Tiger Woods created consecutive birdies late and closed with a par to shoot 2-under seventy Thursday morning in spherical one of the Memorial Tournament.

Looking rested and additional ready than he was for the PGA Championship at Bethpage, Woods was glorious off the tee and overcame some early problems with the irons. His yardages weren’t quite dialed in at the beginning of the spherical however looked solid by the tip of it, together with his 8-iron approach to merely some feet for birdie at the par-3 eighth hole.

That came on the heels of another birdie at No. seven as Woods finished sturdy despite a irksome begin in his cluster with Justin Rose and Bryson DeChambeau. He’s still 5 shots behind early leader Ryan Moore, United Nations agency shot 7-under sixty five Thursday.

Woods and Co. are back at it at 1:16 p.m. Friday afternoon for spherical two.

Woods’ birdie at the par-5 fourth hole all over a stretch of 9 consecutive pars, however he gave it right back with a bogey at the par-4 fifth once missing the inexperienced long along with his approach.

He got off to a decent begin with a birdie at the par-5 eleventh, his second hole of the day, exhausting a seven-footer to urge to one below on the day. He fell back to even once failing to urge up-and-down from a land site bunker at the par-4 ordinal hole.

The Memorial Tournament can function Woods’ final pre-U.S. Open tune-up sooner than the third major of the year next month at rock Beach. Woods improved on AN even-par seventy two within the gap spherical of the 2018 Memorial, wherever he tallied a T-23 end at nine below for the week.