Woods makes up for slow start, trails by 5

Woods said he turned a so-so round into a good one better than he has since he shared 17 at the Masters, his best showing of the year.

“He played a couple of groups ahead of me and he had to deal with the wind delay like we did”. He swept all the major awards for the third consecutive year.

Meanwhile, Jordan Spieth will have another chance to take the world No. 1 ranking from Rory McIlroy after the Northern Irishman pulled out of next week’s World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club.

Tiger Woods bigger favorite than British Open champ Zach Johnson to win PGA Championship? He hasn’t won one since. Then he made a hole-in-one on the 180-yard fourth, spinning an 8-iron 15 feet back into the cup for his first competitive ace in the United States. He has had three scores of 80 or higher and has missed three cuts and withdrawn once in eight events. Can Rickie Fowler solve the roller coaster ride of his 2015 and win for the second time in 4 weeks?

Quicken Loans National, the tournament sponsors, are running a promotion with a difference for holes-in-one.

Woods had talked in his press conference about turning 74s into 70s. “No. 5 was a par 5, like a birdie hole, but it was kind of hard for me to make a par right there”.

Woods admitted in a pre-tournament news conference on Tuesday that the uptime to see some success with the Como-influenced swing has been longer than he initially expected.

“There’s nothing more exciting in sports than a hole-in-one, except the fact that through our sweepstakes, we are changing the lives of golf fans”, Quicken Loans CEO Bill Emerson said. After waiting out a 90-minute delay caused by storms, and then overcoming three bogeys in his first four holes, Woods lit up the scoreboards with red numbers on his way to a 68.

“This gives us an opportunity to bring the stars of our game to digital platforms, all of which is incremental and complimentary to our television products”, he says. “You can cover up a lot of different things when you’re chipping and putting well”.

Eight players, including defending champion Justin Rose of England, are tied for 10th at 66. But he didn’t make it look easy. But at the end of the day, if Woods’ game doesn’t fundamentally improve, it’s hard to imagine him ever being competitive on the same level again.

Landing short and left of the front hole location, Rickie’s ball navigated its way past the other two balls on the green (of playing partners Ben Crane and James Hahn) and found a cozy home- at the bottom of the 9th green’s cup.