Cadillac World Championship

  HOLMES KEEPS LEAD AS FRUSTRATED RORY TOSSES

 A CLUB INTO A LAKE AT THE BLUE MONSTER

FROM CBS SPORTS.COM
DORAL, Florida-- J B Holmes kept his lead. Rory McIlroy lost his cool.
In his second round Holmes was 11 shots worse than his tournament record-tieing first-round  62, finishing with a tee shot in the water and a double bogey on the 18th hole Friday for a 1-over 73. 
That still was enough to take a two-shot lead over Ryan Moore (71) into the weekend at the Cadillac Championship.
McIlroy made the wrong kind of splash at Trump National Doral -- first with a shot, then with his club.
On a wild afternoon of eagles, birdies and big numbers at every turn, McIlroy produced the biggest highlight when he pulled his 3-iron shot into the water on the par-5 eighth, and then heaved the club some 50 yards into the middle of the lake.
"Felt good at the time," McIlroy said. "I just let frustration get the better of me."
McIlroy managed to salvage a bogey, made three birdies on the back nine and shot a 2-under 70 to stay in the hunt at this World Golf Championship. He is still eight shots behind Holmes, though the Blue Monster is a tough course for anyone to protect a lead.
And it didn't take much to get into trouble.
Holmes began the second round with a 360-yard drive and a 6-iron onto the green at the par 5. It rolled into the water, and he made his first bogey of the tournament. His approach on the third hole came up just enough short to go into the water for another bogey. 
And his tee shot on the 18th was pulled just enough for another splash. He at least countered with five birdies to stay in the lead.
Holmes is at 9-under 135.
He was more irritated by the bogey on No. 1 than the double bogey at the end of his round, and what set him off was a reminder than he thought the old Blue Monster was too easy for a World Golf Championship.
"There's a difference between easy and hitting two perfect shots and the ball going in the water," Holmes said. "That's a joke. I hit a 6-iron straight up in the air, it landed 3 feet off the left of the green and 5 feet on it and it goes in the water on the right side of the green. That's not hard. That's stupid. That's unfair."
Still, he was in a good mood heading into the weekend.
Adam Scott made six birdies in his round of 68 and is three shots behind at 6-under 138. Masters champion Bubba Watson made a pair of eagles, including a bunker shot he holed at the 10th, for a 69. 
Henrik Stenson bounced back from a double bogey in the water at the par-3 fourth hole with three straight birdies in his round of 71. They are at 4-under 140, five shots behind.
Moore managed to avoid trouble for most of the day, dropping his lone shot at the 14th from a bunker. He has made par or better on 34 of the 36 holes he has played. He used the word "fluke" to describe his 66 (with a double bogey on the last hole) and the 62 by Holmes.
"I don't know if it would have real really mattered what golf course either of us were on," he said. "I was hitting good shots and hitting them next to the hole and making every putt I looked at. 
"So I think that was more the players than the golf course. Today, I think this was how this golf course plays. It's just a really difficult golf course."
Scott's 68 was the low round of the day, while the average score again was about 73.4 For the second straight day, only seven players shot in the 60s. Scott thought his first-round 70 was good, too, except that he was eight shots behind.
Like everyone else, he couldn't figure out how Holmes shot 62, and there was some relief to see Holmes play a more "ordinary" round.
"He might have had the round of his life -- and certainly round of the year already -- yesterday," Scott said. "I don't know if there's going to be better than that anyway. ... And for me, sitting eight shots back after a pretty good round myself yesterday, I just have to hope he's not going to do it again, and I can slowly pick away at those eight shots."
Holmes didn't feel as though he played much worse than his 62 in the opening round, except for not making as many putts.
Ultimately, he was pleased with his position because he still had a better score than anyone else. The Blue Monster has a mean streak, though, and now it's a matter of Holmes and those chasing him to hang on.
"If you had told me at the beginning of the week I would have a two-shot lead after two rounds, I would have said, `All right, sounds good.' Like I said, I've been playing great," Holmes said. "Played great today." 
Stephen Gallacher improved from a first-day 84 to a second-round 72 for 156.

ALL THE SECOND-ROUND SCORES

1	J.B. Holmes	62	73						135
2	Ryan Moore	66	71						137
3	Adam Scott	70	68						138
T4	Henrik Stenson	69	71						140
T4	Bubba Watson	71	69						140
T6	Dustin Johnson	68	73						141
T6	Alexander Levy	68	73						141
T6	Ryan Palmer	71	70						141
T9	Jamie Donaldson	70	72						142
T9	Sergio Garcia	73	69						142
T11	Webb Simpson	74	69						143
T11	Jim Furyk	70	73						143
T11	Lee Westwood	71	72						143
T11	Charl Schwartzel	71	72						143
T11	Brooks Koepka	69	74						143
T11	Rory McIlroy	73	70						143
T11	John Senden	73	70						143
T18	Charley Hoffman	70	74						144
T18	Morgan Hoffmann	73	71						144
T18	Gary Woodland	70	74						144
T18	Patrick Reed	71	73						144
T18	Jordan Spieth	75	69						144
T23	Shane Lowry	71	74						145
T23	Victor Dubuisson	72	73						145
T23	Rickie Fowler	68	77						145
T23	Louis Oosthuizen	71	74						145
T23	Brendon Todd	72	73						145
T23	Kevin Na	74	71						145
T29	Sang-Moon Bae	75	71						146
T29	Graeme McDowell	73	73						146
T31	Billy Horschel	72	75						147
T31	Cameron Tringale	73	74						147
T31	Martin Kaymer	71	76						147
T31	Thomas Aiken	78	69						147
T31	Keegan Bradley	73	74						147
T31	David Lipsky	74	73						147
T31	Jimmy Walker	71	76						147
T31	Justin Rose	73	74						147
T31	Bill Haas	74	73						147
T31	Brandt Snedeker	74	73						147
T41	Bernd Wiesberger	74	74						148
T41	Marc Warren	73	75						148
T41	Matt Kuchar	73	75						148
T41	Paul Casey	75	73						148
T41	Russell Henley	74	74						148
T41	Phil Mickelson	74	74						148
T41	Hideki Matsuyama	76	72						148
T41	Danie Van Tonder	74	74						148
T41	Luke Donald	72	76						148
T41	Joost Luiten	79	69						148
T51	Zach Johnson	76	73						149
T51	Danny Willett	73	76						149
T51	Greg Chalmers	77	72						149
T51	Ross Fisher	78	71						149
T51	Branden Grace	75	74						149
T51	Steven Jeffress	75	74						149
T57	Marcel Siem	78	72						150
T57	Jason Day	76	74						150
T57	Jason Dufner	79	71						150
T57	Mikko Ilonen	78	72						150
T57	Alexander Noren	73	77						150
T57	Geoff Ogilvy	74	76						150
T63	Robert Streb	72	80						152
T63	Ian Poulter	74	78						152
T63	Koumei Oda	74	78						152
T66	Chris Kirk	76	77						153
T66	Thongchai Jaidee	80	73						153
T68	Tommy Fleetwood	77	77						154
T68	Hunter Mahan	75	79						154
T68	Gary Stal	75	79						154
T71	Anirban Lahiri	80	76						156
T71	Stephen Gallacher	84	72						156
73	Hiroyuki Fujita	75	83						158
WD	Thomas Bjorn	WD