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| Tiger Woods |
"He won being 6 back w 18 to play last time there, beating O'Hair," Haney tweeted Saturday before Woods, six back of Martin Laird with 36 to play at Bay Hill, teed off. Despite slightly miscalculating how much ground Woods had to make up for a comeback, Haney believed Tiger would lift the trophy Sunday night.
In fact, we pointed out that Woods was five back of Sean O’Hair entering the final round of Arnie’s 2009 get-together, but no matter.
"I stand corrected but 6 is no problem," Haney tweeted back, "I expect Tiger to win."
Woods certainly showed flashes of his former self on his way to a second-round 4-under 68 that included a finishing 20-foot birdie putt on the ninth. Saturday brought a fist pump from the world’s No. 5 after he canned a 12-foot eagle putt on the sixth. His first eagle on tour since the final round of last year’s Masters took Woods to 4-under -- five back of leader Laird, who was at 9-under after four holes.
Despite Haney’s confidence in the chances of his former pupil, however, Laird, a slew of other golfers high up on the leaderboard, and Woods himself were making Tiger’s eagle irrelevant. In addition to Laird’s three straight birdies on four, five, and six that put the leader at 12-under through seven, Woods posted three nasty bogeys to go with the eagle and a birdie on the front nine.
Tiger had work to do on the incoming nine just to get back into the mix (as Ron Sirak noted Friday, he’ll always be in the conversation), let alone make his ex-mentor look good.
Sources: http://www.waggleroom.com
