Harrington makes move but Poulter has a painful day

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By Mark Garrod in Miami
Playing partners Ian Poulter and Padraig Harrington went in totally opposite directions in the second round of the WGC-CA Championship in Miami yesterday.
Harrington moved into contention on six-under-par following a four-under 68, four behind clubhouse leader Ernie Els in joint fifth place. But, three weeks on from his World Match Play victory, Poulter crashed to near last place with a 78 for 150 and then revealed that he had nearly quit the event because of a neck problem.
The pair finished their day's work just before play was held up briefly because of an approaching thunderstorm, officials having made a very wise move in bringing forward tee times by nearly three and a half hours.
South African Els, 40, added a 66 to his opening 68 to lead on 10-under-par 134 by one shot from Australian Robert Allenby who had a hole in one - the 14th of his career - at the 233yd 13th. Allenby finished with a 67 for 135.
Harrington's only 2009 success came in the non-Tour Irish PGA Championship, but he was making no promises about putting that right this weekend.
The Dubliner has dropped to 13th in the world with nothing better than a 16th place finish in four starts so far this season. With that in mind he said:
"I have a tradition that I don't normally win out of the blue. It's very rare. I normally warm up by getting into contention a few times. I'm happy with my scoring but I made a few mental errors out there and missed a few putts. Obviously, though, I hit enough good shots and I seemed to have a lot of reasonable chances for birdies."
His only dropped shot came after he hooked his drive into the lake on the treacherous 18th, his ninth of the day.
Poulter did the same, but for him it was one of seven bogeys.
"I nearly didn't play yesterday," said the world No 5. "My usual physio guy is in Australia so I had to get some treatment when I got to the course and as I went to practice I still wasn't sure I'd be playing."
SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Blue Monster at Doral Golf Resort, Miami, Florida
Par 144 (2-71)
134 Ernie Els (South Africa) 68 66.
135 Robert Allenby (Australia) 68 67
136 Bill Haas 71 67.
137 Charl Schwartzel (South Africa) 67 70.
138 Soren Hansen (Denmark) 69 69, Padraig Harrington (Ireland) 70 68.
139 Yuta Ikeda (Japan) 71 68, J B Holmes 69 70, Vijay Singh (Fiji) 68 71, Mike Weir (Canada) 73 66, Tim Clark (South Africa) 70 69, John Senden (Australia) 69 70.
140 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spain) 72 68, Peter Hanson 74 66, Phil Mickelson 71 69, Camilo Villegas (Colombia) 72 68, Francesco Molinari (Italy) 69 71.
141 Alvaro Quiros (Spain) 72 69, Paul Casey (England) 69 72, Dustin Johnson 69 72, Wen-Chong Liang 72 69.
142 Alistair Presnell 72 70, Hunter Mahan 72 70, Steve Stricker 73 69, Matt Kuchar 71 71, Jason Dufner 73 69, Sean O'Hair 71 71, Lee Westwood (England) 74 68, Martin Kaymer (Germany) 70 72, Jerry Kelly 70 72, Graeme McDowell (N Ireland) 74 68.
143 Geoff Ogilvy (Australia) 72 71, Brian Gay 74 69, Adam Scott (Australia) 74 69, Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 71 72.
144 David Toms 72 72, Lucas Glover 72 72, Anthony Kim 71 73.
145 Heath Slocum 74 71, Luke Donald (England) 70 75, Thongchai Jaidee (Thailand) 73 72, Simon Dyson (England) 72 73, Y E Yang 73 72, Nick Watney 73 72, Ross Fisher (England) 73 73, Angel Cabrera (Argentina) 74 71.
146 Steve Marino 75 71, Zach Johnson 76 70, Sergio Garcia (Spain) 74 72, Anders Hansen 76 70, Edoardo Molinari (Italy) 72 74, Jim Furyk 70 76.
147 Ryan Palmer 79 68, Ben Crane 74 73, Kenny Perry 73 74, Ross McGowan (England) 76 71, Retief Goosen (South Africa) 76 71.
148 Kevin Na 78 70, Robert Karlsson (Sweden) 78 70, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spain) 73 75, Scott Verplank 76 72.
149 Michael Sim (Australia) 75 74, Stewart Cink 75 74, Rory McIlroy (N Ireland) 76 73.
150 Ian Poulter (England) 72 78.
151 Marc Leishman (Australia) 78 73.
152 Oliver Wilson (Engloand) 78 74, Soren Kjeldzen 74 78.