Woods Debuts With 65 at Barclays
Newly divorced and world champion Tiger Woods began his Barclays tour shooting 65 in the first round on Thursday, being also his best of the season. “It feels good to be able to control my ball all day like this,” the American golfer said. Woods looked also confident about breaking Jack Nicklaus record of 18 titles in his entire career. “I look at it this way. Hogan won all nine of his majors at my age and older. I think for every kid out there, the goal is to get there. That is the benchmark in our sport, and that’s still my goal,” Woods added.
“With fresh greens, everybody in our group was making putts on the front nine. You had to get it today.” Woods missed three of the greens regulation despite one of these left the golfer 12-foot birdie putt from the range. “I can’t really say that’s the case. s far as golf, it was nice to put it together.” Taylor claimed that is a good thing Tiger Woods came back on the leaderboard. “It’s good to see him back up top,” this said of the American whose second lowest shoot dates from the last year, when Woods shoot 62 at the BMW championship. With the ball in hand, it’s much more important to hit the fairways. It was a really good shot. It was a sweet shot. Woods also succeeded in hitting a baby cut with his driver that landed pin-high and settled 15 feet away with no wind on the 291-yard fifth hole.
On the other hand, the other drive came on the 18th, Woods hitting more than 300 yards and right in the middle of the fairway. “It was just a low, bullet fade right around the corner. It was just the shape of the shot, because it was different than most of the 3-woods I played all day. I didn’t hold a single 3-wood. I was turning them over. Now, the shape of the driver in the complete opposite direction … and I hadn’t hit a driver since the fifth hole,” this also said.11
