Woods finally has something to roar about

Tiger Woods kept saying his game was getting better, even though his results didn’t show it.
On his first day at the Wyndham Championship, his score finally did.
Woods had his best round in more than two years Thursday, shooting a 6-under 64.
Two-time heart transplant recipient Erik Compton, William McGirt and Tom Hoge shared the first-round lead at 62.
Morgan Hoffman, Jim Herman and Derek Ernst followed at 63, and Martin Kaymer, Davis Love III and Carl Pettersson joined Woods at 64.
Locally, Steve Wheatcroft shot a bogey-free 3-under 67 and is tied for 35th. Brendan Todd was 1-under and tied for 87th.
It was Woods’ lowest score on the PGA Tour since a 61 in the second round of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in 2013.
He and the others took advantage of a low-scoring day at what he called a “tricky” Donald Ross-designed course at Sedgefield Country Club that gave up bunches of birdies after morning showers softened the fairways and greens.
“When it’s like this,” Woods said, “you’ve got to throw darts and go low.”
And while Compton and McGirt threatened the tournament record, the clear story of the day was Woods.
That low score couldn’t have come at a better time for the biggest name in the sport.
He set the tone by holing a 54-foot chip shot on his first hole, the par-4 10th, for the first of his seven birdies.
“Finally,” he said, “I got something out of my round.”
Woods arrived insisting he was playing better than his recent results might indicate.
He had missed the cut in three straight majors and had not finished better than a tie for 17th at The Masters. He’s at No. 187 on the FedEx Cup points list and probably needs a win to move into the top 125 and earn a playoff spot.
Ko leads LPGA event: Two-time champion Lydia Ko shot a 5-under 67 at Vancouver Golf Club to take the early lead in the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open.
Ko won in 2012 at Vancouver Golf Club at 15 years, 4 months to become the LPGA Tour’s youngest winner and fifth amateur champion. She successfully defended her title in 2013 as an amateur, winning by five strokes in Edmonton, Alberta. The 18-year-old New Zealander has two victories this year.
“It’s a really solid start,” Ko said. “I had the same score the last time I was here. It’s good to start off well and hopefully this will give me good momentum for the next couple of days.”
Error made calculating FedEx points: Robert Streb and Charley Hoffman now have more work to do if they want to make the Presidents Cup team for the first time.
A computer error caused the PGA Tour to readjust the U.S. standings Thursday. Streb had been in 11th place, 365 points behind the 10th spot to automatically qualify. Now he is No. 16 and 881 points behind. Hoffman went from No. 12 to No. 15.
The U.S. standings are based on FedEx Cup points for the 2015 team. Tour officials realized this week that double the points had been awarded starting with the Frys.com Open in October. Points were not supposed to count as double until the first event of 2015 at Kapalua.
Streb won the McGladrey Classic in October. Hoffman won the Mayakoba Classic in Mexico a month later. Other fall winners who fell in the adjusted standings were CIMB Classic winner Ryan Moore (No. 17 to No. 21) and Las Vegas winner Ben Martin (No. 26 to No. 34).
The top 10 players in the U.S. standings, including HSBC Champions winner Bubba Watson, were not affected.