An exhilarating display from Miguel
Martin and Santiago Luna banished the US team to second place,
despite six birdies from Mark O'Meara.
Both Martin and Luna shot rounds of 66 - five-under-par - taking
Spain's total to a 12-under-par 272.
"Spain won this event four times in eight years from 1976 but
we haven't done a thing in it since," Martin said.
"It's
time to put Spain back on the World Cup map and we can do it because
we are both in great form. We know we were playing with the best
player in the world and the man who won two majors last year but
that does not intimidate us.
"They
are like us with clubs and ball and anyway, they were perfect gentlemen
to play with. That was very relaxing."
O'Meara's 65, the joint-best round of the day and the week so
far, pushed the US up to second place on 273. Woods double-bogeyed
again, as he did in the first round, but six birdies in a 68 earned
him top place in the individual section along with Martin and Wales'
Phil Price on seven-under-par 135.
Sweden lie third, five off the lead, after rounds of 65 for Jarmo
Sandelin and 66 for Patrik Sjoland, with Argentina and Wales a
further stroke back.
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