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Friday, December 2, 2016
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Golf
Tiger Woods returns with mixed bag and a 73
By DOUG FERGUSON
Associated Press
NASSAU, Bahamas —
Not only did Tiger Woods
return to golf Thursday, he
returned to being Tiger.
Just not for long.
Hardly looking like a
player who had not competed
in 466 days, Woods ran off
three straight birdies with a
variety of shots and was tied
for the lead in the Hero World
Challenge as he approached
the turn.
Three shots in the bushes,
one shot in the water and
a few fits of anger sent him
toward the bottom of the
pack. A pair of double bogeys
over the final three holes
ruined an otherwise impres-
sive return, and Woods shot
40 on the back nine at Albany
Golf Club and had to settle
for a 1-over 73.
He was in 17th place in
the 18-man field. Only Justin
Rose had a higher score.
Even so, Woods has
reason to be encouraged.
After taking off 15 months
to recover from two back
surgeries, he felt no pain or
limitations. His misses were
not big, just costly. And he
was playing again.
“It could have been some-
thing really good,” Woods
said. “I got off to a nice, solid
start and made a few mistakes
there. I didn’t play the par 5s
very well in the middle part of
the round and consequently,
got it going the wrong way.
... But all in all, I feel pretty
good. I’m looking forward to
another three more days.”
He was nine shots behind
J.B. Holmes, who opened
with an 8-under 64 and
had a one-shot lead over
Hideki Matsuyama, with
U.S. Open champion Dustin
Johnson at 66.
Curiosity was greater than
expectations for Woods, who
was coming off the longest
hiatus of his golfing life.
Plagued by back problems
since 2013 when he was No.
1 in the world, he finally shut
it down after tying for 10th in
the Wyndham Championship
on Aug. 23, 2015, and then
going through two back
surgeries.
AP Photo/Lynne Sladky
Tiger Woods wipes his face as he prepares to putt on
the 10th hole during the first round at the Hero World
Challenge golf tournament, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, in
Nassau, Bahamas. Woods is one-over-par for the round.
He was in so much pain
last year there were times he
wondered he had played his
last tournament.
With high anticipation, he
tugged his opening tee shot
into the rough on the left edge
of a bunker and gouged that out
to 15 feet for par. Just like that,
it all started to feel as though
he had never been away.
“By the time I hit my tee
shot on the second hole, I had
already gotten into the flow
of the round,” Woods said.
“That’s something that for
me, when I’ve taken layoffs
and taken breaks, it’s how
quickly can I find the feel of
the round? To not play in 15,
16 months and get it on the
second hole is nice.”
He also knew that with
only a stiff tropical wind
behind him on three of the
par 5s, scores would be low.
For a short time, Woods
seemed up to the task. He hit
a 5-iron from 231 yards just
over the green and passed
his first test, a 30-yard pitch-
and-run and that checked
slightly and rolled out to a
few feet from the hole for
a birdie . He faced a more
difficult pitch up the slope on
the next hole and hit a chunk-
and-run to 3 feet.
His confidence kept
building — the flop shot
from 40 yards to 5 feet for
birdie on the par-5 sixth, the
wedge to 5 feet for birdie on
the seventh, and a 6-iron he
struck so well on the par-3
eighth that he was asking for
perfection. “One yard! One
yard!” he said as the ball was
in the air, and then settled 2
feet away.
At that point he was tied
with Holmes.
But he flubbed a pitch
on the par-5 ninth and made
bogey. Two holes later, he
flared an iron from the sandy
waste area into a bush and
had to take a penalty shot,
making another bogey on
a par 5. Woods was still
hanging around in the middle
of the pack when he hit 7-iron
to 12 feet on the par-5 15th
and two-putted for birdie.
And then it all fell apart.
Froom the middle of the
16th fairway, he pulled his
approach and dropped the
club as it sailed into a bush.
He had to play that backward
to the fairway, pitched a
wedge some 30 feet by and
made double bogey. And
then on the 18th, he pulled
his driver and immediately
slammed the club into the turf
as he watched for the splash.
