Mcilroy Leads Birdie From Leaderboard

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Oakville, ON (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Canadian Tour announced eight dates for the 2012 season on Tuesday. The Canadian part of the schedule will kick off with the 30th playing of the Times Colonist Island Savings Open. That will be followed by the ATB Financial Classic and the Syncrude Boreal Open.

The Canadian Tour Championship will be contested at Scarboro Golf and Country Club in Toronto, which is celebrating its centennial in 2012.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Rory McIlroy and Robert Karlsson both fired rounds of five-under 67 on Thursday to share the opening- round lead of the Abu Dhabi Championship. Tiger Woods made his 2012 debut and played decently enough with a two-under 70. Woods, who ended his 2011 campaign with an unofficial win at the Chevron World Challenge, his first anywhere in two years, hit the ball well on Thursday, but the flat stick let him down.

Woods hit 10 of 14 fairways and 17 greens in regulation, but needed 35 putts in round one.

World No. 1 Luke Donald had a one-under 71 in his first outing of the year. Donald played with McIlroy, also making his first start of 2012, and Woods in round one and will again on Friday.

Perhaps the biggest surprise of Thursday's first round was the poor performance of the fourth-ranked player in the world.

The German has won this event three times with a runner-up finish in the last four years.

That's an amazing record, but McIlroy is no slouch at Abu Dhabi. He's tied for fifth, took third and finished second in his last three appearances at this event.

McIlroy dropped a shot at the 14th, then again at No. 17, but rebounded at the par-five 18th, despite hitting a tent with his second shot. The Northern Irishman got back to three-under par thanks to a short birdie putt at the par- five second.

McIlroy inched up the leaderboard late in his second nine. He knocked his tee ball inside four feet to set up a birdie at the par-three seventh, then chipped in for a birdie at the par-five eighth.

Karlsson also began on the 10th tee in round one, but he endured an up-and- down start. He traded two birdies and two bogeys over his first four holes, then parred his next three.

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•    Neck of the woods

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•    Thatt awesome moment when i surprise her with a rose with a birdie in it. she loved it. #priceless

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•    and all was silent in the hundred acre woods.

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•    Who's world is this? Its yours

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•    Singing "Collard Greens & Cornbread" - Fantasia :)

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•    Rory McIlroy's performance yesterday was an exhibition of scoring. Certainly not brilliant at times, but he got the most out of his round.

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•    Woods Back To Back....#ImFried

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•    Lil' Wayne- Neck Of The Woods

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•    My cup my cup.

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•    Ever find it interesting that pro golfers putt better for par than they do for birdie ...

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•    In de bus richting sneek, zometeen stage van 9 tot kwart over 5 en dan naar school om van half 6 tot 9 te helpen bij open dag! #drukdruk

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