Defending champion Vijay Singh fired a five-under 65 to take the lead after the second round of the USPGA Arnold Palmer Invitational event at the Bay Hill course.
The Fijian-Indian reached nine-under 131 and has a two-stroke lead over Sweden's Carl Pettersson.
"I hit the ball really good off the tee, gave myself a lot of birdie chances and also helped by chipping in twice as well," the 45-year-old Singh said. "I'm not doing anything special, not doing too much wrong either, just cruising along."
Singh, who is recovering from a bout of food poisoning, is three shots in front of England's Lee Westwood (68) and Americans Jim Furyk (67) and Ken Duke (67).
World No. 1 Tiger Woods, seeking to win his sixth consecutive official start, did not help his cause with a 70 that left him seven strokes behind.
"I'll have to play better and make a lot more putts," Woods said. "I never got the speed of these things today, kept leaving them short.
"I wasn't swinging the club very well [either] and when I did put myself in position to make a putt, I didn't make them," he said.
Singh says he got a "stomach virus" at the Johnnie Walker Classic recently in India.
"I tried to eat clean and drink bottled water and it didn't work," he said. "I came back on Monday and never left the bathroom for four days. It's not nice but I got over it."
Singh said he was so dehydrated at one stage that he went to hospital, where he hooked up to an intravenous drip.
"I thought I was going to pull out of this tournament but on Friday I started to [feel a little better]," Singh said.
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