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Grizzled veterans Maggert, Singh can still swing sticks
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. -- Vijay Singh and Jeff Maggert sent reminders that they're still able to compete with the younger crowd.
Singh had his best round in six months, shooting a 7-under 63 on Thursday in the Greenbrier Classic to take a one-stroke lead over Maggert, Jonathan Byrd and Martin Flores -- and leave Tiger Woods eight shots behind.
"Gosh, I don't know where that came from," the 49-year-old Singh said. "I've been playing pretty good golf for a while, but just never got any scoring going. But today seemed I hit it close and drove the ball really well, hit a lot of greens and made some nice putts."
Last week at the tough layout at Congressional, only seven players posted first-round scores in the 60s.
Sixty-two players broke par Thursday on the Old White TPC course, with the greens far more forgiving than last year when they were reseeded and Scott Stallings won at 10 under.
Woods wasn't one of them. Coming off a victory Sunday in the AT&T National, he struggled with his putter in a 1-over 71 in his final tuneup for the British Open in two weeks.
"I was a little bit off with my game, and on top of that I didn't have the speed of these greens at all," said Woods, the tour leader this year with three victories. "I missed literally every single putt high today."
-- The Associated Press
-- The Associated Press
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition July 6, 2012 C5
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