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Woods wayward but still in touch

June 16, 2007 00:00:00


Tiger Woods struggled off the tee but showed his usual skills around the greens to finish well placed on one over after the US Open's first round, reports BBC.
The world number one started his Oakmont challenge by driving into a bunker and bogeying the 1st.
He then birdied the second and sixth to get under par but more inaccuracy off the tee led to bogeys at eight, 10 and 12.
The 31-year-old American got a shot back at the short par-four 17th and seemed relatively happy with his 71.
"I felt pretty good - and hit it consistently all day," he said. "It was conservative but that is the way you have to play US Opens.
"It's right there - three, four, five over par, you're still in the tournament. You've got to hang in there.
"This golf course is hard. It's hard to make birdies and it's easy to make bogeys and doubles.
"Nobody's taking it to the golf course. This was as easy as it's going to play, and look what happened."
That said, the 12-time major winner's play up the last summed up his day at the tricky Pittsburgh course. He smashed his driver into the rough, hacked his ball forward into more rough short of the raised green but got up-and-down beautifully to save his par.
Playing alongside Woods was defending champion Geoff Ogilvy, and the Australian matched the 2000 and 2002 US Open champion's opening effort.

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