SportsFebruary 18, 2006

Tiger Woods got caught in the rain without an umbrella. And with sloppy bogeys on the final two holes Friday, he left Riviera wondering if he would get a tee time on the weekend. Soaked to the bone, his cap on backward to keep rain from dripping off the brim, Woods missed an 8-foot par putt on his final hole for a 3-over 74 that put him below the cut line and left him desperate for help from the four dozen players trying to finish in shivering conditions...

Tiger Woods got caught in the rain without an umbrella. And with sloppy bogeys on the final two holes Friday, he left Riviera wondering if he would get a tee time on the weekend.

Soaked to the bone, his cap on backward to keep rain from dripping off the brim, Woods missed an 8-foot par putt on his final hole for a 3-over 74 that put him below the cut line and left him desperate for help from the four dozen players trying to finish in shivering conditions.

When the second round finally ended, he got enough help to make it on the number.

Rory Sabbatini couldn't feel his toes when he teed off Friday morning in temperatures in the 40s, but warmed up with a 5-under 66 that turned into a four-shot lead at 10 under at the end of a bizarre day off Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.

Thomas Levet (68) and Craig Barlow (69) were tied for second at 6 under.

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Champions Tour

Loren Roberts opened his bid for a third straight Champions Tour victory with a 5-under 67, leaving him two strokes behind leader R.W. Eaks after the first round of The ACE Group Classic in Naples, Fla.

Roberts, coming off season-opening wins in Hawaii, is attempting to become the first player to win the first three events of the season. Don January (1981), Bruce Fleisher (1999) and Larry Nelson (2001) also opened with two victories.

Tom Watson, Brad Bryant, Don Pooley and Rick Karbowski shot 66s on the TwinEagles course, and Roberts joined Fuzzy Zoeller, Gil Morgan and Dan Pohl at 67.

LPGA Tour

South Korea's Joo Mi Kim tied the SBS Open record with a 7-under 65 for a share of the second-round lead with compatriot Sung Ah Yim and Becky Iverson at 9-under 135 in Hahuku, Hawaii.

The three were in the morning session, which had an easy time in balmy and unusually calm conditions on the Turtle Bay Resort's oceanside Arnold Palmer Course. But the conditions picked up later in the day, challenging the afternoon players.

-- From wire reports

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