David Toms shot his second straight 67 Friday and had a one stroke lead on Billy Mayfair after two rounds of the Honda Classic in Palm Beach Gardens.
Mayfair shot a bogey-free round of 67, with four birdies in his final five holes, taking advantage of the less-perilous front side of the course to climb the leaderboard.
And the front side continued to be kind to Toms, who made six birdies on that half -- including a run of four straight for the second day in a row. He's got 11 birdies on his two jaunts across the first nine holes.
Toms is at 10-under 134.
Defending champion Padraig Harrington (67), Daniel Chopra (65), Mathias Gronberg (71) and Geoff Ogilvy (71) are all four strokes back of Toms.
Chopra's five-birdie, one-eagle, no-bogey 65 was the lowest score of the first two rounds.
Lee Westwood (66), Luke Donald (67) and Paul Azinger (67) are among eight golfers tied at 5-under par.
Annika Sorenstam shot a 5-under 67 in her first competitive round of the year to finish tied for the lead with Italy's Silvia Cavalleri in the MasterCard Classic in Huixquilucan, Mexico.
Sorenstam, who sat out the first two tournaments of the season in Hawaii last month, also made her 2005 debut here, winning the 54-hole event outside of Mexico City.
Norway's Suzann Pettersen was in third place after the opening round, at 4-under.
Mitch Adcock shot a 5-under 67 to take the lead after the first round of the AT&T Classic in Valencia, Calif., by one stroke over Ben Crenshaw and Jay Sigel.
-- From wire reports
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