Tiger Woods took the lead in Rd 2 – and nearly broke the internet!

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After an opening-round one-under 70 that featured some electrifying, vintage Tiger Woods moments at the Valspar Championship, it was still difficult to claim Woods was “back”, like “back-back”. Yes, we beat that phrase into the ground, but with the flashes of brilliance he’s shown during the early stages of this comeback, it’s hard not to.

On Friday, the “Is he back?” game officially reached its peak, as Woods mounted a second-round charge that launched him into the solo lead on the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook.

Naturally, this sent Golf Twitter into DEFCON 1 mode, effectively burning itself to the ground before Woods reached the clubhouse. Things were getting interesting when he made the turn in two-under 33, but things got REALLY interesting when he added birdies at the par-4 second and par-5 fourth, putting him alone atop the board. It got so out of control that in addition to Twitter breaking, PGA Tour Live damn near exploded:

The Tiger effect is real.

Hopefully, all of your respective US PGA Tour Live streams began working again. If so, you likely heard one of the commentators redeem the technical difficulty problem by dropping the phrase of the year, referring to Woods’ driver as the “smoke wagon”:

https://twitter.com/MrTempletonPeck/status/972147859066933248

Smoke Wagon T-Shirts being printed as we speak. Even Dan Patrick is on board:

But the birth of #SMOKEWAGON was just the beginning of an epic day for golf fans who frequent social media. Here’s a sampling of some of the best Tiger-related tweets from fans, media and even fellow players:

https://twitter.com/bet365/status/972150673616842753

https://twitter.com/DodoMolinari/status/972159091886845952

https://twitter.com/z_blair/status/972114008613445632