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Tiger Woods is two under par after super front nine and poor back at Genesis Invitational

LOS ANGELES - For Tiger Woods, golf became a game of inches.

Woods eagled the first hole at Riviera on Thursday by sinking a putt that was laser-measured at 24 feet, 8 inches - the two jersey numbers of fallen Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant.

Later, he birdied the eighth hole, one marked with a purple-and-gold flag.

"It's ironic, isn't it?" Woods said after his two-under-par 69

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