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Woods fires his best round of season at Greenbrier

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Jul 2, 2015; White Sulphur Springs, WV, USA; Tiger Woods on the 16th green at The Old White TPC. Mandatory …

(Reuters) - Tiger Woods shot his lowest score in 16 months, a four-under-par 66 that left him four strokes behind leader Scott Langley after the opening round of the Greenbrier Classic on Thursday.

Though conditions were relatively easy on Greenbrier's rain-softened Old White Course, the round was a welcome reprieve for Woods, whose shocking slump over the past year raised questions of whether he ever again would be competitive.

Two weeks before the British Open at St.