Aaron Baddeley, Rich Beem and Mike Weir are tied for the lead at the Deutsche Bank Championship but it looks like Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will have plenty to say about who wins.
Baddeley, Beem and Weir each are at nine-under-par 133 after two rounds of the FedEx Cup event and they share a one-shot lead. Mickelson is in a group of four players at eight-under 134 and Woods is tied for 13th at six-under 136.
Baddeley, who played with Woods in the final group on Sunday at the US Open, carded a 66 at TPC Boston. Beem also shot 66 and Weir signed for a 68 but it was Woods and Mickelson who turned in the rounds of the day.
Playing together, along with Vijay Singh, Woods and Mickelson got off to slow starts on Friday but were at the top of their games in the second round and each signed for a seven-under 64.
The defending champion Woods got hot on his final nine. He double-bogeyed the par-four fourth on Thursday but made up for it with an eagle on Saturday. He drove the green and dropped a 33-foot putt. He had birdied the two holes prior to that and added two more at numbers six and seven to cap a stellar round.
Mickelson had his own hot stretch in the middle of the round when he played eight holes in seven-under. He birdied 15 and 16 and finished his front nine with an eagle at 18.
He maintained his momentum on the inward half, birdying numbers one, two and four before closing a bogey-free round with a string of five pars.
Singh had a 66 to keep himself from missing a third straight cut.
Baddeley had seven birdies and two bogeys to grab a share of the lead. At 21st in the Cup, he is well inside the cutoff of the top 70 to advance to next week's event.
Beem and Weir are not as fortunate. Beem needs to finish no worse than second to move on and Weir needs to finish in the top five to have any chance of moving into the top 70 and playing the BMW Championship outside Chicago.
Sean O'Hair (66), Brett Wetterich (68) and Ryan Moore (69) are tied with Mickelson at eight-under. Colombian Camilo Villegas followed up an opening eight-under 63 with a 72 and is at seven-under.
Padraig Harrington failed to make the cut after two rounds of 72.
