NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. -- As Tiger Woods walked -- marched, actually -- off his final hole Friday afternoon following completion of second-round play at the AT&T National, gallery support accompanied every step.
There were the typical shouts of encouragement -- "Go, Tiger!" and "We love you, Tiger."
And then there was the consoling pep talk shouted from afar -- "Tomorrow will be your day, Tiger."
Woods can only hope.
The good form the beleaguered world No. 1 has been confidently predicting would soon arrive must still be circling the airport because it has yet to show up at Aronimick Golf Club.
Woods shot an even-par 70 Friday, put together by a series of stops and starts, momentum-sapping bogeys following almost every birdie.
On No. 11, a 412-yard par 4, he rolled in a 13 foot birdie after a 103-yard wedge to the green. A three-putt bogey from 40 feet followed at the 12th, but a 138-yard wedge to seven feet at No. 13 set up a birdie.
Woods could not keep it going.
He bogeyed No. 1, missing a nine-foot putt that would have saved par after hitting short of the green with his approach.
A wedge from 96 yards to five feet at No. 3 was followed at No. 4 by a 28-foot putt that dropped, producing back-to-back birdies but only to have the run halted with bogey at the par-3 fifth when he flew the green.
