Woods finds form in Greensboro

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Tiger Woods roared back to form with a sparkling first round at the Wyndham Championship on Thursday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The former world number one needs to win this week to reach the end-of-season FedExCup Play-offs and a six-under-par 64 was ideal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It put him in the mix near the top of the leaderboard and came on the back of the 39-year-old slumping to a career low last weekend when he missed the cut at the US PGA Championship&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Woods has missed the cut at the last three majors&comma; and has had to bat away talk that he is finished as a contender for big titles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Starting on the back nine&comma; in his first visit to the tournament&comma; he followed an opening chip-in birdie with a dropped shot at the 11th&period; But from there 14-time major winner Woods rolled back the years&comma; making gains at the 13th&comma; 15th&comma; 18th&comma; first&comma; fourth and fifth holes to surge into contention&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Asked whether his biggest strength over the round was his putting or iron play&comma; Woods said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They were both solid today&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They were solid&period; It was nice&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I was telling Joey &lpar;caddie Joe LaCava&rpar; it’s finally nice to get something out of a round&comma; a round that could have been two to four under par&comma; it’s finally six&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Woods was given warm backing at the tournament&comma; staged at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro&comma; North Carolina&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It was electric&comma; especially early&comma;” he told PGA Tour Live&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The people have been fantastic&comma; so nice and so supportive&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>”His fellow Americans William McGirt&comma; Erik Compton and Tom Hoge shared the lead on eight under par after signing for 62&comma; with Jim Herman&comma; Derek Ernst and Morgan Hoffman all seven under&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Compton&comma; like Woods&comma; began his round on the back nine and reached the turn in a steady one under par&period;But he played a stellar second nine in seven-under 28&comma; making birdie at the ninth to join McGirt in a share of first place&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Woods is in a share of seventh position alongside Germany’s Martin Kaymer&comma; Swede Carl Pettersson and Davis Love III&period; However&comma; anything substantially under par was a positive result for Woods&comma; 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