I’m more explosive and I’m only going to get better

He’s back, but while Tiger Woods has returned to a major championship leaderboard, the 14-time major winner believes he still has so much more |potential to be unleashed.

Woods played his first round in a major in 11 months yesterday at Royal Liverpool as The Open got under way at Hoylake and despite some rust with back-to-back bogeys at the first and second holes, the American showed no ill effects of the back surgery he underwent in March and forced him to miss the Masters and US Open.

Far from it. An opening three- under-par 69 that finished in style with a back-nine, six-hole stretch that featured five birdies at the cost of just one bogey, leaves Woods starting today’s second round just three shots back on Rory McIlroy’s clubhouse lead but still looking to improve.