Tiger In Teal! Opens With Wyndham 64

You have to really love the game to have logged into the early round streaming of the Wyndham Championship, but if you did there was a reward: Tiger posting a 64 and doing it with more aggressive approach than many expected for Sedgefield CC.

From Rex Hoggard's GolfChannel.com story:

Although many applauded Woods’ decision to play the Wyndham Championship for the first time, opining the relatively short Sedgefield layout (7,127 yards) would allow him to play away from his driver and focus on position, his game plan on Thursday suggested otherwise.

Woods hit driver five times in Round 1, finding the fairway on three of those occasions, the most impressive of which was a bomb down the middle of the par-5 15th fairway to set up a two-putt par.

And the low round was still three off a 61 two years ago, but nonethless an encouraging sign.

From Bob Harig's ESPN.com story:

It was his best score since shooting a second-round 61 in August 2013 at Firestone Country Club during the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational.

Woods hit seven of 14 fairways (going 5 under on those holes), 14 of 18 greens and needed just 26 putts.

Luke Kerr-Dineen of For The Win posts the various tweeted highlights and notes the teal hat Tiger sported in round one, which struck me perhaps as a belated homage to the old Florida Marlins colors.

Joel Beall at the sharply redesigned GolfDigest.com says the printing presses have been running in Greensboro thanks to Tiger's decision to play.