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Tiger Woods two back at Dunlop Phoenix

Tiger Woods overcame a slow start and shot a 3-under 67 Thursday to sit two strokes off the lead after the first round of the Dunlop Phoenix.

Shingo Katayama of Japan, the 2000 champion, shot a 65 in the breeze at Phoenix Country Club and was one shot ahead of Spaniard Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano. Woods, the two-time defending champion, shared third place in the with Ireland's Padraig Harrington and Toshi Izawa, Satoru Hirota and Hisayuki Sasaki of Japan.

"I got a lot out of my round today," Woods said. "I didn't really hit it all that well starting out. I made some nice putts for par and also a couple for birdie, hung around and stayed very patient.

"The weather conditions changed quite a bit on the back nine and became a lot more difficult, so I'm very pleased to shoot 3-under."

Woods, who started his round at the 10th hole, birdied the 13th, 16th, 18th, third and ninth holes. He bogeyed the 12th and par-4 No. 7.

Woods finished second at the HSBC Champions tournament in China last week, ending a streak of six consecutive victories in stroke-play events.

65 Shingo Katayama

66 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa)

67 Tiger Woods (USA), Hisayuki Sasaki, Satoru Hirota, Toshimitsu Izawa, Padraig Harrington (Irl)

68 Keiichiro Fukabori

69 Greg Meyer (USA), Nobuhito Sato, Yoshikazu Haku

70 Tommy Nakajima, Chris Campbell (Aus), Scott Laycock (Aus), Hideki Kase, Shiv Kapur (Ind), Daisuke Maruyama, Wayne Perske (Aus), Hiroyuki Fujita

Hideto Tanihara, Azuma Yano, Ian Poulter (Eng), Takuya Taniguchi

71 Koumei Oda, Katsumasa Miyamoto, Shigeru Nonaka, Tomohiro Kondo

Toru Suzuki, Nozomi Kawahara

72 Ryoken Kawagishi, Jong-duk Kim (Sin), Wei-Tze Yeh (Tai), David Smail (Nzl), Tatsuhiko Takahashi, Toru Taniguchi

73 Yasuharu Imano, Katsuya Nakagawa, Steve Conran (Aus), Justin Rose (Eng), Ik-Je Chang (Kor), Ryuichi Oda, Makoto Inoue, Kiyoshi Maita, Yusaku Miyazato, Sk Ho (Kor), Keng-chi Lin (Tai), Hirofumi Miyase, Kaname Yokoo, Katsumune Imai, Mitsuhiro Tateyama, Yoshinobu Tsukada, Shinichi Yokota, Toshinori Muto, Tatsuya Mitsuhashi, Takashi Kanemoto, Jun Kikuchi

74 Shinichi Akiba, YE Yang, Nobuhiro Masuda, Mamo Osanai, Won Joon Lee (Aus), Thomas Bjorn (Den), Craig Jones (Aus), Kiyoshi Murota, Soushi Tajima

75 Yasuaki Takashima, Tadahiro Takayama, Tetsuji Hiratsuka, Brendan Jones (Aus), Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa)

76 Hidemichi Tanaka, Yong Jin-Shin, Katsuyoshi Tomori, Dinesh Chand (Fij), Joe Ozaki, Masashi Ozaki, Tatsuhiko Ichihara, Katsunori Kuwabara

77 David Howell (Eng), Takao Nogami

78 Tsuyoshi Yoneyama, Kenichi Kuboya

79 Yutaka Horinouchi

83 Teruo Sugihara