Despite odd closing hole, Woods leads

Tiger Woods hit a 9-iron over the clubhouse roof and escaped with a bogey on the final hole of an otherwise stellar second round at the Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio, on Friday.

Woods birdied his first four holes and shot a 6-under 64 to take a one-shot lead over Davis Love III.

On Woods' final hole, No. 9, he hit a 9-iron from the right rough 167 yards away that jumped out of the grass, soared over the flag and over the grandstands. It hit the concrete path and bounced over a balcony and onto the roof.

From the back of the clubhouse, a deputy sheriff Bill Muncy saw a golf ball bouncing around the service area below him and next to someone from the Firestone kitchen staff. The worker put the ball in the cup holder of a golf cart and drove off to a villa.

Woods stood in the fairway for nearly 10 minutes before rules officials arrived and tried to figure out the next step.

The rules official talked to the deputy sheriff and then went about figuring out where Woods should drop. There was no penalty because the grandstands -- known as a temporary immovable obstruction -- were in his way.

Woods eventually took relief from the rough near the first tee, 84 yards away, hit a lob wedge to 30 feet and two-putted for bogey, putting him at 9-under 131 going into the weekend.

Reno-Tahoe Open

Yusaku Miyazato became the first golfer to make two holes-in-one in the same round of a PGA Tour tournament when he aced a pair of par 3s at the Reno-Tahoe Open. Miyazato accomplished the feat on the 230-yard, downhill seventh hole and then the 173-yard, uphill No. 12 at the Montreux Golf and Country Club.

-- The Associated Press