It was much better than that. His 10-under-par 62 — with a bogey on the last hole — went a long way, taking him to a two-shot lead over Brandt Snedeker going into the weekend.
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It was a magnificent round to match the weather along the Pacific bluffs.
But it wasn’t pretty for everyone.
Woods opened his round with four putts from 25 feet for a double bogey, and then a spurt of birdies around the turn to get some momentum, only to stall the rest of the way for a 71 that left him six shots behind.
At least he’s still playing.
Phil Mickelson was wild again off the tee and shot 73 on the North to miss the cut by two shots. He also missed the cut in the desert last week. The only other time Mickelson missed the cut in consecutive PGA Tour events to start the year was in 1988. He was 17, and those were the only two tour events he played.
Joining him with a weekend off were defending champion Justin Rose, Xander Schauffele, Rickie Fowler and US Open champion Gary Woodland.
Palmer was worried about the cut when he was 3 over through eight holes on the South in the first round. He rallied to shoot 72 and carried that momentum into Friday.
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“I knew today when I got out here, the low rounds were out here,” Palmer said.
“A good 5-, 6- under par round was to be had. I just took what I had and it turned into a 62. So driving the ball great and I was able to finally get some putts to go in. And the golf course with the par 5s reachable and No. 11 as well, it’s a golf course you can take if you’re hitting it well.”
Palmer, who lost in a playoff at Torrey Pines two years ago, was at 10-under 134.
Snedeker, who won the wind-blown edition of this event in 2016, renewed his love affair for poa annua greens and shot 67 on the South to get into the final group, along with J.B. Holmes, whose 69 left him three shots behind.
Woods has won eight times as a pro at Torrey (including the US Open), twice at Pebble Beach (including the US Open) and twice at La Costa in the Match Play (no US Opens there). He knows poa. And this time he says it wasn’t his friend, at least at the start.
His 25-foot birdie putt up the hill was wide left, leaving him 30 inches. Woods missed the hole on that one, and it ran down the slope about 5½ feet away. And then he missed the next one.
“It’s just poa,” he said.
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“I tried to ram it in the hole and it bounced, and hit obviously a terrible third putt, pulled it. The second putt, it’s just what happens on poa. I tried to take the break out and it just bounced.”
He bounced back with four birdies in a five-hole stretch through the 10th hole, but he didn’t make another birdie until the 18th for his 71 that put him in the group at 4-under 140.
Jordan Spieth (70), Jason Day (67) and Rory McIlroy (73) also were at 140.
Woods is going for his record 83rd victory on the PGA Tour. He was nine shots behind after 36 holes when he shot 62-65 to win in 1999, before the South was beefed up for the US Open.
“Somebody’s going to get hot over the weekend,” Snedeker said.
For one day on the North, that was Palmer.
LPGA — Madelene Sagstrom birdied seven of the first nine holes and shot a 10-under 62 on to take the second-round lead in the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Raton, Fla.
Sagstrom birdied the first two holes, parred the next two and made five straight birdies to make the turn in 7-under 29 at rain-softened Boca Rio Golf Club.
Sagstrom had a 10-under 134 total for a one-stroke lead over European Solheim Cup teammate Carlota Ciganda. Ciganda had a 66 in the first official event in Boca Raton since the 1989 Oldsmobile LPGA Classic.
European — After opening the year with two missed cuts, Eddie Pepperell surged back into form at the Dubai Desert Classic by shooting 5-under 67 to take the lead after two rounds over Bryson DeChambeau (67), Robert Karlsson (68) and Dean Burmester (68) by a stroke.
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