Ross Fisher was five shots clear of defending champion and World No. 1 Tiger Woods at the midway stage of the Dubai Desert Classic golf tournament here.Come Sunday and there is a possibility that 26-year-old Fisher, who used to pick golf balls for Woods at practice ranges in 1998, may play in the same group as the ace professional.Fisher, whose best on the European Tour is a tied-fourth place in the 2005 Volvo China Open, is now sitting at 14-under after two rounds of 65 each, with just two bogeys in 36 holes and both coming at the sixth hole on both days.When play stopped today for an hour and quarter due to rain and lightning, he was four shots ahead of Graeme Mcdowell (69) and Peter Hanson (65) at 10-under for 36 holes. Ernie Els was also 10-under but he had eight more holes to play.India’s Jyoti Randhawa was seven-under after six holes in second round. He was one-under for the day. Harmeet Kahlon fired a 73 and was two-under for 36 holes, while Jeev Milkha Singh was also two-under but had nine more holes to play. The cut looks likely at two-under.About his possible face-off with Woods, Fisher said: “Obviously I’ll have to cross that bridge if it happens. It would be an absolute thrill to play with the best player in the world. He has been the best player in the world for it seems like an eternity. What’s it been, eight or nine years now almost.”Fisher knows Woods’ group will always attract big crowds and is prepared to meet that pressure. “If I am drawn with Tiger, crowds are going to be absolutely enormous. But at the end of the day, it’s the same for him as it is for me. Obviously all of the pressure is going to be on him because he’s expected to win. No one’s really going to be thinking, well, I think Ross can take this guy on.“So it almost, I would say work to my advantage. I can just, you know, try to almost block him out and sort of shake hands with him on the first tee, try not to watch him too closely because at the end of the day, I’m going to try to beat the guy,” he said.
