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Woods' return to the majors gets off to shaky start with 2 straight bogeys at Royal Liverpool
• HOYLAKE, England (AP) -- Tiger Woods is off to a shaky start in the British Open.
• Playing a major for the first time since back surgery, Woods looked rusty with bogeys on the first two holes at Royal Liverpool on Thursday.
• A warm, sunny morning with only a slight breeze led to plenty of numbers in the red. Spain's Sergio Garcia and Italy's Edoardo Molinari are at 3 under, with Erik Compton among those a shot back.
• Woods ran into trouble at the first hole when his approach shot caught one of the treacherous pot bunkers. His next shot scooted through the green and led to bogey.
• At No. 2, the three-time Open champion knocked a long putt about 6 feet past the hole, then missed the comebacker to take his score to 2 over.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Thursday, July 17, the 198th day of 2014. There are 167 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On July 17, 1944, during World War II, 320 men, two-thirds of them African-Americans, were killed when a pair of ammunition ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California.
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• On this date:
• In 1821, Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
• In 1918, Russia's Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.
• In 1936, the Spanish Civil War began as right-wing army generals launched a coup attempt against the Second Spanish Republic.
• In 1938, aviator Douglas Corrigan took off from New York, saying he was headed for California; he ended up in Ireland, supposedly by accident, earning the nickname (Continued on page 31)
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