Ian Poulter charges into Phoenix Open contention with a 63

Published: 11:45PM GMT twenty-six February 2010

ack to form: Ian Poulter put a unsatisfactory initial turn at the behind of him to post a 63 in the second turn in Phoenix Photo: GETTY IMAGES

Poulter, who won the WGC-Accenture Matchplay Championship last Sunday, bounced behind from a unsatisfactory first-round 72 by sharpened an eight-under-par 63. His early turn together with eight birdies and he finished the initial 9 holes in only thirty shots.

Poulter capped his turn by holing a 13-foot birdie to finish 7 underneath overall.

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He had tweeted after his initial round: "May have been a inapplicable designation to fool around this week, the tank was empty."

One shot behind, on 6 underneath for 36 holes, was Phil Mickelson, who finished his second 68 between the early finishers.

First-round personality Camilo Villegas dismissed a contest record-equalling 62 on Thursday.

Villegas bounced behind from his beating at the Matchplay Championship.

The 28-year-old Colombian, who longed for a three-foot putt that would have put him in the Matchplay last last weekend, equalled the tournaments first-round jot down for a one-shot lead over American Matt Every, a former University team-mate.

Englands Justin Rose, Mark Wilson, Japans Ryuji Imada, Rickie Fowler and Pat Perez were 3 strokes adrift, on 65, in glorious conditions.

Villegas teed off on 10 and capped his turn by chipping in from twenty-one feet on the par-four ninth for his ninth birdie.

The Colombian, who won twice on the PGA Tour in 2008, put his clever begin to this deteriorate down to a some-more loose proceed to the game.

"I was removing a small as well endangered with my universe ranking on all sides and income list and this and that," Villegas said, "and I only got a small parsimonious on the golf course. So I indispensable to put all those things in reserve and recollect that Im personification golf for a living, and theres a million people out there that would love to be in my shoes."

Part of that is being means to shrug off a longed for putt similar to the one that saw him tumble to Paul Casey in the Matchplay semi-finals.

Every, who warranted his debate label by winning last years Nationwide Tour Championship, additionally had a bogey-free round.