Date: March 17, 2007
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Aussies’ poor day

Geoff Ogilvy and Peter Lonard have played poorly on day two of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, carding rounds of 70 and 71 respectively to slip down the leaderboard. The best placed of the Aussies, Ogilvy had a horror start to the round with Bogeys on one and four and a double bogey on six. He regrouped to birdie the next hole and picked up strokes on 11 13 and 18 to stay in touch. He is in a share of seventh with Lonard, both players are one under. Tiger Woods admitted he played a horror round after the joint overnight leader slipped to 16th on the leaderboard. His round of 73 included an uncharacteristic three bogeys and a double bogey on six. American Rocco Meidate is the outright leader after a superb round of 65. He benefited greatly from joint overnight leader Paul Casey&aposs horror round, the American only managing an even-par round of 70. He is now three shots adrift of Meidate who is on nine under. Casey slips back to second where he is joined by American John Rollins who, like Mediate, carded a 65 to rocket up the leaderboard. Other Aussies still in contention include Mark Hensby (+1), Aaron Baddeley (+2) Steve Elkington (+3) and Robert Allenby (+3) Results from the second round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational: -9 Rocco Meidate 66 65 -6 Paul Casey 64 70, John Rollins 69 65 -5 Stephen Ames 68 67, Shaun Micheel 67 68, Sergio Garcia 66 69, Ben Curtis 68 67, Vaughn Taylor 64 71 -4 Jerry Kelly 67 69, Sean O&aposHair 66 70, Trevor Immelman 66 70, Tom Lehman 67 69 -3 Stephen Marino 67 70, Bo Van Pelt 67 70, Frank Lickliter II 69 68 Also: -1 Geoff Ogilvy (Australia) 69 70, Peter Lonard (Australia) 68 71 E Stuart Appleby (Australia) 70 70 +1 Mark Hensby (Australia) 72 69 +2 Aaron Baddeley (Australia) 72 70 +3 Steve Elkington (Australia) 70 73, Robert Allenby (Australia) 70 73