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mere formality.
• After Brandt Snedeker romped to another bogey-free round, with Adam Scott right on his heels, Woods provided the most memorable moment of Friday's second round just as the light was beginning to fade at Royal Lytham & St. Annes.
• He set it up by dumping his approach at No. 18 into a greenside trap. Then, with everyone figuring he'd settle for no better than par, Woods swooped the ball just over the lip of the bunker, up onto the green, where it bounced a couple of times and rolled right in the cup for a birdie.
• Woods let out a scream and thrust his fist skyward, having closed within four strokes of Snedeker's 36-hole score heading to the weekend.
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• Today is Saturday, July 21, the 203rd day of 2012. There are 163 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On July 21, 1925, the so-called "Monkey Trial" ended in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution. (The conviction was later overturned on a technicality.)
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• On this date:
• In 1773, Pope Clement XIV issued an order suppressing the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits. (The Society was restored by Pope Pius VII in 1814.)
• In 1796, Scottish poet Robert Burns died in Dumfries at age 37.
• In 1861, during the Civil War, the first Battle of Bull Run was fought at Manassas, Va., resulting in a Confederate victory.
• In 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed an executive order establishing the Veterans Administration (later the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs).
• In 1944, American forces landed on Guam during World War II.
• In 1949, the U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty.
• In 1952, the Democratic National Convention, which would nominate Adlai Stevenson for president, opened in Chicago.
• In 1959, the NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered merchant ship, was christened by first lady Mamie Eisenhower at Camden, N.J.

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