Tiger Woods at Hero World Challenge 2016: Saturday Leaderboard Score, Reaction

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Tiger Woods put together a bogey-free round of 65 on Friday at the Hero World Challenge, and he followed that clean performance by shooting two under during third-round play at Albany Golf & Beach Resort in New Providence, Bahamas, on Saturday. 

Here’s an overview of Woods’ scorecard from Round 3: 

As a result, the 40-year-old wrapped up moving day in the top 10 but well behind leader Hideki Matsuyama: 

Woods started at six under following Friday’s 65, and he figured to use that momentum as a springboard to continue his ascent up the leaderboard. 

That’s exactly what he did in the early going. 

The 14-time major champion burst out of the gates with a birdie on No. 1, and he parlayed a strong tee shot on the par-three second into two birdies in as many holes, as Golf Channel’s Tiger Tracker documented on Twitter: 

Approaches at 1 & 2 probably a combined 8 feet from the hole. Another short putt, another birdie. -2 today & -8 overall. BOOM.

— GC Tiger Tracker (@GCTigerTracker) December 3, 2016

Tiger’s birdie train rolled on through No. 3, when his approach came up left of the green and he got up-and-down to move to nine under for the round, as the PGA Tour showed on Twitter:

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