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Tiger Woods and Vaughn Taylor posted matching 6-under 65s to share the 18-hole lead at The Barclays, the first event in the PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup. Ryan Palmer, Brian Gay and Adam Scott sit one shot back.

Tiger Woods posted a 6-under 65 on Thursday in his sixth start at The Barclays. His previous-best round at The Barclays was a second-round 66 in 2001. It is his best round on the PGA TOUR since a third-round 62 at the 2009 BMW Championship.

Woods’ 65 is his best round of the season (66, R3, U.S. Open) and snaps a streak of 11 consecutive rounds in the 70s (dating to the second round of the British Open). It is just his second sub-70 round in his last 18 rounds and his seventh overall in 2010 (out of 34).

This represents the 24th time Tiger Woods has opened up a PGA TOUR event with a round of 65 or better. In the previous 23, he has gone on to win 10 times and finish inside the top five 17 times.

Prior to Thursday, the last time Tiger Woods held the lead in a PGA TOUR event was the second round of THE TOUR Championship in 2009 (finished 2nd), the longest stretch between leads of his career. His last first-round lead came at the 2009 PGA Championship (finished 2nd). In all, he is 13 of 25 when holding at least a share of the first-round lead.

Woods is currently No. 112 on the FedExCup points list. He will need between a 50th  and 57th-place finish this week to move into the top 100 and advance to next week’s Deutsche Bank Championship.

Tiger Woods has progressed with each start at The Barclays, missing the cut as an amateur in 1994, followed by T43 (1997), T16 (2001), T13 (2003) and T2 (2009) finishes.

In his two starts in a PGA TOUR or TOUR co-sanctioned event in New Jersey, Woods finished T4 at the 2005 PGA Championship at Baltusrol GC in Springfield, N.J., and T2 last year at Liberty National. Should he win The Barclays in 2010, New Jersey will become the 17th different state in which he has won a PGA TOUR event.

The Barclays is one of only three PGA TOUR events in which Woods has made at least three starts yet failed to record a victory (Northern Trust Open – 11 starts, Waste Management Phoenix Open – 3 starts).  It is also the only PGA TOUR Playoffs event that he hasn’t won.

Most wins in PGA TOUR Playoff events:
3 – Tiger Woods
2 – Steve Stricker, Camilo Villegas, Vijay Singh, Phil Mickelson
1 – Heath Slocum