SAN DIEGO –  J.B. Holmes birdied all but one of the par 5s at Torrey Pines and escaped with bogey on his one big miss Saturday, giving him a 4-under 68 to join Harris English at the top of a crowded leaderboard in the Farmers Insurance Open.

Given this is the South Course at Torrey Pines, Sunday might be more about survival than shootout.

“This is a U.S. Open golf course,” English said. “And you’ve got to treat it like that.”

English led by as many as three shots early in the third round until his streak of 39 holes at par or better ended with a double bogey on No. 4. He lost the lead again late in his round with a poor chip on the 16th and had to settle for a 1-over 73.

They were at 9-under 207 with a host of contenders behind them. Of the 12 players separated by only two shots going into the final round, all but three have won on the PGA Tour and two them – Jimmy Walker and Bill Haas – have won in the last month.

In the previous four events this year, two in Hawaii and two in the desert, a score like 73 would be enough to send someone out of contention. The South Course at Torrey Pines, host of the 2008 U.S. Open, is different with its length and its thick rough. Jhonattan Vegas, two shots behind, hit one tee shot on the 14th hole that missed the fairway by a few feet and he had to stoop over just to see his golf ball.

“It’s a battle out there,” English said. “I had a tough stretch on 4 … I had a tough go on 16. But you’ve got to grind.”

The 68 by Holmes, Carlos Ortiz and defending champion Scott Stallings, who was three shots behind, was the low score in the third round.

“Guys are getting bunched,” Walker said. “You’ve got par 5s that are tough, and a lot of them are unreachable.”

Walker did his part. Standing in the 18th fairway, 261 yards from the hole and a slight breeze in his face, he decided at the last minute to go up one club with a 3-wood, choked up slightly and hit a cut. It wound up about 12 feet by the hole, and his eagle putt to share the lead touched the right side of the cup. He tapped in for a 70.

Holmes is on the A-list of power players, and while his length helped, his short game led to birdies. He got up-and-down from a bunker on No. 6, reached the greenside bunker in two shots on the 603-yard 13th hole and had to lay up on the 18th after driving into the rough. He holed a 12-footer for birdie.

He was tied for the lead until pulling his tee shot into a hazard left of the 17th fairway, and then putting the next shot into a bunker. But he got up-and-down to escape with bogey and had a share of the lead when English made his late bogey.

“This golf course is a big, ball-striking course,” Holmes said. “So you’ve got to hit it in the fairway, you’ve got to hit some good shots and give yourself a chance for some birdies. … The rough, it probably plays worse than it did at the U.S. Open when they had it here in 2008.”

Lucas Glover, emerging from a tough stretch of poor putting, had a 70 and will be in the final group with Holmes and English, a close friend.

No shot was more memorable for Chad Campbell than his hole-in-one on the picturesque third hole with a pitching wedge. He played well the other 17 holes for a 70 and is in the hunt for his first victory in more than seven years.

Others at 8-under 208 were Spencer Levin (70) and Nick Watney, who made all pars on the back nine for a 72.

Day, at No. 8 in the world the only player from the top 10 to make cut, holed out on the 17th for eagle to salvage a mediocre day and shot 71. He was only two shots behind.

Leading the Canadian charge is Adam Hadwin. The Abbotsford, B.C. native is 4-under. Roger Sloan of Merrit, B.C. has a share of 62nd at 1-over.

English, a two-time winner on tour, figured anything under par on Sunday might be good enough to win. Or maybe not. He later said anyone within five shots of the lead could not be counted out in the final round at Torrey Pines. If that’s the case, 31 players are still in the picture.

BOCA RATON, Fla. – Bart Bryant holed out with a 6-iron from 195 yards on the par-5 18th hole Saturday for the first double eagle on the Champions Tour since 2010, giving him a share of the second-round lead in the Allianz Championship at Broken Sound.

Bryant had bogeyed four of his previous seven holes to fall off the pace before his second shot at the 509-yard 18th hole landed on the front of the green and rolled into the hole for his first career albatross.

Playing in the final group, Bryant finished with a 3-under 69 to join Paul Goydos, Tom Pernice Jr. and Canada’s Rod Spittle atop the leader board at 9-under 135. Spittle had a 66, and Goydos and Pernice shot 69.

“I was going to hit a 5-iron, but I thought if I got the 6-iron high enough it would just clear the bunker,” Bryant said. “I never saw it go in. That sure made up for a lot of bad shots.”

