tie for 10th at the Wyndham Championship on Aug. 23, 2015. There have been no issues with his back, and Woods said he has made a few changes with his swing and how much he works aw

NASSAU, Bahamas -- Tiger Woods saved par from the dunes with a shot so good that two spectators ran over and scooped up sand for a souvenir.It also served as motivation Friday at the Hero World Challenge. The tee shot on the par-3 eighth that landed next to a bush was so bad that Woods said he told caddie Joe LaCava after his par putt, Im not dropping a shot.And he didnt.Woods capped a bogey-free round with an even more unlikely par save on the 16th hole. What stood out on a balmy day at Albany was a seven-hole stretch in the middle of the round in which he never really missed a shot. It led to enough birdies for a 7-under 65, leaving him six shots behind and in a tie for ninth in the 17-man field.His golf was as good as it was Thursday, his first competition in 15 months, only this time he eliminated the mistakes.I wanted to keep that card clean, Woods said. I dont know what it is about playing and competing, but keeping cards clean, theres something really special. And it feels pretty good about doing that.And he did it quickly, in just under three hours.Justin Rose, who opened with a 74, withdrew with back problems. That left Woods as a single, and when he realized there would not be much wind, he felt he could play just as well without a marker (typically the club pro) to get a feel for how various shots might be affected.He was on his own and moving in the right direction.The par save on No. 8 and a wedge to tap-in range on the No. 9 allowed him to make the turn in 33, just like Thursday. The difference was how he finished.After pounding a drive down with the wind at his back on the par-5 11th -- he had to carry a bunker 290 yards away -- he switch to a 5-iron to play away from a bunker to the right of the green, making sure he would have the right angle to the pin. It was right where he was aiming, a yard off the green, setting up an easy two-putt birdie. He followed that with a 6-iron to a foot for birdie on the 12th, a 10-foot birdie putt on the 14th and a two-putt birdie on the par-5 15th.He made seven birdies, but nothing brought out the emotion like a par.His tee shot on the 16th, where he made double bogey Thursday, took a wild hop into a bush in the sandy area. Enough of the ball was showing that Woods tried to hit 6-iron to the front bunker, but it came out heavy into more of the waste area. The next shot was well beyond the hole.The par putt dropped on its final turn, and Woods thrust his fist toward the cup and slapped the face of his putter.Two more pars, and he was done and feeling much better about the next two days.I really had it dialed in both ways, he said. I was shaping it both ways and I really had nice control of my (trajectory). That was the key. I was able to keep the ball down when I needed to and send it at times.Woods stayed out of golf following two back surgeries over the last three months of 2015, and he had not competed since a tie for 10th at the Wyndham Championship on Aug. 23, 2015. There have been no issues with his back, and Woods said he has made a few changes with his swing and how much he works away from golf.If he looks slimmer, he says he picked up an illness from his children over Thanksgiving. More relevant is that he said he no longer lifts as much weight or runs as he once did. Woods said he used to run 30 miles a week in his early days on tour.Ive had four knee surgeries, three backs. My bodys been through it, he said.As for the weights?I dont load the spine like I used to, he said. Im trying to do other things to gain strength. I dont have any problem with suppleness and flexibility, but I also need to have stability.As for his swing, Woods said he has made subtle changes to alleviate the strain on his back.Ive tried to go back and look at and do some stuff that I used to do as a junior that I did naturally, he said.Another change is that he is at Albany without a swing coach. Woods began working with Chris Como in November 2014, but the work is done in what Woods described as training camps.Well have little windows where well practice when I have time to do it, Woods said. Then Ill shut it down, Ill work on my short game in the backyard, chip and putt, and then well have another training camp a week or two later.The real measure might not come until early next year, when he gets more tournaments and different -- and colder -- conditions. Friday was just another round, and a step forward. Adidas Ultra Boost Sale .25 million option on reliever Jose Veras. Adidas Ultra Boost Wholesale . 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OAKLAND, Calif. -- The NBA Executive VP of Basketball Operations, Kiki VanDeWeghe, clarified the unnatural act rule Sunday, saying the league isnt targeting Draymond Green because rules are for every player.The NBA is addressing this matter a day after the?Golden State Warriors?All-Star?lashed out at the league office, questioning its qualifications of judging and penalizing him for where his flailing legs happen to land.Rules are discussed and agreed upon at the competition committee meetings consisting of owners, general managers, coaches, player reps and referee representatives, VanDeWeghe said. They go through the same procedures for all rule changes.We noticed last year that more unnatural acts, such as arm flails and leg kicks, [occurred] for drawing attention of the referee. The competition committee looked at it and wanted to keep the rules fair for all teams, as well as make sure the health and safety of players were not jeopardized. We looked at it very carefully to take it out the game. Rules have to be applied to every player the same. There are no exceptions.Green has been penalized on multiple occasions over the past couple of years for his high kicks that tend to make contact to an opposing players face or groin region.He received a Flagrant 1 in the Warriors loss to the Houston Rockets?on Thursday after his foot made contact with the face of James Harden. Two days later, Green made his displeasure with the penalty known.I just laugh at it, because its funny how you can tell me how I get hit and how my body is supposed to react, Green said. I didnt know the people in the league office were that smart when it came to your body movement. Im not sure if they took kinesiology and all this stuff for their positions to kind of tell you how yyour body is going to react when you get hit at certain positions.ddddddddddddOr you go up and you got guys that jump to the ceiling, and Im sure a lot of these people that make these rules cant touch the rim. Yet they tell you [that] you are way up there in the air and which way your body [is supposed to react]. I dont really understand that. Thats like me going in there and telling them, Hey, you did something on this paperwork in here wrong. Like, I dont know what your paperwork looks like. It is what it is. I think they made the rule and make your rule. Like, I dont care.VanDeWeghe did not fine Green for his comments.We take our players opinions and comments very seriously, as evident by the fact that we have a player rep from the union at our meetings, VanDeWeghe said. When players speak, we want to understand and explain the process. We try to minimize the risk of injury and do whatever we can do to take health and safety seriously.Green made a point to bring up Harden in his comments, saying the All-Star guard gets away with extending his arms in traffic to draw fouls. Green said thats an unnatural act.VanDeWeghe disagrees.The big difference becomes safety and the potential of injuring somebody, he said. Thats the big difference. Players embellish contact to draw attention. Its gotten better since instituting the flopping rule on defense. But if a player flails his arms and strikes a player in the face, then thats a cause for concern. Its not one particular player or two. The competition committee spent a lot of time looking at this, and we decided that if the move doesnt justify the movement, then we have to act. 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