Tiger Woods and Justin Rose share halfway lead at Tour Championship

• Woods has not won on PGA Tour since 2013
• Rose recently installed as world No 1

Tiger Woods sits joint top of a PGA Tour leaderboard after 36 holes for the first time since 2015 after a second round of 68 at the Tour Championship. Woods, who is seeking to end a five-year wait for a win, has Justin Rose for company at East Lake. For a a Friday spell things looked so much better for Woods. Lengthy birdie putts at the 14th and 15th afforded him a two- shot advantage over the field. As is a feature of this course, trouble duly arrived; Woods missed the fairway at the 16th, which triggered a double-bogey six. A birdie at the last repaired some of that damage.

“I didn’t hit it very well overall today,” Woods conceded.

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