ATLANTA — The crowd at the Tour Championship’s opening round on Thursday was the largest and loudest it had been since 2013, which was the last time Tiger Woods played in
the event.
That was no coincidence.
Woods played one of his best rounds of the year in his return to the FedEx Cup playoff finale and caused the biggest cheer of the day by making an eagle putt from just over 25 feet on the par-5 18th for a five-under-par 65 and a share of the lead with Rickie Fowler.
It was the second time in two FedEx Cup playoff events that Woods had tied for the 18-hole lead. He shot an eight-under 62 two weeks ago at Aronimink in the opening round of the BMW Championship on a rain-soaked course that allowed just about everyone to go low.
“This was by far better than the 62 at Aronimink,” Woods said of Thursday’s round on the dry, tougher East Lake course. “Conditions were soft there. This, it’s hard to get the ball closer. If you drive the ball in the rough, you know you can’t get the ball close. You just can’t
control it.”
Until this month, Woods had not been in the lead after any round of a tournament since the second day of the 2015 Wyndham Championship, where he finished tied for 10th.
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