Tiger Woods confident of form upturn in Quicken Loans National

Stealing the headlines from Woods on day one in Virginia were Ryo Ishikawa, the co-leader, and Rickie Fowler, after the pair both had hole-in-ones. They live on different edges of separate continents, with the 46-year-old Goosen, from South Africa, twice as old as the 23-year-old Ishikawa, who hails from Japan.

It matched his best score of the year, a four-under 66 in the opening round of the Greenbrier Classic earlier this month, but was the lowest with regard to par during his 2015 campaign. I missed cuts. I haven’t done much in the last couple of years and so I haven’t played a whole lot of golf in the last couple years. “I’ve had chances to make those runs and I just haven’t done it”. “It was nice to actually turn it around”.

Woods said after his latest disappointing finish in a major that his “spin rates” were off. But he didn’t touch a club for a week after St. Andrews, instead going diving with his children in the Bahamas. I played it in ’93 and finished third in the U.S. Open. “Everything is being torn up”.

Being able to make in-round adjustments-or just not losing confidence after a bad start-is a huge step for Woods. “Got me a little fired up”, Woods said. “This is the generation that grew up watching me play and win tournaments, and the guys that I used to play practice rounds with are all gone”. Also won The Players this year.

Top-ranked Inbee Park shot 69, with three of her five birdies coming in her last five holes. No matter – he still pull-hooked it into the gallery, hit his second shot into a greenside bunker and lipped out a 5-footer for par before slamming his putter against his bag.

He bogeyed the final hole to sit three adrift on five under and alongside compatriot Greg Owens. On the first hole, he laid back with a 3-wood before hitting 9-iron to 5 feet for another birdie.

However, Woods’ short game was just one part of the bigger picture.

But the 14-time major victor fought back picking up shots on holes five and eight, really shifting up a gear heading for the turn. “Feel like my putting has been good”. He slammed his driver to the turf as the ball traveled only 161 yards and failed to reach the fairway.

The fourth-ranked Kim, who shot a first-round 61 in winning the Evian Championship on her major championship debut last year, led by a stroke over Lydia Ko of New Zealand and Cristie Kerr of the United States.

Woods got a fortunate deflection off a marshal left of the green on the par-5 fifth. Wheatcroft shot a bogey-free round and carded three birdies on the front 9 and three more on the back 9. “No, it hasn’t because I’m not scoring obviously”. Anderson believes the exclusive confident of marquee groups and the Thursday and Friday morning telecasts “has strong potential to build fan interest and viewership for our traditional television coverage”, he says. We got the fresh greens (with a morning tee time) tomorrow.