Darren Clarke's indifferent form on the US Tour continued in California yesterday when he failed to make the cut by six shots in the Los Angeles Open at the Riviera Club.

Clarke followed Thursday's 73 with a 74 yesterday, leaving him on 147, 14 shots off the jointleaders Bob Tway and Greg Chalmers at nine under (133).

Tiger Woods's one-under-par 70 leaves him five shots off the pace. He is one of 16 players on four under, including David Duval, Vijay Singh, Jesper Parnevik and Fred Couples.

Surprise package and little known J P Hayes, who led after the first round with a 64, kept that momentum going with a one-under 70 to leave him one shot behind the leaders on 134.

Woods's round was compiled despite a double-bogey at the par-four 13th.

"I didn't have a good lie at all," said Woods, who hit his approach to the right into the deep rough. "The lie was one of those lies where it could have come out soft like it did, or it could have come out jumpy and hot and go over the other side.

"I just tried to play a nice little one up there, somewhere on the green, just trying to make my bogey or maybe get lucky and try to make my putt."

Instead he was short, then chipped nine feet past and two-putted, his first double-bogey since a triple-bogey in fourth round of the World Golf Championship American Express Championship at Valderrama, Spain, last November, which he won in a playoff.

Woods, whose six-tournament US winning streak - the longest in 52 years - ended last week, said the crush of attention on him wasn't a problem.

"The only thing getting on my nerves is the ball not going in the hole," Woods said. "I'm just really frustrated with the putts not going in. They're good putts!"

He said playing partners Steve Pate and Hal Sutton had the same problem. "All the putts we lipped out, we didn't hit bad putts, they just didn't go in."

Lee Westwood, the world number seven, had to withdraw yesterday with a dose of flu that had him feeling "desperate" after crawling round the Riviera course.