A
second round 5-over-par 76, which ended with a carelessly missed nine-inch putt,
left Olazábal on 6-over-par 148, 16 shots behind new leader Greg Turner of
New Zealand.
The Augusta champion's
card included two double-bogeys on the front nine, one after he hit a drive into
trouble on the fourth and another by finding the lake at the short eighth.
"My game is no
good, it's as simple as that," said Olazábal, who insisted tiredness was
not the reason for his second missed cut in three weeks and his fourth this season.
"I
was very poor from tee to green, very disappointing after the way I finished last
week. My driving wasn't good and my irons very poor.
"I've missed four
cuts already and that is not like me. I normally might not miss four all season.
But I suppose I will take some missed cuts now and then if I can manage to get
another major."
Olazábal,
with a 66 last Sunday in Italy, felt he had got his game back and was mystified
by his return to poor form.
Ballesteros shot
67 in the final round in Italy. But he had a 77 on the first day here, and a 68
in the second round could not save him as he missed the cut by three shots on
145.
While a poor putting round on Thursday caused Ballesteros his woeful start, a
double-bogey at the short fifth in the second round, when he took two to get out
of a plugged lie in a bunker, ended his chance of a revival.
Leader Turner fired
a 65 after being brought off for a 50-minute lightning stoppage with only three
holes of his round played.
That moved him
to 10 under, a stroke ahead of England's Andrew Sherborne, who carded a 67 in
morning rain, and Frenchman Marc Farry, who also had to come in for the suspension
before going on to a 63, the best round so far.
South Africa's
Retief Goosen and another Frenchman, Jeff Remesy, are joint fourth, a further
stroke back.
Turner rattled in a 30-foot
putt to take a share of the lead and edged in front with a sixth birdie on his
penultimate hole.
Success for the
36-year-old New Zealander has previously often come at the end of the year.
His fourth European
Tour win came in the 1997 British Masters in September and last September he finished
second in the Lancome Trophy to clinch a President's Cup wild card.
"It's not really
that I play better late in the season," Turner said. "More the fact that everyone
else is dying at that time after a long year.
"I had a long year
myself last year because I was trying to get into the President's Cup side, so
I was tired too.
"But now I'm fresh.
This is only my third event of the year, and I've not had a bogey in two days."
Turner and Frank Nobilo beat Mark O'Meara and Fred Couples in the opening pairs
match of the President's Cup last December to set up an overwhelming nine-point
victory for the International team over America.
