Steve Stricker looks to be back to his old tricks with the putter again after he made even the long putts look like tap-ins on his way to 10-under 63 in the second round of the Tournament of Champions and a five-shot lead.
Stricker played the final five holes in 5 under, which gave him the five-shot lead from Webb Simpson, and six ahead of Kevin Na who amazingly finished his round with two eagles.
"It'll be the best finish of my life," Na said.
Na wasn't even part of the picture until he holed a 5-iron from 200 meters on the 17th, and followed that up with an eagle three on the par-5 18th.
It turned a decent round into a 64, and put Na in the hunt – well as much in the hunt as anyone can be when Stricker starts putting like that, Only eight players were within 10 shots of Stricker at the end of the day.
Stricker's 15-under total after 36 holes is very impressive and vastly better than anyone else playing the Tournament of Champions this year, but still two shots short of the 36-hole record that Ernie Els set in 2003.
