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Tiger Woods makes flying start at Zozo Championship

Tiger Woods has hit the lowest opening round of his career to take a share of the lead on day one...



Tiger Woods makes flying start...
Golf

Tiger Woods makes flying start at Zozo Championship

Tiger Woods has hit the lowest opening round of his career to take a share of the lead on day one of golf's  Zozo Championship in Japan.

He's tied with fellow American Gary Woodland on 6-under-par - one shot clear of the rest of the field.

Woods says things started going his way after a difficult start:

"I was just trying to turn it to even par at the turn, that's basically my goal, and I was able to squeeze one more out of it and lo and behold I had the easier side I'm going to and hopefully I can squeeze a couple more out of it and I did a couple more better than that, which was nice," Woods told the Golf Channel.

"It's always nice to get off to a quick start and then figure it out from there, but that start I got off to wasn't very good.

"I hit bad shot after bad shot after bad shot and then a three-wiggle (three-putt) at 12 and next thing you knew things aren't looking very good.

"After the start the ball-striking was better, the putting was really good. It was one of the stranger rounds I've experienced in a while. It seems like every putt I made, other than the one at seven, was left to right. It was crazy."

Open champion Shane Lowry is one-over after his first round, Rory McIlroy two-over and Graeme McDowell is 11-over-par.

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