* Woods cards a 73 to miss cut by one shot
* Watney takes control with an eight-under-par 64
* Mickelson and Westwood narrowly advance
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May 4 (Reuters) – A frustrated Tiger Woods missed a cut for
only the eighth time in a PGA Tour event while Nick Watney
stormed into a one-shot lead in Friday’s second round of the
Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Former world number one Woods battled to a one-over-par 73
at Quail Hollow Club, struggling with his putter, failing to
birdie any of the four par-five holes and finishing one stroke
outside the cutline.
The greatest player of his generation and arguably the best
of all time, Woods has now missed four cuts in his last 36 PGA
Tour appearances after missed the same number in his previous
231 starts.
“The entire week I didn’t play the par-fives well,” Woods
told reporters after parring his last nine holes for an even-par
total of 144, a distant 12 strokes behind fellow American Watney
who fired an eight-under 64.
“You just can’t do that, especially when all of them are
reachable with irons. I didn’t take care of the par-fives,
missed a couple of other little short ones for birdie and
consequently got no momentum during the round.”
Asked to explain why he had struggled, Woods replied: “It
all has to do with my setup. If I get over the golf ball and I
feel uncomfortable, I hit it great.
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