That's Open-ing, with a capital "O" as in U.S. Open. He saw what was obvious to anyone, including a humble blogger: That Augusta National looked more like a U.S. Open layout than a typical Masters domain.
"There wre no roars out there," he said with a half-grin, indicating he wasn't complaining, only observing. At an Open, par is a good score. Woods was happy with his round of par 72, which included 15 pars, two bogeys, an eagle and no birdies.
"You don't have to shoot a great round [Thursday[ to win," said the player who left the course four shots behidn the leader. Woods hasn't broken par in the first round at Augusta since 2002, and had averaged 74 in the previous five Opens before today.
He thinks he is in fine shape. Methinks we will be talking about him late Sunday, one way or another.