His pitch hit the pin — it
was too strong, anyway —
and he missed from 20 feet
for another bogey.
“Just made some really
silly mistakes, mistakes
I don’t normally make,”
Woods said. “But I haven’t
played in a while. Unfortu-
nately, I made those mistakes.
I can clean that up. We’ve
got three more days. Wind
is supposed to pump on the
weekend, and I’ll be playing
a little bit better.”
MLB
Dodgers, Latin American players losers in MLB labor deal
By RONALD BLUM
Associated Press
NEW YORK — The
Los Angeles Dodgers, Latin
American teenagers and
Cubans approaching their
mid-20s were losers in base-
ball’s new labor contract,
which includes stiffer penal-
ties for high-spending teams
and a hard cap on signing
bonuses for international
amateurs.
The Oakland Athletics
also came up short, with
the team’s ability to receive
revenue-sharing money to
be trimmed in stages and
eliminated in 2020.
Mid-tier free agents were
winners, with management
agreeing teams will no longer
forfeit first-round draft picks
for signing players who turn
down qualifying offers. But
top-tier free agents could
wind up as losers if potential
bidders back off because of
the steeper tax for exceeding
the payroll threshold.
Players and owners
agreed to the five-year
deal Wednesday, subject
to ratification, and details
were provided by several
people familiar with the
negotiations who spoke
on condition of anonymity
because the sides had not yet
released specifics.
The luxury tax threshold,
which was $178 million in
2011 and $189 million this
year, will rise to $210 million
by 2021. That represents an
18 percent rise over a decade,
well below the rate of increase
in baseball’s revenue.
And the highest tax
bracket will rise, with two
levels of new surtaxes.
The Dodgers’ luxury-tax
payroll this year was about
$256 million, down from a
record $297 million last year,
leaving them on track to owe
a tax of approximately $34
million — a 50 percent rate
assesses on the amount over
the threshold.
If the new rules were fully
implemented this year, they
would pay $41,825,000: a
base tax of $30.5 million (50
percent of the amount above
$195 million), a surtax of
$2.4 million (12 percent of
the $20 million-$40 million
amount over the threshold)
and a second surtax of
$8,925,000 (42.5 percent
of the amount above $40
million).
However, the new rules
transition in next year and
don’t have a full impact until
2018.
While management failed
to gain the international draft
it wanted, players did agree
to a hard cap on international
signings, which eliminates
deals such as Yoan Monca-
da’s $31.5 million signing
bonus with Boston in 2015.
The signing pool limit will be
$4.75 million for the signing
period that begins July 2. The
pool rises to $5.25 million
for teams with competitive
balance round A draft picks
and $5.75 million for clubs
with round B selections.
Eight teams have spent
more than $4.75 million in
the current signing season,
led by San Diego at $34.6
million (plus a $31.3 million
tax) and Atlanta at $15.6
million (plus an $11.1
million tax). Because of the
new limits, teams that had
tentative deals in place with
15-year-old Latin players
that were set to be finalized
next summer could be forced
to back out.
Players who left Cuba
also are impacted by the
changes. Under the old rules,
Cubans didn’t count against
a team’s signing bonus pool
if they were at least 23 and
played in a professional
league for at least five
seasons. Because of that,
Lourdes Gourriel waited
until after his 23rd birthday
last month to finalize a $22
million, seven-year contract
with Toronto.
Under the new deal, the
age is raised to 25 — which
would reduce the amount
spent on Cubans who are
younger.
Oakland has been a
special case when it comes
to baseball’s revenue-sharing
plan. The old collective
bargaining
agreement
disqualified teams in the
15 largest markets from
receiving revenue sharing
funds but also stated the A’s
will remain eligible as long
as their ballpark situation
was unresolved. The new
deal cuts the team’s revenue
share receipts to 75 percent
next year, 50 percent in
2018 and 25 percent in 2019
before eliminating it entirely.
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