Arduous task for the pack
He held off all challenges as well for his first major title at the 1998 US PGA championship, beating Steve Stricker and Steve Elkington down the stretch.
And only two weeks ago he took the Houston Open the same way, giving runner-up Darren Clarke no sniff of an opening with as polished a display as you could wish to see.
Now, following a brilliant second-round 65, Singh is clear in the Masters again.
But before he, Harrington and Garcia can get back down to things, there is some unfinished business for 38 of the 89-strong field - including Tiger Woods .
Because of torrential rain last night the second round could not be completed and they were teeing off again at 7.45am (12.45pm BST) to see if they could eat into Singh’s lead.
Retief Goosen had already started to do so, a birdie on the 11th just before the suspension taking the South African second and trimming Singh’s advantage to three, while defending champion Woods still has eight holes to play and at three under remains very much a threat.
Singh covered the back nine in 30, just one outside the tournament record.
Two weeks ago, he came to Augusta to have a look at the new holes. He shot 63. “It helps,” he admits. “You shoot a low number like that on a practice day and you say ‘Wow, that wasn’t that difficult.’
“But you’ve got to remember that that was a practice day. The greens were not as fast and it was much easier to play with nothing around you. But I was happy and it kind of eased my mind a little. You know exactly some of the clubs you can hit on these holes.”
Winning in Houston helped too. “It eased a lot of the pressure in my mind that, hey, I can win if I just go ahead and play.”
Tags: garcia, sergio
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May 12th, 2008 at 4:56 am
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May 12th, 2008 at 5:47 am
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May 12th, 2008 at 9:09 am
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May 12th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Thanks for posting this. The “dog whisperer” is setting human/animal relations back centuries, but most of the people who need to see the debunking don’t read the NYT. Hope it gets passed along.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:50 am
I once saw a squirrel chase a chipmunk because the chipmunk had an acorn. It was the cutest thing until the squirrel managed to catch up.Man, those things are vicious.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Were they secret squirrels? KGB secret squirrels?
May 12th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
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