Love focusing on task at hand

Davis Love III only has two weeks left to earn a spot in the Masters but said he was trying not not to think about it yesterday after he shot a 6-under-par 66 to gain a share of the lead with J.B. Holmes in the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando, Fla.

Love chipped in twice during a five-hole stretch and finished strong with a 45-foot birdie and an 8-foot par putt in bolstering his chances to return to Augusta National for the first time since 2007. If he doesn't win this week, he has to win next week in the Houston Open to earn his way into the first major of 2010. In five starts this season, he's only made one cut, the Sony Open in Hawaii where he finished tied for fifth.

“It’s always in the back of your mind -- or the front of your mind,” Love said. “After a few weeks where I played kind of poorly … I was just mentally kind of frazzled. I just said, ‘You’re going to have to just to play the ones you get in and do the best job you can and quit worrying about everything else,'" Love said.

Love, who has made more than $39 million during his PGA Tour career, has never won at Bay Hill. He finished a shot out of a playoff in 1999, then was runner-up to Tiger Woods a year later. Woods is not playing Bay Hill, where is the two-time defending champion, for the first time in his PGA Tour career. He will play for the first time since his sex scandal in two weeks at the Masters.

Woods announced Wednesday that he will talk to the media as a whole at the Masters, but will not do so on Tuesday, which he had traditionally done in the past. Instead, Woods will be the sole interview subject in the Augusta National media center Monday, April 5, with his press conference scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. Woods spoke Sunday to ESPN and the Golf Channel in a pair of five-minute interviews, his first with members of the media since his scandal emerged last November.

Information from the Associated Press, Golf Channel contributed to this post.