Greenbrier Classic Round 1

Heavy rains stopped play for 18 minutes in the morning.

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. >> Tiger Woods has rebounded from a dismal USA Open with a 4-under-par 66 in the opening round of The Greenbrier Classic.

Seven golfers – Chad Collins, Bryce Molder, Danny Lee, Kevin Chappell, Greg Owen, David Hearn and Jonathan Byrd – sit one stroke behind Langley and Vegas after enjoying successful second rounds. He hasn’t won since his rookie season in 2011.

Langley was unable to match the eight birdies he made during his superb round of 62 on Thursday as he recorded a birdie on the 17th and a bogey on the 15th on his front nine. Approaches lacked the correct distance, and Woods couldn’t buy a putt with Jim Justice’s money before finally rolling in a 6-foot birdie try on the home hole – his longest make of the day.

Last month, Woods missed the cut in a major championship for the fifth time as a professional.

Tiger Woods (69) was tied for 26th at 5 under. Langley was four strokes behind eventual victor Bubba Watson entering weekend play, and Vegas was six back. “I was telling [caddie] Joey [LaCava] going down 7, ‘We’re just playing too well to be at 1-under par.’ And just trying to get back to 3”.

He stood at four under at the halfway stage, level with Spain’s Rafa Cabrera-Bello, who came in earlier with a 70 and ex- world number one and French Open champion in 2009, Martin Kaymer of Germany who had a 69.

A crowded leaderboard has 27 players within four shots of the lead. His second shot hit the tree and the ball ricocheted into a bunker.

Two weeks after his finish at the USA Open fell just short of catching Spieth, Oosthuizen was eager to get in some fishing at The Greenbrier and take his wife to the tournament’s concerts featuring Keith Urban, The Band Perry, Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton. “I just haven’t been able to put it all together”.

However, there were signs that Woods could be finding his stride once more in a round of four-under 66 which included seven birdies, one bogey and a double-bogey.

“Oh yeah, I love it”, Oosthuizen said. “I kind of looked at myself in the mirror and said, you know, at the end of the day, I need to be the most positive guy in the field week in and week out”.

On the par-5 17th, where he had driven into water to the right in the first two rounds, his drive went 190 yards far to the left of the fairway and he made another bogey.