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Tiger Woods tracker: Live blog of Woods' Day 2 at the Tour Championship

Woods carded a 5-under 65 on Thursday, subsequently sending the gallery at historic East Lake Golf Club into a raucous frenzy.
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ATLANTA–11Alive Sports offers a Tiger Tracker blog for the Tour Championship, as Tiger Woods chases his first professional tournament victory in five years.

To get things up to speed, Woods carded a 5-under 65 on Thursday, capped by an eagle-3 on the par-5 18th hole, subsequently sending the gallery at historic East Lake Golf Club into a raucous frenzy.

Tiger's playing partner on Friday: Rickie Fowler, who opened the day tied with Woods for first place.

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2:39 EST

Woods, who's currently locked into a two-way tie for first place with Jon Rahm (6-under), missed a 20-foot birdie putt on the 4th hole, apparently misreading the slope around the hole.

On the plus, Woods' approach shot from the left side of the fairway was picture-perfect.

2:57 p.m.

At the 5th hole, Woods had an uphill putt from 25 feet for birdie. Everything looked good in the beginning ... before the ball ran out of gas slightly moved to the left of the hole.

A solid par, nonetheless.

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3:16 p.m.

Tiger settles for a disappointing five at the par-5 6th hole. What made it so tough to swallow?

a) Woods birdied this hole on Thursday. It helped him break par for the first time in the tournament.

b) Tiger essentially lost ground on Rahm and Fowler by not claiming birdie here. Rickie Fowler took full advantage of the situation, however, posting a four on the hole.

In fact, Fowler has gone 3-under since the 2nd hole.

3:29 p.m.

Another nondescript par for Woods, as he begins to weave a pattern on the front nine, in terms of limiting his mistakes and waiting for better scoring opportunities on the back nine.

Of equal importance, Woods gained a shot back from Jon Rahm, who just dropped out of the lead.

3:56 p.m.

Woods fails to card a three on the par-4 9th hole, thus falling two shots behind the leader Fowler.

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4:11 p.m.

Rickie Fowler just bogeyed the par-4 10th hole, cutting his two-shot lead in half. Consequently, with his par on the same hole, Woods trails the leader by just one stroke.

4:14 p.m.

Woods went for broke on the par-3 11th hole, trying to get the ball on the shallow side of the green–the result of a difficult pin placement for Friday.

The ball initially hit the rough and then trickled down into a little valley.

On the plus, side, Woods should have a clear vantage point of his uphill chip, perhaps allowing him to put extra backspin on the shot.

4:21 p.m.

Quoting the sage words of NBC Sports golf analyst Gary Koch: "Tiger is 8 for 9 in the scrambling department" for the week, in the aftermath of Woods getting up-and-down from his valley-based chip on the par-3 11th hole.

With this underrated save, Woods remains just one shot back of Fowler (6-under).

4:31 p.m.

What a momentum swing!

With Rickie Fowler's bogey at 12 and Tiger's birdie at the same hole ... Woods now has jumped the cluster of challengers and into the lead--at 6-under.

4:32 p.m.

Justin Rose has caught fire, carding back-to-back birdies. As such, he and Woods now share the lead at 6-under.

4:45 p.m.

Some 17-foot putts have greater meaning than others.

At the par-4 13th hole, Woods was staring at a difficult par putt from a workable range ... but that didn't account for the slight undulation right around the hole.

Sure enough, Tiger compensated for the dip and drained the putt to remain at 6-under. How clutch was the play? It elicited the loudest Woods-related roar of the day.

4:53 p.m.

Woods destroys an iron shot from the fairway, and the ball takes care of the rest ... dancing around the edges of the 14th green, before settling within 20 feet of the hole.

4:56 p.m.

One good turn deserves another. Tiger buries the 20-footer for birdie, thus seizing total control of the leaderboard (7-under).

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4:57 p.m.

Check that. Justin Rose just birdied a hole to reconvene a share of the lead.

5:04 p.m.

AMAZING tee shot from Woods on the par-3 15th. The ball cleanly eclipses the water ... and then trickles to within 25 feet of the hole.

5:09 p.m.

That's back-to-back birdies for Woods, who nails the 23-footer (slightly uphill) to climb to 8-under for the tournament.

5:26 p.m.

Don't be fooled by the pristine conditions of East Lake Golf Club (sunny skies, little wind resistance). The course has played tougher and longer today.

As Exhibit A: Woods incurs a double bogey and drops back into a tie with Justin Rose (6-under).

5:58 p.m.

We have yet another tie for first place at the Tour Championship. Woods missed out an eagle-3 at the 18th hole ... but rebounded for a crucial birdie.

With his 2-under 68 in the books, Woods and Justin Rose are tied for the tourney lead at 7-under.

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