Tiger Woods opens with 65, shares lead at Tour Championship

ATLANTA -- The goal all along was to win a tournament, as silly as that may have sounded -- even to Tiger Woods. First came being able to play, and then putting together a game, and then giving himself chances. All of that has happened in rapid succession throughout a ninth-month run of what Woods has called one of his best years, even without a win. Now that possibility exists again. It was just one round, and Woods has had several chances to win this year, but his opening 65 at East Lake on Thursday was every bit as good or better than the 62 he shot two weeks ago to start the BMW Championship. And the closing eagle putt that dropped to tie him atop the Tour Championship leaderboard with Rickie Fowler certainly was a nice boost. "It would enhance the year,'' Woods said at the prospect of PGA Tour win No. 80. "To be able to play golf again and to earn my way back to this level is something that I was hoping I would do at the beginning of the...

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