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SPORTS Friday 27 January 2017

THIRTYSOMETHING

Tiger Woods reacts to the
crowd after saving par on the
fifth hole of the south course
during the first round of the
Farmers Insurance Open golf
tournament Thursday, Jan.
26, 2017, at Torrey Pines Golf
Course in San Diego.
Associated Press
Tiger returns

to PGA Tour

and tries to

tame Torrey

DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Tiger
Woods had a rough
return to the PGA Tour on
Thursday at the Farmers
Insurance Open.
A slow one, too.
Woods, playing in a PGA
Tour event for the first time
in 17 months, fell apart on
the back nine of the South
course at Torrey Pines. He
dropped six shots in a six-
hole stretch and finished
with a birdie for a 4-over
76. That put him 11 shots Roger Federer reaches Australian Open Finals
behind Justin Rose, who
had a 65 on the shorter
North Course.
Woods made his first
birdie on the 10th hole. Switzerland’s Roger Federer
He followed with another makes a backhand return to
compatriot Stan Wawrinka
one on the par-3 11th to during their semifinal at
get under par. And it was the Australian Open tennis
all downhill from there. The championships in Melbourne,
big blow was on the 15th, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 26,
when he snap-hooked his 2017. Associated Press
drive over the gallery and Page 19
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