ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates €" Tiger Woods' season-opening news conference lasted 30 minutes and included six different questions regarding Hank Haney's impending book €The Big Miss.€

The answer, more or less, remained the same. €Am I disappointed? Yes. Am I frustrated? Certainly,€ Woods said on Tuesday at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship. €I have to answer the questions. Hopefully this will be coming to an end.€

That, however, is probably wishful thinking. Haney's book is scheduled to be released just before the Masters and will be a talking point through the season's first major.

Woods was also asked if it was difficult, given his comments about Haney's book and Steve Williams' behavior last year, to trust people who are close to him.

€One might say that,€ Woods said.MEDINAH, Ill. €" Davis Love III has always been honest, even to a fault, when it comes to self assessment. He's always said that he has expected more out of his career than what he has already accomplished. And he has always said that winning one major championship is just not enough for a player of his ilk.

So it shouldn't have come as much of a surprise when Love responded candidly to a question posed to him after his second round in the 88th PGA Championship.

Davis Love III is in search of his second PGA Championship victory (1997).The question was, basically: If you were Tom Lehman, would you select yourself with a captain's pick.

The answer was: €To be honest with you, no, not right now. I think I'd need to give him a reason to pick me.€

Lehman might not need a reason, as Love might just take care of business himself.

Love followed his opening 4-under 68 with a 3-under 69 Friday to move within one of second-round leaders Henrik Stenson, Billy Andrade, Luke Donald and Tim Herron at Medinah Country Club.

He's currently 15th on the U.S. points list, 115 points behind No. 10 Brett Wetterich. A victory this week is worth 675 points. He needs to finish no worse than solo eighth to have any chance of qualifying for the team €" not that finishing eighth is on his agenda.

€I've backed myself into a corner. Sometimes you start doing the things you're supposed to be doing a little bit better when you're backed into a corner,€ he said.

€I'd love to go ahead and win this tournament and let him go pick somebody else.€

Lehman would like that as well.

His current team, which will be finalized after this event, is lacking for experience, with four possible first-timers currently inside the top 10. Love has played in every Ryder Cup since 1993.

The closest he came to missing one was in 1997, when he entered the PGA Championship outside the cut line. He then went out and won the PGA at Winged Foot.

Love is on the verge of a repeat performance this week; though, it didn't look good early Friday.

Unlike in the first round, when he was 7 under through 10 holes, Love got off to a horrible start in round 2. Despite a birdie at the 10th, his first hole of the day, he bogeyed his next three.

€It took me a little longer to get 3 over par,€ Love said, referencing his triple-bogey on the par-3 11th Thursday. €It took me three holes rather than one hole.

€It's unfortunate, but I'm playing very well and making a lot of birdies.€

That was evident over the remainder of his round, as he made five birdies and no bogeys. He has totaled 13 birdies through 36 holes.

Love hasn't won on TOUR since doing so three times in 2003. His best finish this year is a finals loss to Geoff Ogilvy in the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, which ranks as his only top-10 of the season.

After missing the cut last week at The International, he played a practice round here Monday. He was supposed to play just nine holes, but he was hitting the ball so poorly that nine turned into 13, and 13 turned into a full 18.