Tiger Woods Near Top Of Field At Wyndham
Published on August 21 2015 6:43 am
Last Updated on August 21 2015 6:43 am
Tiger Woods shot his lowest round in more than two years, a 6-under-par 64 that put him near the top of the leaderboard Thursday after the first round of the Wyndham Championship.
Woods, making his first start in the tournament at Sedgefield Country Club, had seven birdies and a bogey on the 7,127-yard, par-70 course. It was his best score since shooting a second-round 61 in August 2013 at Firestone Country Club during the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. That was the site of Woods' 79th and most recent PGA Tour victory.
Woods trailed leaders Erik Compton, William McGirt and Tom Hoge, who each shot 62. Morgan Hoffmann, Jim Herman and Derek Ernst followed at 63, and Martin Kaymer, Davis Love III and Carl Pettersson joined Woods at 64.
Making a last-ditch effort to qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs, Woods entered the Wyndham needing no worse than a solo second to have a shot at qualifying for next week's Barclays, which takes the top 125 on the points list. Woods is 187th.
