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The scoreboard behind the eighth green ?a his 17th hole ?a showed him tied for 71st at 1 over. Woods poured inside a 6-foot birdie putt, then hit a shot that covered the flag around the ninth hole and spun back to approximately 10 feet for one more birdie.

"I really didn't have it today," Woods said. "But I scored. That's something I'm able to remove from the round. I understand I putted a whole lot better today. I finally got putts to the hole, knowning that was form of the goal today, not leave one putt short."

Woods said his game turned Titleist 910 D2 Driver around at what looked being his low point.

After missing birdie putts inside 8 feet on three of his previous holes, he took good thing about a tee shot that hit a spectator right with the fourth fairway having a shot into 6 feet for birdie. Then, he pulled his tee shot into the water about the par-5 fifth ?a the pin was cut all the way to the correct ?a and took double bogey to fall to 1 over.

His next tee shot sent the gallery scrambling ?the first to emerge from the way, then to find it. Woods carved his approach through the rough over a couple of palm trees and simply through the green, chipping weakly to six feet but making the par putt.

"I figured something out in the end, the past four holes, after the tee shot I hit on 6," he explained. "Unfortunately, i had to spend that long to work out. But once I was thinking against each other, I hit good quality shots coming in."

Nevertheless, in contrast to the rest of the field, he has his work cut out for him around the weekend.

Woods played in the easier morning conditions, when the water on just about every hole at PGA National doesn't look as daunting. He had a 68 with a day Mizuno MP-69 Irons when Brian Harman carried out with a course-record 61 after a par around the par-5 18th hole.

Three other players, including Graeme McDowell, tied the prior record of 64 Friday before Harman finished up the morning session.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) ?a Defending champion Bubba Watson and past major winners David Toms, Graeme McDowell and Ernie Els are the early set of players devoted to the 2010 Zurich Classic of the latest Orleans. Els, a two-time U.S. Open champion and British Open winner, is going to be playing in New Orleans for the first time since 2002.

"Ernie is the sort of marquee player we now have targeted this coming year," said Fore!Kids Foundation CEO Steve Harvey. "He has received some discount golf clubs success throughout New Orleans (third in 2001), and his game is perfectly suited to the TPC Louisiana course."

Watson, 33, returns April 26-29 to shield the title he won in the playoff against Webb Simpson last year. He previously his best season in 2011 with two victories and more than $3 million in earnings.