The error resulted in the sole blemish of his round but he finally got a putt down at the ninth and came home in four-under-par, the highlight of his back nine a 20-ft chip-in for birdie from the rough above a greenside bunker at the 16th.
“Today got off to a good start and I birdied the very first hole,” Woods told reporters. “But after that, I didn’t really make any putts. I had certainly some looks at them and didn’t really capitalise on anything.
