Garcia,Goydos and Marino are tied for the lead after 18 holes

On a beautiful day over Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty 125 players started their quest for the coveted Fedex Cup on the first day of the first playoff.

Good scoring on a difficult golf course built on a tight piece of reclaimed land. Paul Goydos and Steve Marino posted 6 under par rounds 65 early on and only Sergio Garcia took the lead alone -7 but bogeyed his last hole (the 9th for him) to finish tie at -6.Garcia lost last year at The Barclays in a playoff with Vijay Singh. Charley Hoffman was tie for the lead at -6 coming to the 9(his last hole) but also bogeyed it to drop to -5,one shot off the lead,tie with Webb Simpson,Fredrik Jacobson and Heath Slocum. Padraig Harrington,Ian Poulter and David Toms are T 8 at -4.

Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson shot 1 under par 70.

Only 100 players will qualify on Sunday for the second playoff next week,the Deutsche Bank Championship at the TPC Boston.The top 42 of the current standings are safe,the rest have to do their best to keep their hopes alive for a shot at the $ 10 million prize. Tiger Woods announced today that he will play in Boston.

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