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By The Associated Press
Arizona Daily Wildcat
August 23, 1996
CORNELIUS, Ore. - Stanford's Tiger Woods got all that he could handle on the second day of match play at the U.S. Amateur Championship, but he was simply too good for a 37-year-old veteran and a 17-year-old up-and-comer.Woods won his second-round match 4 and 2 over Jerry Courville on Thursday, breaking open an even contest by winning three consecutive holes beginning at No. 12.
Then Woods advanced to the quarterfinals in the afternoon with a 3-and-1 victory over Charles Howell. The 17-year-old from Augusta, Ga. - home of the Masters - was the first of Woods' 19 opponents in U.S. Amateur competition who was younger than Woods.
In both matches, Woods was far from at his best, but simply wore down opponents with one titanic tee shot after another, routinely driving the ball more than 320 yards and hitting short irons to greens, while his playing partners hit long irons.
For Woods, who is now 17-2 in the U.S. Amateur, three was the magic number.
He needs three more victories to get his unprecedented third consecutive U.S. Amateur Championship. And in all three of his matches this week, he turned it around on No. 8.
''I feel very positive with the way I'm hitting it,'' Woods said. ''I'm putting much better, and I'm managing my game very well.''
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