Road to match-play title opens up for Woods

Tiger Woods had an easy time advancing Thursday in the Accenture Match Play Championship. And with Jim Furyk, Phil Mickelson and the other top seeds no longer around, his road to an eighth straight PGA Tour victory started looking easier, too.

Woods was 5-up through six holes and was never seriously challenged by Tim Clark, the South African recovering from a neck injury and playing his first tournament of the year. The result was a 5-and-4 victory, the shortest match of the second round.

Mickelson's up-and-down West Coast Swing came to a stunning end with an incredible up-and-down by Justin Rose.

Lefty figured the match would be all square going to the par-3 16th tee after Rose, who was 1-up, hit into the desert brush and had to chip out backward to the fairway, hitting his third shot 30 feet short of the flag.

Rose's par putt dropped on the last turn, however, keeping the lead and momentum on his side. Mickelson felt he had no choice to go after what he called a "carnival" pin on the 16th, and it went too far and off a shelf, leading to bogey.

Rose closed him out with a birdie on the 17th to win, 3 and 1.

Chad Campbell rallied against Furyk, making an 18-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole to go overtime, then two-putting from 50 feet for birdie to win in 19 holes.

That left Woods, the No. 1 seed, as the only player among the top eight seeds still around after two days at The Gallery.

But all he had to was look at his third-round match Friday to realize how far he has to go. Next up is Nick O'Hern, a short but straight-hitting Australian who beat Woods two years ago at La Costa.

PGA Tour

Fred Funk shot an 8-under 62 to take a two-stroke lead in the Mayakoba Golf Classic in Playa Del Carmen, the first PGA Tour event in Mexico.

The 50-year-old Funk, an 11-stroke winner last month in the Champions Tour's Turtle Bay Championship, is trying to join Craig Stadler as the only players to win a PGA Tour event after winning on the 50-and-over tour. Stadler won the B.C. Open a week after winning the Ford Senior Players Championship in 2003.

Cameron Beckman had the day's best stretch with six birdies in seven holes, but couldn't manage any others and was two shots behind at 64 along with George McNeill, John Merrick and Boo Weekley.

LPGA Tour

Angela Park shot a 6-under 66 in windy conditions Thursday for a share of the first-round lead with Stacy Prammanasudh in the Fields Open in Kapolei, Hawaii.

The 18-year-old Park, making just her fourth LPGA Tour start, birdied five of the first seven holes and made the turn at 31. She drove into the rough for a bogey on No. 10, but hit a wedge to set up her 7-foot birdie putt on 14 and sank a 25-footer for birdie on the 16th to reach 6 under on the wide-open Ko Olina course.

Se Ri Pak, who needs to play just eight more events to qualify for the World Golf Hall of Fame this year, made a late move to open with a 67. Meaghan Francella survived a triple bogey and was at 68, along with Kyeong Bae.

Jeong Jang, Jee Young Lee, Nicole Perrot and Pat Hurst shot 69s.

-- From wire reports