Keith Fergus was the last player to make a double eagle on the 50-and-over tour, accomplishing the rare feat in the 2010 SAS Championship. After Bryant’s heroics, Goydos and Pernice made birdies at the 18th hole to make it a quartet at 9 under.

“It was cool to see, but it was kind of eerie afterward,” Goydos said. “It kind of took the air out of the tournament. It was like a bomb got off and we got the crater.”

Spittle, who had to make a 5-foot par putt on the 72nd hole of Q-school last fall to keep his card, birdied five of his first seven holes to charge into contention. His lone blemish was a bogey at the par-5 11th. “I’ll save the heroics for tomorrow,” Spittle said.

Reigning player of the year Bernhard Langer had a 70 to reach 7 under. He was tied for fifth with Olin Browne (67), Guy Boros (68) and Mark Brooks (69).

Twelve players were within three shots of the lead. Interestingly, even though Bryant made a double eagle on the last hole to move into a first-place tie, he will tee off in the next-to-last group in the final round.

Stephen Ames is tied for 24th, six-shots off the lead at 3-under.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Bernd Wiesberger is well positioned to cap a superb month of golf with victory in the Malaysian Open after shooting a 9-under 63 on Saturday, taking a two-shot lead going into the final round.

He moved to 17-under 199 overall at Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club, two strokes ahead of Spain’s Alejandro Canizares, who finished his roller-coaster round eagle-birdie-bogey to card a 68.

Defending champion Lee Westwood struggled for much of the round before picking up birdies on his final two holes to sit three off the pace following a 69.

The Englishman is in a tie for third on 14-under alongside compatriot Paul Waring, who carded a 65 featuring two eagles, six birdies and three bogeys.

The round of the day belonged to Indian Anirban Lahiri, who produced a bogey-free 62 that put him in outright fifth on 12-under.

They are all chasing the white-hot Wiesberger, who has started 2015 with a tied sixth in Abu Dhabi, third in Qatar and tied fourth at the Dubai Desert Classic to move into the world’s top 50 for the first time.

“It’s my European Tour record, I’ve never shot 63, so it was good to do it on Saturday when in contention,” Wiesberger said. “I started really nicely and finished really nicely, so there were a lot of good things.

“I just have to hit good shots and see what happens. If I keep playing like this, I have a good chance to take this home.”

The world No.48 opened with five consecutive birdies and carded 10 in total, with his lone bogey coming on the par 3 eighth hole.

The last of Wiesberger’s four European Tour titles came in his native Austria back in 2012, but he has now played 17 straight rounds in par or better, dating back to last November.

Lahiri started the day nine back in a tie for 29th before equaling the best round ever produced at the KLGCC. Frenchman Raphael Jacquelin also shot 62 in 2009.

“It was awesome,” Lahiri said. “I started off in a positive mood and I kept the momentum going.

“I didn’t really care much what was happening on the leaderboard. It was nice to go out there and play with freedom and that’s what I’ll try to do tomorrow.”

Canada’s Richard T. Lee (69-69-68) is within striking distance, seven-shots off the lead.

SAN DIEGO – Tiger Woods is gone from Torrey Pines, and Phil Mickelson joined him Friday by missing the cut.

In a tournament that quickly lost a big chunk of its star power, Harris English played another bogey-free round for a 6-under 66 on the North Course to build a two-shot lead Friday in the Farmers Insurance Open.

Mickelson, who worked hard to get into shape in the offseason and was as optimistic as ever, was done in by his short game. The best he could managed was a 72 on the North Course, and he missed the cut by two shots. It was the first time since 2002 that Mickelson missed the cut in back-to-back weeks on the PGA Tour.

Woods withdrew after 11 holes Thursday, citing tightness in his lower back. For the first time, Woods and Mickelson failed to make the cut in the same tournament in consecutive weeks on the PGA Tour.

“My putting is beyond pathetic,” Mickelson said. “And if I can’t get back to the levels of 2013, I’m not sure what I’m going to do. Because this is very frustrating.”

Mickelson is not playing the last two weeks of the West Coast Swing because his kids are on spring break.

He was in good company leaving early.

Justin Rose, at No. 5 the highest-ranked player at Torrey Pines, also shot 70 on the North and missed the cut. So did Hideki Matsuyama, who three-putted for par on the closing hole on the South Course to miss by one shot; Jordan Spieth, who needed an eagle on the 18th on the South to make the cut and hit it in the water; and Dustin Johnson, playing for the first time since a six-month break to get professional help for “personal challenges.”

