Mcilroy Helps Birdie In Leaderboard

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Those three events will all be contested in June. As the calendar turns to July, there are three more events, including the Canadian Open.

 

The Canadian Tour Championship will be contested at Scarboro Golf and Country Club in Toronto, which is celebrating its centennial in 2012.

 

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Rory McIlroy and Robert Karlsson both fired rounds of five-under 67 on Thursday to share the opening- round lead of the Abu Dhabi Championship. Tiger Woods made his 2012 debut and played decently enough with a two-under 70. Woods, who ended his 2011 campaign with an unofficial win at the Chevron World Challenge, his first anywhere in two years, hit the ball well on Thursday, but the flat stick let him down.

 

Woods hit 10 of 14 fairways and 17 greens in regulation, but needed 35 putts in round one.

 

World No. 1 Luke Donald had a one-under 71 in his first outing of the year. Donald played with McIlroy, also making his first start of 2012, and Woods in round one and will again on Friday.

 

Perhaps the biggest surprise of Thursday's first round was the poor performance of the fourth-ranked player in the world.

 

The German has won this event three times with a runner-up finish in the last four years.

 

"I feel it suits me really well. Just one problem -- it suits Martin Kaymer even better," said McIlroy.

 

The reigning U.S. Open champion started on the 10th tee Thursday and went on a great run almost immediately after teeing off. McIlroy ran home a nine-footer for birdie at 11, a 12-footer for birdie at 12 and capped off his run with a three-foot birdie putt at the 13th.

 

McIlroy inched up the leaderboard late in his second nine. He knocked his tee ball inside four feet to set up a birdie at the par-three seventh, then chipped in for a birdie at the par-five eighth.

 

"It was a good score and a great way to start 2012, but I don't feel I drove the ball particularly well and it's something I've got to work on," said McIlroy. "It was nothing that a good practice session won't fix."

 

Gareth Maybin, Richard Finch and Jean-Baptiste Gonnet are knotted in third place at four-under 68.

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•    Neck of the woods

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•    Thatt awesome moment when i surprise her with a rose with a birdie in it. she loved it. #priceless

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•    and all was silent in the hundred acre woods.

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•    Wait, Rory just hit it off the golf course, got to drop it 20 yards away with no penalty and now has a birdie putt? #mustbenice

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•    Niggas blastin music wen ppl tryna sleep<<<<< stupid inconsiderate bastards n tha woods -_______-

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•    Rory McIlroy's performance yesterday was an exhibition of scoring. Certainly not brilliant at times, but he got the most out of his round.

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•    #brrrrrrrrr - it's a tad chilly in the park this morning! Thanks heavens for a warming freshly brewed cup of #rosylea #smashing #ff to all

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•    Woods Back To Back....#ImFried

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•    Lil' Wayne- Neck Of The Woods

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•    Congrats Meg Mallon!! Looking forward going into battle against u again! We have had some great once!

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•    Ever find it interesting that pro golfers putt better for par than they do for birdie ...

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