DUBLIN, OHIO (AP) — Tiger Woods will be playing again today with the cut in question.

Woods, the defending champ, looked ordinary yesterday in the first round of the Memorial tournament, failing to make birdie on any of the par 5s in a round of 72. Beyond a few errant tee shots, he was off by some 30 and 40 feet with wedges on several holes.

“They’re perfect sand wedge numbers, but I can’t hit a sand wedge because it’s going to rip [spin],” said Woods, seven shots behind co-leaders Geoff Ogilvy, Rickie Fowler and Justin Rose. “I had to hit little wedges and I don’t have the feel for it yet. I hit terrible shots. That’s just the way it goes.”

It was the first time since 2004 that Woods failed to break par at the Memorial, which he has won four times.

Two shots off the lead was Phil Mickelson, who can go to No. 1 in the world with a victory at Muirfield Village, as long as Woods isn’t among the top four.

Woods went long of the first green for a bogey, and dropped another shot on the sixth when his approach from the left rough hit a sprinkler just short of the green and bounced over the putting surface and into the gallery.

Consecutive birdies around the turn brought him back to even as he headed to the par-5 11th, but with a wedge in hand, he went some 40 feet beyond the pin and had to make a 5-foot putt for par. He didn’t make birdie the rest of the day, and didn’t have that many good chances at them.

“If I take care of the par 5s,” he said, “I’m right there.”