Woods plays his best round of the year
In his first tournament since his divorce, Tiger Woods finally looked like the No. 1 player in the world Thursday at the Barclays in Paramus, N.J., when he opened with a 6-under 65, his lowest score of the year, to share the lead with Vaughn Taylor.
It was his first time leading after any round on the PGA Tour since the Tour Championship last September.
Woods and Taylor both played in the morning, when the greens were smooth and the conditions were only breezy. They had a 1-shot lead over Adam Scott, Brian Gay and Ryan Palmer. Scott played in the afternoon, where a gust of wind played tricks on him at the final hole and led to bogey.
"It feels good to be able to control my ball all day like this," Woods said. If he keeps the lead, it would be the first time he would be in such position after any round since his Australian Masters victory at the end of last year, and the first time on the PGA Tour since the second round of the Tour Championship last year.
The last time Woods' was atop the leaderboard after any round of any tournament was when he won the Australian Masters on Nov. 15, less than two weeks after his life caved in on him - the car crash after Thanksgiving night, details of adultery, five months away from the game and a broken marriage, which officially ended Monday.
Canadian Women's Open: Michelle Wie had the second hole-in-one of her professional career on the way to a 7-under 65 and a 3-shot lead after the first round of the CN Canadian Women's Open in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The 6-foot-tall Wie says she's notched eight holes-in-one in her career, but only one other as a pro, in her rookie season at last year's LPGA Championship. This on came on the 190-yard, par-3 11th hole.
U.S. Amateur: Reigning NCAA champ Scott Langley needed extra holes for a second straight day to advance to the round of 16 at the U.S. Amateur in University Place, Wash. Langley beat Augusta State's Patrick Reed in 19 holes morning at breezy Chambers Bay. A day earlier, Langley knocked off Tim Jackson in 19 holes in the first round of match play.