk and Keegan Bradley with Tiger another shot back at -5 under par.
Tournament Host Tiger Woods felt he had played some of his best gold;
“I had a decent warm-up session, but the work I did last night was some of the best I’ve hit the golf ball all year. I just had to come out here and trust it, and when I did, I got into a nice little run there. I just need to do that all 36 holes on the weekend.”
First round leader Nick Watney, who had a 67 on Thursday, fell apart late in his second round, leaving him five shots off the top of the leaderboard;
“Just a terrible way to finish, but we’re only halfway through, so we’ll see if we can make a charge at those guys in the morning.”
Propping everyone else up at the bottom of the table is Aussie Jason Day, perhaps Jason had his mind on the cricket, South Africa had dismissed Australia for just 163 runs at the WACA Ground.
