Say it quietly: Tiger thinks he might just be heading out of the woods

TIGER WOODS shot his lowest score of the PGA season and insisted he wasn’t “crazy” to think that his game was almost there.

The troubled former world number one bounced back in part from his miserable US Open to shoot a fourunder-par 66 on day one of The Greenbrier Classic.

It was still only enough for a 15-way share of 12th place, four shots adrift of leader Scott Langley, but it represented a significant improvement on recent performances from Woods.

In his last outing, Woods missed the cut in the US Open at Chambers Bay with his worst-ever score in the event (80 in the first round) and highest 36-hole total of his career (156).

That was one of the low points of what has largely been a dismal 2015 for Woods which has seen him slump to 220th in the world rankings and record three scores in the 80s in his last six tournaments. But the 14-time major winner had a much better day in West Virginia on Thursday as he broke 70 for only the third time this season and the first time since the Masters in April, where he carded a four-under-par 68 in the third round.

Starting on the 10th at The Old White TPC, Woods carded birdies on the 12th, 15th and 16th before dropping his first shot of the day on the 17th to reach the turn in 34.

When asked after his round what positive results like this would mean to him going forward, Woods said: “I felt like I wasn’t very far away. I know people think I’m crazy for saying that, but I just felt like I wasn’t that far. I just had to make a couple little tweaks, and I felt like I pulled that off.”