Golf: Golf fans can't see Woods for the knees

Tiger Woods recorded his worst score for nearly two years in the second round of the PGA Memorial Tournament in Ohio.

Woods carded a two-over-par 74 and made five bogeys and three birdies in his worst round since the second round of the 2007 British Open at Carnoustie. Despite finding 12 of 14 fairways in regulation, Woods reached only 11 of 18 greens the same way.

"I hit it good off the tees. I drove it great," Woods said. "Hit my ball on the short side. Can't do that out here. Got to miss it on the correct side. Missed a few short ones as well.

"I just hit some poor shots. But I can hit the ball better than I did. Just need to hit my irons a little better and obviously make the short ones."

Woods took off more than eight months for PGA play after surgery following his dramatic US Open play-off title last June and says the injury is just now coming into solid form.

"I'm swinging better. I finally feel my body is coming around," Woods said. "I just have to keep the strength up. The swelling is pretty much gone. It's just better keeping the strength up and explosiveness in it."

Woods, who was able to stop icing the knee after round following the Masters last April, is still searching for consistency as he displays moments of the form that has brought him 14 major titles.

"I've been feeling great," he said. "It's just a matter of being a little more consistent. My rounds have been sporadic. I'll get it going for four or five holes, have one or two bad holes, get it going again. You can't do that out here and win golf tournaments. You have to keep it going consistently. I just haven't done that yet."

Meanwhile, Jim Furyk made one last birdie to put him one more stroke under par, which he found more gratifying than being in a share of the lead with Jonathan Byrd.

New Zealand's Danny Lee missed the cut by four shots, recording a total of 152, with rounds of 79 and 73.

Furyk had two bogeys from the bunker on the back nine, but finished with an 8-iron that stopped on the top shelf about 8 feet away for birdie on the 18th that gave him a 2-under 70. He hasn't been atop the leaderboard this deep into a tournament since winning the Canadian Open in 2007, his last PGA Tour victory.

Asked how he felt about being tied for the lead, Furyk replied, "I'd rather be as many under par as possible. I just want to go out there and play one more solid round and hopefully sit in the same spot, and put myself in good position for tomorrow's final round."

The 2002 Memorial winner said he would be jockeying for position and trying to play another good round.

He'll have plenty of company. Mike Weir (69) and Mark Wilson (70) were a stroke behind Furyk and Byrd at 6-under 138. The top 16 players were separated by a mere three shots.

Woods was at 1-under 143. That was six shots from the lead with 36 holes to play, although he had 23 players ahead of him, including Ernie Els (70), Stewart Cink (72) and Davis Love III (68) at 4-under 140.

Also at 140 was Luke Donald, who opened with a 64 and a three-shot lead that vanished with a 40 on his opening nine. He wound up a dozen shots worse with a 76, although he was very much in contention.

The question was whether the leading score would continue to dwindle as the greens got even faster. Woods said he ran into the course superintendent before teeing off in the morning and was told the greens were running at 14 on the Stimpmeter.

"If you're putting uphill for birdies or pars, it doesn't look that hard," Love said. "If you're putting down hill all day, which you can easily do, or you're hitting it over the greens and chipping back, it's tough."