“The last two days, I think normally I probably would be at least 5 or 6 under right now instead of even par,” Johnson said. “But I’m happy with where it’s at. Just a little rusty, that’s all.”

Mike Wier shot 74-74 and failed to advance to the weekend.

Even those who are still around had a tough time, particularly Phoenix Open winner Brooks Koepka.

He reached the par-5 18th in two on the South Course and a two-putt birdie would have put him three shots out of the lead. Koepka missed his 6-foot birdie attempt, and then missed a pair of 2 1/2-foot putts and wound up five-putting for double bogey. That gave him a 74 and he was six shots behind.

English was at 10-under 134, two shots ahead of Nick Watney (65), Jhonattan Vegas (69) and Martin Laird, who had another 68. Laird was tied for the lead with two holes to play in Phoenix last week until a bogey-double bogey finish.

Most pleasing to English was a clean card going into the weekend. He was on the ropes early on Thursday he chipped through the green on the par-3 11th hole on the South and was facing certain bogey. But he chipped in for par, and he has only had a few close calls with bogey ever since.

English kept it simple on the North by making three birdies on the par 5s. He two-putted twice, got up-and-down with a simple chip on the ninth hole and was poised to add another birdie on the par-5 18th until his 6-iron went long and into a tough lie. He chipped to 20 feet and two-putted for par.

Even so, it was another solid start to a tournament this year after going through some choppy play in 2014 that eventually led him to change swing coaches. English tied for third in the Sony Open, well behind a runaway by Jimmy Walker.

“When you start struggling, it’s easy to try to find stuff that’s wrong with your game, wrong with your swing,” he said. “I definitely was more swing-oriented than playing golf. That’s not me. That’s not how I grew up playing the game. You’re standing over shots thinking about swing positions instead of trying to see your ball flight and trying to play golf. That’s what I was doing the latter half of the year, it was really frustrating.”

Walker (66), Jason Day (65) and Ian Poulter (71) led a large group at 6-under 138. The cut was at 1-under 143.

Still, nothing summed up the day – the entire week – than when Mickelson finished his round. A stream of fans four-wide stretched for 100 yards on the path toward the exit, dozens of them wearing blue-sleeved shirts that read, “Team Phil.”

Mickelson tied for 24th in his season debut at the Humana Challenge before missing the cut at Phoenix and Torrey Pines. He said he spent so much time on his long game that he didn’t put as much work in on his putting because he didn’t feel he needed it.

That’s no longer the case.

“It was one of the worst putting performances, and the first few weeks really have been the same way,” Mickelson said. “And you simply can’t compete at this level putting like that.”

One player who did get his putter working Friday was Canada’s Adam Hadwin, who has a share of 33rd with fellow Canuck Roger Sloan. Hadwin used his flatstick to sink this lengthy putt for eagle.

PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas – Brittany Lincicome and Sun Young Yoo topped the leaderboard Friday in the wind-swept Bahamas LPGA Classic when second-round play was suspended because of darkness.

In wind gusting to 35-40 mph, Yoo completed a first-round 70 and shot 69 in the second to match Lincicome at 7 under on Atlantis Resort’s Ocean Club course.

“It was very tough, especially with the wind,” Yoo said. “I just tried to stay focused and just tried to make the right putt with the wind.”

Lincicome was 2 under in the second round with 13 holes left. She shot a 68 on Thursday.

“It was kind of just like hit-it-and-laugh kind of mentality,” Lincicome said. “Like we weren’t taking anything really seriously. We knew it was going to be blowing really strong and we’re just thankful we didn’t have to play all day. … There was nothing we could do about it. It’s so ridiculous out there that it’s not even normal. It’s kind of just you’ve got to laugh about it. You can’t get mad.”

After rain delayed play Thursday, only half of the players were able to finish the second round Friday. In May 2013, the inaugural event was reduced to three 12-hole rounds because of flooding.

Second-ranked Inbee Park, Dori Carter, Jenny Shin, Kelly Shon were 6 under. Shin and Shon shot 71, Carter had a 72, and Park was 1 under for the round with 13 holes left.

“My caddie, after we hit our approach shot on the last hole, said, `I’m not going to lie, this is the worst wind conditions I’ve ever seen,'” Carter said. “He told me on the last hole. He didn’t say it middle of the round. But we laughed about that.”

Lydia Ko, playing her first event since taking the No. 1 spot in the world ranking, was 3 under after rounds of 72 and 71. The 17-year-old New Zealander tied for second last week in the season-opening event in Florida, to break Tiger Woods’ record as the youngest player to reach No. 1.

