Tiger Woods makes equipment change heading to Riviera

LOS ANGELES — Tiger Woods has made two significant changes to his driver as he prepares for this week’s Genesis Open. Woods, who tees off at 10:22 a.m. Eastern on Thursday with Justin Thomas and Rory McIlroy, returned to a Matrix Ozik TP7HDe X-flex shaft that he last used in the 2015 Wyndham Championship.  “We could all see how bad I was driving it,� Woods said Tuesday in a news conference from Riviera Country Club, where he is playing for the first time since 2006. The more “stout� shaft is also complemented by a driver head change adding nearly a degree of loft to his TaylorMade M3. “It’s a shaft that I knew from years past, so when I picked it up again … I know how it feels and now how it