Tiger Woods shot an opening seven-under-par 65 at the HSBC Champions tournament here on Thursday to lie one shot off the three-way lead held by Australian Peter O'Malley, England's Nick Dougherty and Paul Lawrie of Scotland.
A dropped shot on his last hole of the day cost the 10-time major winner his spot atop the leaderboard alongside the trio, who all carded bogey-free 64s at the five-million-dollar 2006 European Tour season-opener.
Lying alongside Woods after also shooting 65s around Shanghai's 7,143-yard course at Sheshan International Golf Club were David Howell, South Korea's KJ Choi and Dutchman Roland-Jan Derksen.
Reigning US Open champion Michael Campbell and Englishman Kenneth Ferrie were a shot further back at six under par.
World number two Vijay Singh, Paul Casey, Ian Poulter, Thomas Bjorn, Asian number one Thongchai Jaidee of Thailand and China's top golfer Zhang Lianwei were among eight players at five under par, three off the lead.
However, Colin Montgomerie, the newly crowned European number one who was playing alongside Woods and Zhang, shot a disappointing two-over-par 74.
FIRST ROUND SCORES:
64 - Nick Dougherty (ENG), Peter O'Malley (AUS), Paul Lawrie (SCO)
65 - David Howell (ENG), Robert-Jan Derksen (NLD), Tiger Woods (USA), K J Choi (KOR)
66 - Michael Campbell (NZL), Kenneth Ferrie (ENG)
67 - Nick O'Hern (AUS), Thongchai Jaidee (THA), Thomas Bjorn (DEN), Vijay Singh (FIJ), Thaworn Wiratchant (THA), Zhang Lian-Wei (CHN), Ian Poulter (ENG), Paul Casey (ENG)
68 - Simon Wakefield (ENG), Richard Lee (NZL), Charl Schwartzel (RSA), John Bickerton (ENG)
69 - Titch Moore (RSA), Padraig Harrington (IRL), Arjun Atwal (IND), Peter Hanson (SWE), Henrik Stenson (SWE), Terry Pilkadaris (AUS), Scott Strange (AUS)
70 - Prayad Marksaeng (THA), Thomas Levet (FRA), Euan Walters (AUS), Miguel Angel Jimenez (ESP), Lee Westwood (ENG), Emanuele Canonica (ITA), Niclas Fasth (SWE), Graeme McDowell (IRE), Gonzalo Fdez-Castano (ESP), Jean-Francois Remesy (FRA)
71 - Craig Parry (AUS), Lu Wei-Chih (TPE), Richard Green (AUS), Steven Bowditch (AUS), Wang Ter-Chang (TPE)
72 - Chinarat Phadungsil (THA), Liang Wen-Chong (CHN), Maarten Lafeber (NLD), Thomas Aiken (RSA), Lu Wen-Teh (TPE), Adam Le Vesconte (AUS), Steve Webster (ENG)
73 - Li Chao (CHN), Richard Sterne (RSA), Paul Mcginley (IRL), Barry Lane (ENG), Jyoti Randhawa (IND), Stephen Dodd (WAL), Wu Wei-Huang (CHN), Sandy Lyle (SCO)
74 - Marc Cayeux (ZIM), Colin Montgomerie (SCO), Raphael Jacquelin (FRA), Joakim Backstrom (SWE)
75 - Neil Cheetham (ENG), Yuan Hao (CHN)
76 - Paul Broadhurst (ENG), Marc Warren (SCO)
77 - Huang Yong-Huan (CHN), Bradley Dredge (WAL)
78 - Shang Lei (CHN), Mikael Lundberg (SWE), Hu Mu (CHN)
79 - Brett Rumford (AUS), Qiu Zhi-Feng (CHN)
RTD - Kim Felton (AUS).
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