WGC-CA CHAMPIONSHIP:AS THE sun warmed up the Doral course yesterday morning and Tiger Woods made his equally inevitable move to the top of the leaderboard in the early second-round play at the CA Championship, the search was on to identify the player who will bring the colossus to his knees, or at the very least beat him over 72 holes.

There are those who eventually will (Phil Mickelson, Jim Furyk), those who have a lottery winner's chance (too many to mention) and those who have the natural talent and youthful confidence to suggest they could.

Into this final category must fall Martin Kaymer, the 23-year-old German and the cognoscenti's pick to become the next big star of the European game.

"He is the one you want to watch," Pádraig Harrington, the British Open champion, had said on the eve of this year's Abu Dhabi Championship. A few days on, Kaymer won the tournament.

He almost repeated the trick a couple of weeks later in Dubai, where his approach shot at the 72nd, a three-iron over water which landed 10 feet from the hole, will live long in the memory of those who were lucky enough to see it.

He holed the putt for an eagle to finish as runner-up behind - guess who?

"It was unbelievable to finish second behind Tiger in Dubai," he said this week, before brushing off the suggestion that he might be one of those who would be terrified if he ever found himself going head to head with the world number one over the back nine on a Sunday afternoon. "Not at all. I think it would be a very good position to be in because everyone would expect him to win, so you can never lose."

Kaymer's impressive start to the season has seen him rise to 23rd in the world ranking, earning him automatic entry into the Masters and world championship events such as this week's - an opportunity to raise his profile which he looked set to take advantage of after his opening 68, four under par, at Doral and added a second round 74 for a halfway total of 142.

That left him 10 shots behind the leader Geoff Ogilvy and nine adrift of Woods.

Ogilvy carded a flawless five-under-par 67 while Woods, who has won his past seven tournament starts, carded two eagles in a six-under-par 66 in a testing easterly breeze.

Woods finished in style with birdies at his final two holes, sinking a breaking 20-footer at the last to punctuate another excellent day at the office, posting an 11-under 133 halfway total.

Woods, who played the par-five holes in a total of four under, said that was the key to his round.

"The par fives are where you've got to score," he said. "With today's wind, you could hit two (of them) with irons, so you've got to make sure you take care of those. Play those in three or four under and the rest of the round in one or two underwas pretty good.

"On (number 12) I had a simple little bunker shot and kept telling myself to make sure I hit it hard enough. When it landed, I thought 'that looks pretty good' and about two feet out it was centre cut."

This World Golf Championships event has become Woods' own personal property. He has won it six times in eight attempts, on six different courses no less.

Woods has not lost in more than six months, winning five times on the US PGA Tour, the European Tour's Dubai Desert Classic and his own Target Challenge.

Graeme McDowell double bogeyed the last for a one-under-par 71 for a 143 total.

WORLD GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

(Doral, Miami, Florida)

Second round

132 - Geoff Ogilvy (Aus) 65 67

133 - Tiger Woods 67 66

135 - Adam Scott (Aus) 67 68

138 - Robert Karlsson (Swe) 68 70

Jeev M Singh (Ind) 68 70, Anders Hansen (Den) 67 71

139 - Miguel A Jimenez (Spa) 65 74 Steve Stricker 71 68, Mark Calcavecchia 68 71

140 - Soren Kjeldsen (Swe) 69 71, Luke Donald (Eng) 68 72, Andres Romero (Arg) 68 72, Retief Goosen (Rsa) 71 69, Chapchai Nirat (Thi) 70 70, Jim Furyk 69 71, Sterart Cink 66 74, KJ Choi (Kor) 70 70, Wood Austin 70 70 Tim Clark (Rsa) 70 70

141 - JB Holmes 69 72, Graeme Storm 71 70 Zach Johnson 69 72, Scott Verplank 71 70 Ross Fisher 68 73, Vijay Singh (Fiji) 73 68 , Justin Rose (Eng) 70 71., Phil Mickelson 67 74, Niclas Dasth (Swe) 72 69, Stephen Ames (Can) 73 68 Ryuji Imada (Jpn) 68 73

142 - Sergio Garcia (Spas) 69 73, Mike Weir (Can) 73 69, Nick O'Hern 67 75, Gregory Havret 68 74, Arron Oberholser 72 70,

Daniel Chopra 72 70, Martin Kaymer (Ger) 68 74

143 - Graeme McDowell (NIrl) 72 71,

Ian Poulter (Eng) 71 72, Lee Westwood (Eng) 71 72, Aaron Baddeley (Aus) 69 74, Justin Leonard 69 74, Camilo Villegas (Col) 71 72

144 - Brett Wetterich 70 74, Brandt Snedeker 74 70, Trevor Immelman (Rsa) 70 74, Robert Allenby (Aus) 69 75, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 73 71, Henrik Stenson (Swe) 72 72. Hunter Mahan 72 72.

