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LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England - Tiger Woods hit every tee shot exactly where he was looking, needed only eight putts through seven holes and reached 4-under par to quickly get his name atop the leaderboard Thursday in the British Open. It looked like he was just getting started. Instead, he stalled. On as easy a day as Royal Lytham & St. Annes can provide — soft fairways and greens, little evidence of wind — Woods had to settle for a 3-under 67 that left him three shots behind Adam Scott. Woods looked like he was capable of running away from the field with those four early birdies to take the lead. He narrowly missed a 10-foot birdie putt on the par-3 ninth hole for a 29, which would have been his lowest nine-hole start in any major. "We knew that we needed at least to get off to a quick start on that front nine, and I figured a couple under would have been good," Woods said. "But I look up on the board and Scotty is going pretty low, and so is everyone else. I felt I had to make a few more, and I was able to." He covered the flag with his tee shot on the par-3 12th hole, leaving himself 12 feet below the hole. But when he walked onto the green, he saw a leaderboard packed with names. His was not at the top, rather somewhere in the middle. Scott already was at 6 under and challenging the major championship record of 63. Bubba Watson, Graeme McDowell and Zach Johnson, all of them major champions, also were at 4 under with plenty of birdie holes ahead of them. Perhaps it was just a coincidence, but what followed was Woods worst putt of the round. Thats when Woods shifted into neutral. He gave himself reasonable chances, and kept leaving putts short. "I was just lacking a little bit of pace on the greens coming home," he said. One of the best shots he hit all day kept was on the only hole where he failed to make par — and it saved him from a much higher score. Woods worked out a game plan that looked similar to what he used at Hoylake five years ago when he last won the British Open. He rarely hit driver off the tee in an effort to avoid bunkers, only this was different. Royal Lythams bunkers are staggered in the fairway, and they are everywhere. Woods didnt just stay short of them, he navigated his way expertly through them. He hit a driver on No. 2 and a 5-wood on No. 10 that started left and over the heads of the spectators, only to curve gently back to the right and into a perfect spot. He appeared to be in complete control off the tee, which is pivotal for any good round at Lytham. The exception came on the 15th. Woods pulled his iron into the rough, the ball nestled at the bottom of 18-inch grass that had been trampled by footsteps and cables. He tossed aside the cable and some television equipment and tried to hammer a wedge some 60 yards over a pot bunker he couldnt see. It was an example of Woods saying earlier in the week that some spots at Royal Lytham were "unplayable." He had a shot, just not much of one. This one didnt make it 60 yards. The grass grabbed the shaft the club and turned it, and the ball fluttered into the side of a hillock in even deeper rough. The top of the grass came up to Woods knees as he waited for his caddie to get the yardage — 118 yards to the front of the green, 137 yards to the hole. Another miscue, and this could get ugly. But he hit that one onto the green, missing the pot bunker to the left, and hit a beautiful lag putt to escape with bogey. "To carry it 80 yards, its still ... people dont realize how deep some spots are," Woods said. He managed to finish the round without further incident, and the report card looked like this: two drivers out of his 14 tee shots; all but one fairway; and four birdies, though none over the final 11 holes. "I felt like I had pretty good control," Woods said. "I was shaping the golf ball both ways. Sometimes I rode the wind, sometimes I held it against it. But as I said, I was playing to my spots. I had certain sections I wanted to put the ball in, and I did that all day." It was a solid start, and Woods will never complain about a 67, even on the slightly better half of the draw. "I got off to a positive start today," Woods said. "Weve got three more rounds. Weve got a lot of golf to play." cheap jerseys . Jamal Crawford led a fourth-quarter rally with 13 of his 21 points, and Los Angeles beat Phoenix 117-99 on Saturday, winning its fifth in a row while sending the Suns to their season-worst sixth straight loss. wholesale jerseys . LOUIS PARK, Minn. http://www.wholesalejerseyfreeshipping.us/ . -- Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium beat Taiwans Chang Kai-chen 7-5, 2-6, 7-5 on Monday in the first-round of the Bank of the West Classic. cheap nfl jerseys . 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Carlos Beltran connected on his National League-leading 16th homer in the fifth and Shane Robinson added a two-run shot in the seventh to help the Cardinals take the series. Lynns nine victories are tied with R.A. Dickey of the Mets for most in the NL. Lynn (9-2) allowed six hits and two runs to continue his mastery of the NL Central. He is 7-0 with 60 strikeouts in 15 career appearances in the division. "You could tell he felt really good today," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. "The ball was jumping out of his hand he was blowing fastballs pretty good." Houston starter J.A. Happ (4-6) allowed five hits and four runs with five walks in 4 2-3 innings. The Cardinals were up 5-2 before piling on seven runs in the seventh. St. Louis batted around in that inning with 11 Cardinals coming to the plate. Rafael Furcal singled with two outs in the seventh before consecutive walks to Beltran and Matt Holliday. Allen Craig hit an RBI single before Freeses shot to the Crawford Boxes in left field cleared the bases. Jed Lowrie gave Houston a 1-0 lead with a homer to the first row of the Crawford Boxes in the first inning. Brett Wallace doubled in the second on a ball that sailed over a leaping Craig and into the far corner of right field. Chris Johnson followed with an RBI double down the right field line to make it 2-0. Chris Snyder hit a one-out single and Jordan Schafer drew a walk to load the bases with two outs. Lynn limited the damage by striking out Jose Altuve to end the inning. The Astros couldnt get much going offensively after that while the Cardinals heated up. Tyler Greene got the Cardinals first hit -- a single to start the third inning. Happ then battled Robinson to a 12-pitch at-bat before walking him. 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Houston manager Brad Mills made some strange changes in the ninth inning when he put outfielder Brian Bogusevic in to pitch and moved Johnson, the third baseman, to right field. Bogusevic was drafted as a pitcher, but had never pitched in a major league game and it was Johnsons first career appearance in the outfield. "Its something that is probably the last thing that a manager likes to have to go through, but to put that together to get through it, thats what we had to do," Mills said of the ninth-inning changes. Bogusevic allowed three hits and the home run to Freese in one inning. "It felt kind of strange, but once I knew I could throw strikes, I was more comfortable," Bogusevic said. Freese felt like hitting the homer off him was payback for one he took from him with a leaping catch in the stands on the Cardinals last trip to Houston. "I dont like it. Its weird," Freese said of facing him. "But Bogusevic robbed me the last time we were here, so Im going to count that one." 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