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Tiger Woods cards lowest PGA Tour round of season with 66

Former world number one closes out first round at Greenbrier Classic with three straight birdies

Tiger Woods takes his second shot on the 17th hole during the first round of the Greenbrier Classic at the Old White TPC in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Photo: Darren Carroll/Getty Images
Tiger Woods takes his second shot on the 17th hole during the first round of the Greenbrier Classic at the Old White TPC in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Photo: Darren Carroll/Getty Images
Fri Jul 03 2015 - 09:43

Tiger Woods capped his lowest PGA Tour round of the season with a trio of birdies to leave him four shots off the early lead at the Greenbrier Classic in West Virginia on Thursday.

Woods, who has struggled for form all season, mixed seven birdies with a bogey and double-bogey for an opening-round four-under 66 on Greenbrier’s Old White Course in White Sulphur Springs.

Coming off a missed cut at last month's US Open, Woods hit 10 of 14 fairways and needed only 25 putts to sit four shots back of clubhouse leader Scott Langley.

The former world number one, who started on the back nine, got off to a fast start with birdies on three of his first seven holes before giving a stroke back on his eighth hole of the day, the par-five 17th, to make the turn at two under.

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He grabbed another stroke at the par-four second hole and looked to be heading home smoothly until running into trouble at the par-four sixth where he left his approach in the bunker and went on to card a double-bogey.

But Woods responded in splendid fashion with birdies on the next three holes.

Scott Langley took the clubhouse lead on eight under after a brilliant 62 around the par-70 layout. The 26-year-old American carded an error-free round, making four birdies on each nine to lead by one shot from Jonathan Byrd.