Day 2 at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship

Day 2 of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship again highlighted the phrase, 'survive and move on', as many bracketed match play events do so well.

After his shaky start on day one, Tiger Woods was matched against Nick Watney on the second day of matches in Arizona.

Once again, as it has been in recent events, his putter let him down and perhaps cost him from moving on to day three.

Woods missed a 5 1/2 putt on No. 18 that could have extended the match with Watney. Though his inept putting of late cost him that chance.

"I hit it well all day," said Woods after his match. "I didn't make any putts today and subsequently I didn't win the match."

Watney even said, "We don't see him miss putts like that often."

Sorry, Nick -- Lately, we do.

Dustin Johnson continues his stellar play after coming back from 3-down yesterday to knock of Jim Furyk.

The bomber took care of Francesco Molinari 7 and 5. Dropping just one shot to the Italian the entire match.

Johnson played his final 13 holes of the day at seven-under par. No one was going to beat him that day.

In a somewhat surprising upset on day two, Sang-moon Bae defeated Charl Schwartzel 1-up.

The match was very tight all day between the two.

Bae started out slow, dropping the first hole to Schwartzel, and was 2-down at one point in the match after six holes.

He went on to win the seventh with a bogey none-the-less, then squaring the match when he dropped a 5-footer for birdie on No. 9.

On the back nine, Bae didn't drop a shot to par. Closing out the reigning Masters Champion with a two-putt from 30-feet to close out the match.

Miguel Angel Jimenez got out quickly on Keegan Bradley in their match on day two.

The 'mechanic' won the first three holes and put Bradley in a hole early, in which he could not recover from.

The 2011 PGA Champion did manage to cut the deficit to one at one point in the match.

However, on No. 17, Bradley was unable to to get up and down to extend the match.

We have seen some incredible come backs and upsets so far through two days at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.

Day three should hold more of the same from the desert in Arizona.

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