He was in obvious pain and left the track with an ice pack
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He was in obvious pain and left the track with an ice pack strapped to his chest."I got overconfident on a fresh set of tires," Newman said. "The tires weren't warm enough and I slipped."Newman's car, a Porsche 996 GT3R, had superficial damage to the windshield, nose and rear bumper."This is a hiccup, that's all," said Kevin Jeannette, Newman's team manager "Paul was the unlucky one today. Actor Paul Newman bruised his ribs after his race car crashed into a tire barrier at Daytona International Speedway in Florida. Asked if he was surprised to see Woods eating up an otherwise difficult golf course, Begay simply smiled."He's supposed to, isn't he?" he said.Second-round scores from the Mercedes Championship at Kapalua, Hawaii (US unless stated):137 T Woods 71 66141 E Els (Rsa) 71 70143 J Parnevik (Swe) 69 74144 J Sluman 72 72145 D Duval 72 73, J Furyk 72 73, T Herron 74 71146 B Geiberger 73 73, D Waldorf 70 76148 B Faxon 72 76149 S Appleby (Aus) 73 76, M Weir (Can) 76 73, P Lawrie (Gbr) 76 73, G Day 74 75150 S Elkington (Aus) 76 74, V Singh (Fij) 73 77, H Sutton 77 73, D Toms 75 75, T Tryba 80 70151 T Pernice Jnr 75 76, C Franco (Par) 78 73152 O Browne 77 75, G Hjertstedt (Swe) 78 74, J Maggert 80 72, R Mediate 79 73, N Begay 73 79155 B Henninger 77 78156 L Roberts 76 80159 J L Lewis 78 81161 R Beem 84 77. Actor Paul Newman bruised his ribs after his race car crashed into a tire barrier at Daytona International Speedway in Florida. Newman, 74, was examined by a doctor in the infield and later went to Hallifax Medical Center for further evaluation following the accident on Thursday.He was treated for bruised ribs on the upper left side of his chest.
The first came on the 398-yard sixth hole when his tee shot sailed over a bunker in the middle of the fairway, caught the downslope and stopped 50 feet (15 meters) from the pin.Parnevik was tied with Woods for much of the round, but he didn't drive the green on any par-4s In fact, the Swede hit his tee shot on No. 12 in the same shrubs that led to double bogey in the first round.Notah Begay, a teammate of Woods at Stanford, also made a run until he took a triple bogey and a quadruple bogey on the back nine, going from three shots off the lead to 11 shots back in the span of two holes.Begay knows as well as anyone what to expect from Woods. Open champion, to show that he was ready to raise his talent a notch to challenge Woods. Not this day.The South African known as "Big Easy" tried to keep pace with Woods, but he was no match, especially off the tee.Woods rode the wind to a couple of phenomenal drives. "If you're playing well, you can shoot those type of scores any time."Friday would have been the perfect occasion for Els, the two-time U.S.
"He has the potential to be the best player in the last 50 years, no doubt about that. You could pat him on the back, but what's the point? He knows how good he is."Defending champion David Duval had two bad swings on the par-5s, both of which led to bogeys, and wound up with a 73 that left him at 145 - eight strokes back."I'm not surprised," Duval said. The dominance was similar to his final round at Valderrama, where he won for the fourth straight time to close out a sensational season.Seven weeks later, not much has changed The cast of contenders has changed, as it has every week. The name at the top stays the same."The more you're in awe of him, the more you can't beat him," Stuart Appleby said. Should Woods have warned him?"I don't think I would have heard him, being 500 yards away," Furyk said with a laugh. "The fans were trying to tell me to watch out, but I didn't know what they were talking about."Watch out, indeed!Woods' 66 was more than eight shots better than the average score on Friday, and only five other players managed to break par. "I just tried to get the ball on the green and make some putts."With birdies on five of the last seven holes, Woods finished two rounds on the wind-ravaged Plantation course at 9-under 137 and a four-stroke lead over Ernie Els."Some guys say, 'If I can just keep it around par ...' But he knows that under any conditions, he can shoot 64," Tim Herron said.Els had a 3-under 70 and was at 141 Jesper Parnevik made another double bogey on No 12 and finished with a 74, five shots back of Woods.
