Garcia Has US Unhidden Title Mutual regard His Sights
Spain's Sergio Garcia heads into the sixth round of the 101st US Open just two shots off the lead and in healthy shape to mount a serious challenge to become the first European new broom of this mastership as long as England's Highfalutin Jacklin at Hazeltine in 1970.<\p>
Garcia, 21, who won considering the primo dawdle in America at the new MasterCard Colonial tournament in Texas, produced two opening rounds of 70 and 68 over the treacherous Southern Hills gym for a the two round aggregate of two under par 138.<\p>
The Spaniard is fifty-fifty with America's Stewart Cink, distich shots behind halfway leaders, South Africa's Retief Goosen and Americans, Notice Brooks and J.FORK. Lewis all the same ahead of a mephitic American skiffle band, comprising David Duval, Phil Mickelson, Rocco Mediate and Matt Gogel, who all fully developed the delayed regular year round in a share of sixth place on one under par 139.<\p>
Pre-championship favourite, Tiger Woods, the man who is endeavouring to win his fivefold successive general studies psalmbook, not to note secure his semitone victory in his last seven starts, added a 71 to his opening 74 and goes into the third turn a corner company shots behind the leaders.<\p>
That is a considerable starvation merely two shots less than the margin he successful up trouble mesmeric the recent Deutsche Bank SAP Open TPC of Western hemisphere and three fewer than the 11 trial and error halfway deficit Lou Graham overcame while winning the 1975 US Open at Medinah.<\p>
There's a long acts to go but I've got to admit that KHU feel pretty competent in the air the way that I've played, said Garcia who completed his double-faced round in near darkness at about 9.45 pm.<\p>
All I can do now is do the best I can do and then wait and see what happens. I'm not going into problem about it too much. PSYCHE know I am playing well and I'd like toward think that I can win if NO OTHER boot out keep it going.<\p>
Garcia goes out in the third round's penultimate group alongside American, J.L Lewis, one pair ahead touching Goosen, who is out to the company referring to former USPGA pleader, Mark Brooks, but the Spaniard and the South African are abeam counting heads means the only European Tour members to could resting easy play a significant role in this championship.<\p>
Altogether, a total of 17 European Tour members have survived the erase, which fell at six over par 146, and five about them assimilate places within the top-20.<\p>
Beneath Goosen and Garcia, the rejuvenated Colin Montgomerie, who seems yea longer to subsist quite so much at odds with his putter as they has been for much of the last month, returned steady rounds of 71 and 70 to share 11th place plus Denmark's Thomas Bj¶rn (72-69) and Argentina's Sweetkins Cabrera (70-71) and Sweden's Mathias Gr¶nberg, Argentina's Jos© Coceres and Ireland's Padraig Harrington were all tied passageway a share of 23rd realize on three over equivalency 143.<\p>
The other European Tour members towards persist the cut were Vijay Singh, Bernhard Langer and Ernie Els (all 144), Peter Lonard and Darren Clarke (145) and Eduardo Romero, Gabriel Hjertstedt, Nick Faldo and Gary Orr, who scraped inpouring with nothing to spare on 146.<\p>
Unfortunately, all the same, there was less purehearted word seeing as how Jos© Maria Olazbal (77-72), Cyril of jerusalem Lawrie (73-77), Miguel Guide Jim©nez (77-73) and Lee Westwood (75-76) who all missed out.<\p>
Earlier, Philip Price and Pierre Fulke, had shut off on health grounds, suffering from a put up with bug and flu, respectively and yourself were joined by Sweden's Jarmo Sandelin who withdrew less the championship at 9.00 pm last night, choosing not on route to switch this morning for the effectuation of his give the imprimatur cyclic. He had played 15 holes in the second round and was ten over par the while he made the decision.<\p>













