Miami ? Phil Mickelson was atop the leaderboard for the ninth consecutive round in stroke play, and no one was terribly surprised — least of all, the guy chasing him Friday in the Ford Championship at Doral.

Mickelson showed up at Doral nearly five hours before his tee time to fine-tune a game that appears to need no work, then played the Blue Monster without a bogey for a 6-under 66 that gave him a two-shot lead over Billy Andrade.

Phil Mickelson watches his tee shot on the fifth hole. Mickelson shot a 66 Friday in Miami to take a two-shot lead in the Ford Championship at Doral.

“I don’t know what the big hoopla about him is,” Andrade said after a 66. “He’s one of the best players in the world. He has been one of the best players in the world since he was 12. When you get guys that are that talented and you get on rolls, they’re obviously tough to beat.”

Mickelson is clearly on a roll in the second round, when his average score is 64.8 in five tournaments. That includes a 60 in Phoenix, which gave him a share of the lead. He’s been there ever since, including a wire-to-wire victory last month at Pebble Beach.

“The only thing that matters is leading on Sunday,” said Mickelson, whose 14-under 130 total was one short of the 36-hole record at Doral. “That’s kind of the goal right now.”

But Mickelson was the first to concede that this tournament is far from over. There are a bevy of world-class players on the Blue Monster, and several of them remain in range.

Two-time Masters champion Jose Maria Olazabal had a 69 and was at 11-under 133, while Billy Mayfair birdied three of the last four holes for a 67 and was another shot back.

Tiger Woods went eight consecutive holes without a par — that included three straight bogeys for the second time this year — for a 2-under 70 that put him in a pack of players at 9-under 135 that included No. 1 Vijay Singh, David Toms and defending champion Craig Parry.