Third-ranked Stacy Lewis was 2 under after rounds of 71 and 73.

Defending champion Jessica Korda was 1 over. She shot 73-74.

Brooke Henderson was in danger of missing the cut in her first LPGA Tour start as a professional. After opening with a 75, the 17-year-old Canadian was 1 over – and 3 over overall – through five holes in the second round. She won a Suncoast Series event last week in Florida in her pro debut and earned a spot in the field Monday in the qualifying tournament.

Michelle Wie also struggled. She opened with a 76 and played the first five holes in the second round in 2 over to drop to 5 over.

Rebecca Lee-Bentham was 4-over and Alena Sharp was 5-over thru four holes.

BOCA RATON, Fla. – Tom Pernice Jr. closed with a double bogey for a 6-under 66 and a share of the first-round lead Friday in the Allianz Championship with Paul Goydos and Bart Bryant.

Pernice, second behind Rocco Mediate two years ago at Broken Sound, hooked his drive into the water on the par-4 ninth. After a drop, he hit a 3-wood short of the green and missed a 9-foot putt. The 429-yard ninth was the most difficult hole Friday, playing to an average of 4.642 in windy conditions.

“It’s one of those things where you have to step up and hit a shot, and I wasn’t able to pull it off,” said Pernice, a two-time winner last year on the Champions Tour. “Not much you can do about it.”

Bryant, playing alongside Pernice, had four birdies and an eagle as he tries to win for the second time on the Champions Tour. Goydos, a winner last year in his first season on the 50-and-over tour, had seven birdies and a bogey and saved par a half-dozen times.

“I probably turned a 69 or a 70 into a 66,” Goydos said. “That’s what I have to do to be successful out here.

Bernhard Langer was a stroke back along with Fred Funk and Tom Byrum, who got into the field as an alternate. Langer, the reigning player of the year, won the 2010 event and has three other top-three finishes at Broken Sound in the last six years. He lives 15 minutes from the course.

Peter Jacobson chipped in for eagle at the 18th hole for a 68. He was tied with Brad Bryant (Bart’s brother), Grant Waite, Mark Brooks, Loren Roberts and Roger Chapman. Waite is returning to competition after spending the last six years as an instructor to several PGA Tour players.

Canada’s Rod Spittle had a 69.

Defending champion Michael Allen had a 70, 10 shots higher than his opening round last year.

Stephen Ames and Jim Rutledge both carded 74s.

Nolan Henke had a 77 in his Champions Tour debut. The three-time PGA Tour winner turned 50 in November.

ACTON, Ont. – The PGA Women’s Championship of Canada will return to Burlington Golf and Country Club this July.

The national championship makes its return to Burlington for the first time since 2010 from July 20-22.

“The PGA of Canada is very excited to be returning to Burlington Golf and Country Club for the first time in five years,” said PGA of Canada president Constant Priondolo. “There was tremendous support for this championship back in 2010 and I expect the same to be true this time around.”

The undulating topography of the property with its sandy loam and attractive location on Hamilton Bay offered exceptional natural raw material for the design of a golf course. Today’s challenging layout at Burlington Golf and Country Club, still essentially that designed by Stanley Thompson, Canada’s leading contemporary golf course architect, opened in 1924.

“Burlington Golf and Country Club is very proud once again host the PGA Women’s Championship of Canada,” said head PGA professional Trevor Fackrell. “The golf course has changed dramatically since the last time we hosted in 2010 and sure the players will appreciate our brand new bent grass greens, as well as the new bunkering on every hole of our Stanley Thompson gem.”

The PGA Women’s Championship of Canada was first played in 1987 and past champions include Cathy Sherk, Gail Graham, Nancy Harvey, Lorie Kane, Alena Sharp, Jessica Shepley and last year’s winner Brooke Henderson.

In 2014, the Canadian golf superstar became not only the first amateur to capture the PGA Women’s Championship of Canada, but the youngest as well. The then 16-year-old Smiths Falls, Ont., native posted a two-day total of 13-under par at FireRock Golf Club in Komoka, Ont., setting a new championship scoring record.

Henderson’s 36-hole total of 131 (65-66) was five shots better than 2008 winner Hannah Jun of San Diego, Calif.

Hamilton’s Alena Sharp, a three-time winner of the PGA Women’s Championship finished third at six under. Samantha Richdale of Kelowna B.C. and American amateur Simin Feng rounded out the top five.

