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Woods shoots 68 after rough start

GAINESVILLE, Va. - Tiger Woods took a conservative 3-wood off the first hole Thursday at the Quicken Loans National when many players were hitting driver. No matter - he still pull-hooked it into the gallery, hit his second shot into a greenside bunker, and lipped out a 5-footer for par before slamming his putter against his bag.

GAINESVILLE, Va. - Tiger Woods took a conservative 3-wood off the first hole Thursday at the Quicken Loans National when many players were hitting driver. No matter - he still pull-hooked it into the gallery, hit his second shot into a greenside bunker, and lipped out a 5-footer for par before slamming his putter against his bag.

On the third hole, he missed the green well left and had to get up-and-down for bogey. A three-putt on No. 4 left him 3 over. It was his final bogey of the day.

Woods got a fortunate deflection off a marshal left of the green on the par-5 fifth. He apologized and made his first birdie. Then he ran off five birdies in six holes around the turn for a 3-under 68. That left him 5 shots behind leaders Retief Goosen and Ryo Ishikawa at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club.

Woods is the host of the Quicken Loans National, which he won in 2009 and 2012 at Congressional in Maryland. The last of his 79 PGA Tour victories was nearly two years ago, and he has plummeted to 266th in the world.

LPGA Tour

TURNBERRY, Scotland - Donald Trump's show-stealing arrival at the Women's British Open upstaged Hyo-Joo Kim's latest strong start in a major championship.

The 18-year-old South Korean player was midway through a 7-under 65 in the first round when Trump landed in a private helicopter to begin a two-day visit at the tournament at his Turnberry resort in western Scotland.

The fourth-ranked Kim, who shot a first-round 61 in winning the Evian Championship in her major championship debut last year, had a 1-stroke lead over Lydia Ko and Cristie Kerr.

European Tour

ABERDEEN, Scotland - Former British Open champion Paul Lawrie of Scotland beat France's Romain Wattel, 5 and 4, to advance to the second round of the European Tour match play event he is hosting.

John Daly dropped out with a 2-up loss to Spain's Jorge Campillo.

European Tour

ANTO DA SERRA, Madeira Islands - Spain's Antonio Hortal shot a 9-under 63 to take a 1-shot lead after the first round of the Madeira Islands Open on Thursday.