Ireland's Richard Coughlan had to resign himself to another missed cut yesterday after he could only manage a four-over-par 76 in the second round of the Freeport Classic.
It left him at two-over-par, 12 shots behind American left-hander Steve Flesch, who added a 68 to his opening 66 for a two-stroke lead over Duffy Waldorf and Japan's Naomichi "Joe" Ozaki, younger brother of world number 10 Jumbo. Coughlan started badly with an early double bogey, which wiped out his first round 70, and never got his game together after that.
"That double bogey six on the 14th (his fifth) set a bad tone for the day and then I made a couple of bad decisions in the wind," he said.
Bunkered in two at the 14th, he thinned his recovery over the green and needed three more to hole out. He turned in 38, then bogeyed the first, third and fourth.
Lee Westwood's hopes of a first victory in America were alive and kicking after a second round 68. The bogey-free display took the 24year-old from Worksop, 13th and fifth in the Bay Hill Invitational and Players' Championship the last two weeks, on to the seven under par mark of 137.
