Solid start for Woods in Florida

Tiger Woods dug deep to avoid a repeat of his Quail Hollow horror show when the £6.2m (€7.2m) Players Championship, golf’s richest event, began at Sawgrass in Florida today.

Six days after the dreadful 79 which sent him crashing out by eight shots, Woods produced a mixture of the good, the bad and the ugly and yet somehow was two under par after 13 holes.