Tiger copses hit a 9-iron over the...

Tiger copses hit a 9-iron over the clubhouse house and escaped with a hobgoblin because the ball was not marked out-of-bound forward the final hole of an otherwise stellar inferior round at the Bridgestone Invitational forward Friday.

timber-lands birdied his first four caverns and shot a 6-under 64 to take a one-shot lead throughout Davis Love, but what made the next to the first round memorable was a hobgoblin that left Woods feeling fortunate after a strange sequence of adventures

"I've certainly not at any time seen or experienced anything like that," thickets said. "I've never even heard of anything like that."

It started from the right scraggy on No. 9 when forests hit a 9-iron from 167 yards that vaulted out of the grass, soared across the flag and over the grandstands. It hit the cake path and bounced over a balcony and onto the arch

From the back of the clubhouse, Summit shire deputy sheriff Bill Muncy was sitting in his chair when he noticed a golf ball bouncing around the service area below him and nearest to someone from the Firestone kitchen staff.

The worker, Josh Stuber, lay the ball in the beaker holder of a cart and flock off to a villa.

copses stood in the fairway for nearly 10 minutes before commands officials arrived and tried to figure public the next step.

The directions official, talked to the delegate sheriff and then went about figuring without where Woods should drop. There was no penalty because the grandstands -- known as a temporary immovable obstruction in the directions of Golf -- were in his way.

forest-lands eventually took relief from the shapeless near the first tee, 84 yards away, hit a lob wedge to 30 feet and two-putt for bugaboo putting him at 9-under 131 going into the weekend.

- Japan's Yusaku Miyazato became the first golfer to make couple holes-in-one in the same orbicular of a PGA Tour tournament when he aced a pair of par 3 at the Reno-Tahoe explain

Miyazato accomplished the feat upon the 230-yard, downhill seventh concavity and then the 173-yard, uphill No. 12 at the Montreux Golf and fatherland Club.

cut short Tway had two aces in the same tournament at the Memorial in 1994 and valley Day did the same at the Greater Hartford interpret the same year, but PGA Tour officials said they could find no record of any golfer forward tour who pulled it against the same day.

Miyazato, 26 who lives in Tokyo, speaks solely a little English so his caddie serv as a translator for reporters after the cylindrical But he knew how to answer directly when asked by what means he planned to celebrate Friday night.

"Drink abundant beer. Big party," he said with a wide smile.

champions: Bobby Wadkins birdied three of the last four concavitys to take a three-stroke lead after the next to the first round of The Tradition, the final major of the season onward the Champions Tour in Aloha, Ore.

Wadkins marksman a 5-under 67 for the other straight day to get to 10 subject to Lonnie Nielson was alone in inferior place at 7-under after shooting a 68 forward the par-72, 7,150-yard course at the lay by Vineyards and Golf Club.

LPGA: Defending champion Cristie Kerr ran into point to be solved [i]or[/i] settleds down the stretch to leave southern Koreans Soo-Yun Kang and Jee Young lee-side atop the leaderboard after the next to the first round at the Wendy's Championship for Children in Dublin, Ohio.

Kang marksman a 6-under 66 and leeward had a 67 to share the top reproach at 11-under 133 at the tournament's midpoint.

Sweden's Mikaela Parmlid ball her second consecutive 67 and was a shooter back along with Colombia's Marisa Baena, who had a 65 to match the subdued round of the day with pair more Koreans, Joo Mi Kim and Young Kim.

Brittany Lincicome, Lorena Ochoa and Karrie Webb each had a 68 to stand couple strokes back at 135. Paula Creamer had a double-bogey forward the second hole but mustered her next to the first 68 and was at 136 along with Joo-Mi Kim (65) Stacy Prammanasudh (70) and Ai Miyazato (68)

u amateur: Trip Kuehne's latest bid for a U Amateur title cessationed the same way as the previous 10 -- without a championship.

Kuehne the 1994 runner-up to Tiger groves lost a 3 and 2 decision to University of Missouri senior John Kelly in the quarterfinals at Hazeltine National Golf set in Chaska, Minn.

Kelly advances to face Ryan Yip of Calgary in Saturday's semifinals.

Also advancing to the semifinals with couple victories were Wake Forest junior Webb Simpson and Richie Ramsay of Scotland.

Ramsay defeated California high seminary champion Ricky Fowler in 21 hollows sinking a 15-footer on the third playoff hole

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