Tiger Woods roared back to form with a sparkling first round at the Wyndham Championship on Thursday. 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. 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.
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Golf Essentials
- WORLD RANKINGS, plus Race to Dubai, FedEx Cup, U.S. Money List standings for 2015 Keep up to date with the latest key stats, rankings and money lists
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- Long drive champion Joe Miller destroys a watermelon (and Wentworth's famous par-fives!) Rory McIlroy is long... but you've seen nothing yet!
- Bubba sinks a monster putt playing a crazy golf hole... backwards! Is this shot even more miraculous than the one Bubba Watson hit to win his first Masters?
- Li hits 20 drives in a row without pausing aged just EIGHT (no wonder she'll be youngest ever player at US Open) Prodigious golf talent
- Wild Thing! Watch golf bad boy John Daly drive a ball out of blonde model's MOUTH Crazy and dangerous stunt from two-time major champion
- Scott masterclass - hitting it right off the tee The first thing on the list to tick off on any hole is getting it right off the tee - Adam Scott explains his approach
- Scott masterclass - tips on getting out of a greenside bunker Bunkers scare the life out of amateur golfers but Aussie Adam Scott is here to help
- Scott masterclass - how to chip out of rough Instead of facing a birdie putt you're left with a tricky chip from the rough beside then green. What would Adam Scott do?
- Scott masterclass - Aussie on how to putt Former Masters champion Adam Scott delivers his tips on how to lower your scores on the greens
- Beau-tee and the beast! Playboy model sues after golf stunt goes wrong and leaves her with horrific injury in a very painful place! Ouch!
- England stars Farrell, Foden and Marler take on trick shot challenge... so who could not even hit the ball off the (very high) tee? Wentworth skills test
- Woods is back in the record books after sinking stunning 91-foot putt at Doral... ... but it still doesn't beat Terry Wogan's famous 100-footer!
- Watch Stenson suffer the ultimate golfing embarrassment at Doral: a cold SHANK! Henrik Stenson suffered the worst sight in all of golf at the WGC-Cadillac
- Watch touches of genius by 'Golden Hands' Dubuisson that have stupefied golf's short-game greats Have you ever seen anything like it?
- Ouch! McIlroy's shot has painful consequences as fan ends up with cactus needles stuck all over his back! Perils of desert golf
- Now that's a drive: Watch Garcia, Donald, Casey and Manassero race around F1 track... in golf buggies! The golf stars proved to be a big hit on the track
- Stenson scoops shot of the year award for incredible eagle that clinched glory in Dubai Henrik Stenson has clinched European Tour prize for 2013
- The road to success: Schwartzel's stunning recovery off TARMAC and over trees... and he nearly holed it! Golf's miracle shot of 2014?
- Ecstasy to agony as Manley wins a Merc for a hole-in-one... and then implodes with an 11 on the next after being told it's not his! Ouch...
- Tiger lines up mammoth golf swing to hit ball from Europe to Asia across Istanbul's iconic Bosphorus Bridge Tiger Woods sent his ball from Asia to Europe
- Now that's what I call a water hazard! Westwood and Co try their luck pitching on to a man-made green in the middle of the Persian Gulf
- That's why they call him Wild Thing! Watch John Daly hit a drive out of fan's MOUTH (in the middle of a pizza restaurant car park) Drive for show...
- Watch as Schwartzel snaps his club in TWO in fit of anger as Muirfield gets better of him Charl Schwartzel suffered a tough time at Muirfield
- Van de Velde, Bjorn, Nicklaus and Scott... the gut-wrenching major meltdowns There have been plenty of players who gifted victory to rivals
- It's McIlroy v Jeff the robot! Watch as world No 2 takes on his stiffest challenge yet... beating a golf-lab computer in a driving range contest
- Rory, G-Mac and European Tour stars play BLINDFOLDED... but can any of them chip in without seeing the ball? Chipping in is hard enough anyway!
- Woods helps launch campaign to finally stop slow play Tiger Woods, Arnold Palmer and Clint Eastwood are among the stars in the clip
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The most precise tee-shot ever?
It may not quite have been what Brandon Crick had intended - but he could not have been any more accurate
- Tiger's Pebble dash, record-breaking Rory, Arnie and the 'fat boy'... and a rubber snake! The 10 greatest US Opens in history Enjoy classic footage
- No Tiger but the alligators on the fairways are a hazard in New Orleans Tthe local alligators held up play in the Zurich Classic opening round
- Bonkers Bubba transforms his boring old golf buggy into... a HOVERCRAFT! Bubba Watson owns a Green Jacket, General Lee and now this...
- Meet Fantastic Max, the man taking on the elite with two fingers on one hand... Max Glauert has only a thumb and little finger on his right hand
- Crane and Cauley play Sawgrass... with glowsticks and glowballs! The island green at TPC Sawgrass is hard enough to hit in the day!
- Watch out One Direction! Golf Boys Watson, Fowler, Mahan and Crane's latest song Hip-hop beat, boy-band dance moves, golf clubs - it can mean one thing
- EXCLUSIVE: Cricket with golf clubs! European Challenge Tour trick shot... This one was Inspired by Sachin Tendulkar's presence in Gujarat
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