World Number one Tiger Woods has ominously moved into a share of the lead after two rounds at the World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions in Shanghai.
The American has never won the event, which has been granted world golf status after just five years on tour, but carded a second round of 67 to tie Nick Watney at the top of the leader board on 10 under par.
"I got off to a good start and birdied the very first hole but, after that, I didn't really make any putts," Woods said.
"I certainly had some looks at them and didn't really capitalise on anything but made a putt at nine and from then on I hit a lot of good putts and played the last 10 holes in five under.
"It was a little bit frustrating not holing the putts, but the guys weren't really running off and hiding and I knew that if I could play the back nine in three under that would be a pretty good number and I was able to do one better than that."
The field includes some of the top players in the world with former Champion Phil Mickleson one off the pace and last week's beaten World Match Play finalist Anthony Kim at 8 under.
Holywood golfer Rory McIlroy improved on his poor first round with four birdies in his last six holes to leave him at 4 under par, one shot better than three time major winner Padraig Harrington.
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