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"They did everything right," Wilson said. "It was among the better golf I have come across collectively bewteen barefoot and shoes."

Watson was at 12-under 132 and may get to play again within the final group Saturday with Rose, who were required to settle for a 64.

"Maybe they've been cutting the hole a little bigger," Rose said.

Regardless of the steady wind, there have been a good amount of low scores around the Blue Monster. The average score was 69.9, close to three strokes easier as opposed to opening round. There have been 12 Taylormade Rocketballz Irons scores in the 60s on Thursday, and 31 of them Friday.

Tiger Woods played bogey-free for any 67 and lost ground. He moved up the leaderboard, but is seven shots behind entering the weekend, with 14 players ahead of him.

"This will be the highest score I possibly could have shot today, definitely," Woods said.

Rory McIlroy, in his first tournament because the marketplace No. 1, managed a 69 and fell 10 shots from the lead.

Perhaps most peculiar about Watson being atop the leaderboard at Doral is the fact that he doesn't really much like the course. Without many trees apart from the waving palms, he can't figure out where he's allowed to be punching the ball. But he kept hitting it long, had short irons to the greens and made his share of putts. That works well almost anyplace.

He am far left in the sixth fairway, that the tree was blocking his way to the green. Watson had only 135 yards for the hole, but rather than playing a iron wedge, he hit 9-iron and aimed it some 20 yards right in the green, slicing it into the left-to-right wind past the hole until the wind pushed it back on the descent. It landed 6 feet through the cup.

His caddie, Ted Scott, keeps notes within the yardage book of how Watson plays each hole in most round. Near TaylorMade R11S Driver the 9-iron from 135 yards, he invest parentheses, "Wow."

Watson was in the fairway on the par-5 eighth, though the best route to the green was around a palm tree close to the ropes where the photographers were camped out.

"I took it right the fringe of that tree. There exists a little tree there and it actually nicked that limb somewhat," Watson said. "I hit becoming hard because i could, simply a low, what everybody calls a stinger. Hit as hard while i could low and knew it was not likely to slice. So that all I used to be protecting was the draw and yes it went dead straight and came off perfect. And the rest is history."

He went from one shot behind to at least one shot in front of Rose, who had not even attempt to apologize about his 64. Rose, who contended yesterday inside wind on the Honda Classic, ran off four birdies in a very five-hole stretch across the turn, the exception beginning the 18th.

"I don't let it influence my idea, just how I play in the the game, but definitely you keep one eye on him just away from interest," Rose said. "He's a great guy to look at play golf. When he hits tee shots, there is a bit of disbelief and stuff like that, or he curves discount golf clubs one, starts one inch the trees and there is 'Ooohing' and 'Aahhhing' if this extends back in to the fairways.

"No one knows what to prepare for and I think it's fascinating to look at."

Despite the tees moved slightly forward and slightly less wind, the par-4 18th still played difficult. There were five birdies, in contrast to only two birdies within the opening round.

Adam Scott had one, holing a 20-foot putt to get a birdie-birdie finish that allowed him to recuperate from a double bogey about the eighth hole. He shot a 68 and was at 10-under 134, two shots out of the lead.

"Right where I want to be," Scott said. "The guys shot some unbelievably good scores available today, and so i knew on that back nine because i was type of falling a long way behind, I needed to step it, and i also was happy the putter really came through to me. Tomorrow, I'm just going to need to be really sharp, due to there being undoubtedly again you will find likely to be low scores on the market."

Peter Hanson, who reached the quarterfinals in the Match Play Championship, took another step toward attempting to secure a PGA Tour card. He had a 65 and was alone in fourth nowadays Golf Championship.