Tiger Woods opens The Beginning Invitational at 72 and manages back fits

Nobody is safe from the feared knife. Not even Tiger Woods.

Subsequent to parting the fairway at the standard 4 eighteenth in the initial round of The Beginning Invitational, standing even-standard for the afternoon, Woods holed his methodology from 176 yards, the ball strongly cruising toward the right timberline. Woods promptly dropped the club despite his good faith in dismay; the ball progressed only 71 yards, leaving a 109-yard way to deal with the green. Woods was passed on to put his hands on his hips, gazing vacantly ahead for a couple of moments prior to refocusing to hit his third shot from the timberline to 15 feet, prompting a two-putt intruder.

Woods opened in more than 72 at The Riviera Nation Club, eight years after the birth of early pioneer Patrick Cantlay.

My back spasmed on it," Woods said of his knife on No. 18. "It's been spasming the last three openings, and it just secured on me. I didn't move, didn't turn, and introduced Hosel first."

When did he last hit a knife from such a position? "It's been some time," he said. "It has certainly been some time. Other than attempting to hit flop shots and different sorts of bizarre shots around the greens, not from the position I was at."

The beginning denoted Woods' most memorable visit since pulling out of last year's Lords during the third round; he went through a lower leg medical procedure presently. Woods got back to rivalry at the Legend World Test in December, setting eighteenth in the 20-player field, then, at that point, cooperated with child Charlie at the PNC Title fourteen days after the fact.

In the wake of finishing The Legend, Woods declared his aim to play about one visit occasion a month this season, and his beginning at The Beginning shows he is in good shape. Woods' lower leg hoped to hold up fine Thursday, and he had a lot of speed (averaging 304.1 yards off the tee), yet intrinsic serious rust maybe kept him away from going low on a day where Riviera was gettable (Cantlay took the early clubhouse lead at 7-under 64). Woods hit eight of 14 fairways, 10 of 18 greens, and took 30 putts in the initial round.

"It's difficult to plan for," Woods said of getting back to rivalry after an extended cutback. "I depend on such a huge amount of experience and having done this quite a while, yet at the same time, having the adrenaline dump in the framework, the ball goes further, speed goes up, and only the yardages are somewhat unique in relation to being at home. It's simply unique, and that is only a piece of playing cutthroat golf."

The best 50 players and ties will make the 36-opening cut at The Beginning, a Mark Occasion, notwithstanding any players inside 10 shots of the lead after the subsequent round.

Woods opened Thursday with an all-over birdie from perfectly off the green on the standard 5 first, depleting a 4-footer; however, he followed with consecutive intruders on Nos. 2 and 3. He bounced back with birdies at both of the front nine's standard 3s, depleting a 15-footer at No. 4 and a 14-footer at No. 6, and he followed with three straight standards to turn in 1-under 34.

The Los Angeles-region local found inconvenience at the short standard of 4-tenth; his tee shot tracked down the back greenside shelter, 30 feet from the opening, and he had to play out on a level plane. He chipped to 8 feet yet couldn't change over, taking a baffling intruder. Woods, 48, bounced back with a 15-foot birdie at the standard 5 eleventh from simply off the green; however, he came up short at Nos. 12 and 15 to move over standard for the afternoon.

Woods arrived at the green in two at the 609-yard standard 5 seventeenth and two-putted for birdie, moving back to try and standard. In any case, his difficulty on 18 wrecked a generally strong conclusion to the day at Riviera.

"We have some treatment in front of us and work to do to be prepared for later," Woods said. "That is simply an aspect of the arrangement; anticipate the test."