East Lothian, Scotland (Sports Network) – Three-time champion Tiger Woods carded a 2-under 69 on Thursday to end his first round three strokes off the lead at the British Open Championship.<\/p>\n
Woods, who overcame a poor tee shot at the first, mixed five birdies and three bogeys in his round.<\/p>\n
The 14-time major champion pulled his drive into the thick left rough off the first tee. He took an unplayable lie penalty and scrambled to a bogey. He narrowly missed a birdie at two, but did birdie the fourth to get back to even-par for his round.<\/p>\n
Woods stumbled to another bogey at the sixth. After three straight pars, he converted back-to-back birdie chances at 10 and 11. Woods moved to 2-under with a birdie at the 13th.<\/p>\n
However, he 3-putted for bogey on the 14th to drop a shot. Woods 2-putted for birdie on the par-5 17th and parred the last for one of the best rounds of the afternoon.<\/p>\n
“Some of these pin locations with the greens drying out the way they were, they were really tough to get the ball close,” said Woods in a televised interview. “It was frightening how fast the greens got. With it drying out, I can see that it was fine in the morning, but by the time we got through there in the afternoon, it just continued to dry out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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