Atwal misses cut again, Chopra stays on course at Bay Hill

Miami, Mar 18 (UNI) Ghost of the greens continues to haunt Arjun Atwal and the Orlando-based Indian's nightmarish 12-over 84 saw him missing the cut in his second successive tournament even though Indian-born Swede Daniel Chopra stayed in hunt after halfway stage of the five million dollar Bay Hill Invitational here.

For someone who made 16 cuts in 17 tournaments last season, a record better than even the peerless Tiger Woods, Atwal has had a bad season so far, missing the cuts in the FBR Open, Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and last week's Honda Classic and the woeful run contunues.

Daniel Chopra had a level-par second round that took his two-day tally to one-under 143 and he hangs on at tied 39th.

The former Asian Tour regular dropped a shot on the first hole and worse awaited him on the the third, in the form of a double bogey. Chopra, however, negated the setbacks with birdies on the second, 15th and 17th.

Atwal, meanwhile, would like to drop curtain on his second round show, which was a pathetic saga of dropped shots.

He dropped a shot in the first hole, hit a triple bogey on the second, and two par shots later, had a hat-trick of bogeys as he dropped seven shots in as many holes in his front nine.

Coming back, Atwal was hardly better as he dropped a shot each on the 12th, 15th and 17th and signed off with a disaster, a double bogey, to complete the ordeal.

Lucas Glover (134) shot to the top of the leaderboard with his second successive round of five-under 67, one stroke clear of Australians Robert Allenby and Rod Pampling.

Tiger Woods, eyeing a record fifth title, carded one-under 71, seven shots off the lead.

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