The champion of the PGA Women’s Championship of Canada will receive an exemption into the 2015 Canadian Pacific Women’s Open to be held Aug. 17-23, 2015 at the Vancouver Golf Club in Vancouver.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Defending champion Lee Westwood was joined by a fast-finishing Alejandro Canizares of Spain to top the Malaysian Open leaderboard by three shots after the second round on Friday.

Westwood followed his opening 6-under-par 66 with a 67, at one stage holding a three-shot lead at Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club.

But Canizares caught him with birdies on three of the last four holes in a bogey-free 65, the best score of the tournament. He has shot in the 60s in eight of his last 10 rounds.

At 11-under 133 overall, they lead by three from Bernd Wiesberger, the Austrian who has been threatening a third European Tour win in the past month. On the desert swing, he tied for sixth in Abu Dhabi, was third in Doha, and tied for fourth in Dubai.

Wiesberger was a shot ahead of Paul Waring of England (68), and Peter Lawrie of Ireland (66).

“I was leading this time last year, and I’m leading again,” Westwood said after rolling in a 15-foot birdie putt on the 18th green.

“I feel like I’m capable of a lot of low scores, my swing is getting towards where I want it, and I’m feeling comfortable on the greens.”

Westwood, chasing his 24th tour win, started the day sharing the lead with former U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell, but the Northern Irishman’s charge faltered after a 73.

McDowell mixed four birdies with three bogeys and a double bogey, to fall six shots back.

It has been a promising display so far from Lawrie, who won the Open de Espana in 2008 before a gradual decline that ended with him losing his tour card last year.

“I’m very lucky to have received a sponsor’s invite,” Lawrie said. “I’ve been in the doldrums for the past 20-odd months. I’ve struggled with a lot of swing changes and confidence, but my confidence is coming back. Yesterday and today I played flawless golf.”

Canada’s Richard T. Lee has a share of 6th at 5-under, five-shots off the lead.

Former PGA Championship winner Y.E. Yang, former world No. 9 David Howell, and prominent Indians Jeev Milkha Singh and Arjun Atwal were among those to miss the cut, which was at 2 over.

PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas – Brooke Pancake shot a 6-under 67 on Thursday to take a one-stroke lead in the suspended first round of the Bahamas LPGA Classic.

Play was suspended for the day at 2:47 p.m. and more than inch of rain fell on Atlantis Resort’s Ocean Club course. In May 2013, the inaugural event was reduced to three 12-hole rounds because of flooding.

Playing in calmer morning conditions, Pancake birdied six of her first seven holes in her bogey-free round.

“I luckily got to get out early this morning,” Pancake said. “I gave myself a lot of birdie looks and I really took advantage of those.”

Second-ranked Inbee Park was tied for second with Natalie Gulbis and Brittany Lincicome. Gulbis is making her first start since having hip surgery in November.

“I hit it good,” Gulbis said. “It’s been like any other getting ready for the season. I didn’t play last week. I wasn’t quite ready last week. I’m just happy to be back.”

Lincicome played in wind gusting around 20 mph.

“It was different out there,” Lincicome said. “Every time I was with a left-to-right wind, I either snap-hooked it way left or blocked it way right. But when the wind was right to left, I crushed it and I did really well.”

Lydia Ko, playing her first event since taking the No. 1 spot in the world ranking, was 1 under through eight holes. The 17-year-old New Zealander tied for second last week in the season-opening event in Florida, to break Tiger Woods’ record as the youngest player to reach No. 1.

“We’ve still got 10 more holes and I know there are birdie opportunities,” Ko said. “The 18th is a par 5, too. We’ve just got to stay patient. Hopefully, I will make a couple more birdies down the stretch.”

Ko played in the rain for the first time since switching from glasses to contact lenses.

“They’re good. No problems,” Ko said. “I was like, `Man, I’ve got nothing. There’s nothing in my way.’ I didn’t mind the rain. It was a good test.”

Toronto’s Rebecca Lee-Bentham carded a 73.

Brooke Henderson opened with a 75 in her first LPGA Tour start as a professional. The 17-year-old Smiths Falls, Ont. native won the Monday qualifying tournament to earn a spot in the field. She won a Suncoast Series event last week in Florida in her pro debut.

Alena Sharp of Hamilton, Ont. had a 77.

Michelle Wie shot 76.

SAN DIEGO – New season, same old story with Tiger Woods.

Only it’s no longer a happy tale.