145 - Boo Weekley 72 73, Paul Sheehan (AUS) 72 73, Charles Howell III 69 76, John Rollins 74 71, Peter Hanson (Swe) 71 74

146 - Louis Oosthuizen 74 72, Heath Slocum 74 72, Richard Green 74 72, Rory Sabbatini (Rsa) 72 74,

147 - Paul Casey (Eng) 72 75 D.J. Trahan 74 73, SP Chowrasia (Ind) 74 73, Mark Brown (Aus) 73 74

148 - WC Liang (Chi) 74 74, Sean O'Hair 73 75, Jonathan Byrd 74 74, Andrew McLardy 74 74 James Kingston 74 74, Richard Sterne (Rsa) 71 77, Criag Parry 73 75

149 - Angel Cabrera (Arg) 75 74, James Kingston 74 75, Ernie Els (Rsa) 74 75, Colin M Montgomerie (Sco) 75 74

151 - Shingo Katayama (Kor) 75 76, Brendan Jones (Aus) 76 75

152 - Anton Haig (Rsa) 72 80

154 - Soren Hansen (Den) 77 77

EUROPEAN MADEIRA ISLAND OPEN

(Santo da Serra, Madeira, Portugal)

The 72 players still on the course when the klaxon sounded to end play for the day will return this morning to resume their second rounds at 8.00am, meaning the third round - in threeball groupings from both the first and tenth tees, will not begin before 11.30am.

Completed second roundscores (Irish in bold, Brotish unless stated, par 72):

134 -Hennie Otto (Rsa) 67 67

139 - Adilson Da Silva (Bra) 71 68

140 - Alastair Forsyth 70 70

141 - Raphael Eyraud (Fra) 70 71

142 - Andrew Oldcorn 71 71

143 - Hugo Santos (Por) 72 71, Pablo Larrazabal (Spa) 73 70

144 - Alan McLean 72 72

145 - Gary Lockerbie 71 74, Sion Bebb 71 74, Peter Whiteford 70 75, Markus Brier (Aut) 71 74, Bradley Dredge 70 75

146 - Ben Evans 74 72, Christian Nilsson (Swe) 76 70, Steve Alker (Nzl) 76 70, Sebastien Delagrange (Fra) 71 75

147 - George Murray 73 74, Andrew McArthur 75 72, Santiago Luna (Spa) 73 74, Simon Wakefield 74 73

148 - Iain Pyman 76 72, Paul Waring 75 73, Edoardo Molinari (Ita) 72 76, Philip Golding 75 73, Manuel Quiros (Spa) 71 77

149 - Anthony Wall 76 73, Richard Bland 71 78, Alvaro Salto (Spa) 73 76, Andreas Hogberg (Swe) 73 76, John Mellor 73 76, Alessandro Tadini (Ita) 73 76, Julio Zapata (Arg) 76 73, Fredrik Andersson Hed (Swe) 75 74

150 - Felipe Aguilar (Chi) 74 76, Juan Parron (Spa) 70 80, Patrik Sjoland (Swe) 73 77, Jamie Little 75 75, Rafael Echenique (Arg) 72 78, Peter Fowler (Aus) 79 71

151 - Lee S James 72 79, Luis Claverie (Spa) 72 79, Michael Jonzon (Swe) 73 78, Sean Hawker (Por) 78 73, Antonio Rosado (Por) 79 72

152 - Robert Rock 76 76, David

Drysdale 80 72, Peter Baker 76 76, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 73 79, Stuart Manley 77 75, Dave Horsey 75 77

153 - Darren Fichardt (Rsa) 76 77

154 - Craig Lee 80 74, Stephen Dodd 75 79, Kyron Sullivan 71 83, Benoit Teilleria

(Fra) 80 74

155 - Olivier David (Fra) 80 75, Rolf Muntz (Ned) 78 77, Fabrizio Zanotti (Par) 76 79, Rikard Karlberg (Swe) 75 80

156 - Tiago Cruz (Por) 78 78, Joao Pedro Sousa (Por) 78 78, Steven O'Hara 77 79

157 - Gary Boyd 79 78, Robert Dinwiddie 76 81, Warren Bennett 78 79

158 - Fredrik Henge (Swe) 78 80

161 - Joao Carlota (Por) 74 87

165 - Francois Calmels (Fra) 81 84

Peter Lawrie 75, and +3 for tournament after nine holes.