For the third time in his last eight PGA Tour events, Woods got into a cart in the middle of his round and was driven to the parking lot because of back pain. Most troubling about Thursday in the Farmers Insurance Open was he spoke only a week ago of feeling “great” physically, and this was only his second event of the year.

He blamed this one on the weather, which caused his “glutes” to shut off.

Woods walked off the course after 11 holes on the North Course at Torrey Pines, citing tightness in his lower back from standing around for more than an hour in the cool Pacific air during a fog delay in the morning. He never looked comfortable, and Billy Horschel noticed it right away. Woods was reaching for his back at the turn. Horschel tried to help by picking up the tee for Woods on their 10th hole and the ball from the cup when Woods made birdie.

“I was ready to go,” Woods said. “I had a good warmup session the first time around. Then we stood out here and I got cold, and everything started deactivating again. And it’s frustrating that I just can’t stay activated. That’s just kind of the way it is.”

Woods now has gone 12 straight PGA Tour events without a top 10, dating to his runner-up finish in The Barclays in 2013 when back pain dropped him to his knees. This was his first round since a career-high 82 last week in the Phoenix Open to tie for last with a club pro and miss the cut by 12 shots.

“It’s tough to see a guy I look up to, a guy I consider a friend, to have issues with spasms,” Horschel said. “It’s tough to see him go, but he was in quite a bit of pain.”

Nicholas Thompson had an 8-under 64 on the North Course and had a one-shot lead over Michael Thompson when play was suspended by darkness. Brooks Koepka, coming off his victory in the Phoenix Open, had a 66 on the North. The best score on the tougher South Course belonged to Jhonnatan Vegas, who shot 67.

Dustin Johnson, playing for the first time since his six-month leave for “personal challenges,” holed out for eagle on No. 4 on the South Course as his lone highlight. He had five bogeys and was 2 over with one hole remaining.

But this day was all about Woods, which used to be typical at Torrey Pines because he has won the tournament seven times. Thursday was different. Several players came out of the scoring area and said, “What happened to Tiger?”

“It’s just my glutes are shutting off,” Woods said, sound more like a physical therapist than a 14-time major champion. “Then they don’t activate and then, hence, it goes into my lower back. So I tried to activate my glutes as best I could in between, but they never stayed activated.”

It has become a troubling trend for Woods. In his last six tournaments since back surgery last March, he has missed the cut three times, withdrawn twice and finished 69th in the British Open, his lowest 72-hole finish in a major.

“It’s just tough not seeing him have his best, whether it’s with his game or with his health,” said Rickie Fowler, who played in the group with him.

Woods was 2-over par through 11 holes and in a tie for 130th when he withdrew.

He will fall to his worst world ranking since before he won his first PGA Tour event as a 20-year-old in 1996, and he most likely will not qualify for a World Golf Championship for only the second time in his career. Woods is not expected to play again until the Honda Classic in three weeks. Doral is the following week. He did not indicate earlier in the week that he would add tournaments to his schedule ahead of the Masters, which is April 9-12.

The front nine at Torrey Pines was more of the same kind of golf he showed in the Phoenix Open last week, when he missed the cut by 12 shots with a short game that was shocking. On his first hole, the par-4 10th, Woods short-sided himself right of the green and he bladed his chip some 35 feet beyond the hole for a bogey.

He was in trouble again on the next hole, facing the same chip, and this time struck it perfectly. He chipped in to save par.

From there, it was a mixed bag of poor tee shots (he hit only one fairway) and poor iron shots. His tee shot on the par-3 12th wound up on a front tee box at the 13th hole. He missed the green long and right from the 13th fairway.

Woods made a 6-foot birdie on the 16th and he made birdie on the par-5 first hole. The last hole he completed was the most telling.

Horschel and Woods were in the right rough, about 70 yards short of the green. Horschel hit to about 12 feet on the collar of the green behind the hole. Woods went about a yard from a tee box on the next hole, the shot sailing over the heads of the gallery and down a slope. From there, he duffed his flop shot halfway up the hill, hit the next one too hard about 15 feet past the cup and two-putted for double bogey.

Woods won five times in 2013 and was PGA Tour player of the year. He has never looked further from the elite in golf as he does now. Woods took four months off to let his back fully heal and to regain his strength. On Thursday, he headed home early from Torrey Pines to a future as mysterious as fog.

On the Canadian front, Adam Hadwin was even par when play was suspended. Roger Sloan (73) and Mike Weir (74) each managed to complete their opening-rounds.