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After a difficult year recovering from a potential career-ending car accident, Tiger Woods is playing golf again and competing in The Masters.
Tiger Woods returns to his long-awaited action at The Masters with an eventful opening round 71, making his first competitive start in more than 16 months.
Woods has been attending a top-level event for the first time since playing at the Augusta Nationals in November 2020, this week’s event is an eagerly anticipated comeback after a career-threatening injury in a serious car accident last February.
The 15-time main champion showed a glimpse of his great best as he mixed three birdies with two bogies on opening day, 30 minutes late due to bad weather, leaving Woods behind early club house leader Cameron Smith in three strokes.
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Tiger Woods has started his 2022 Masters and fans are flocking to the first tee to see his tee shots.
Woods recovered from a wide opening drive and finished the green short with his vision to make a 10-foot hole to level the first, the five-time Masters champion lost the bird’s eye view from 20 feet in the next-five and edged for an equal in the third. Putting two from.
The 46-year-old continued his purs race to the fourth and next, where his 15-foot birdie effort spread at the last minute, before his T-shot went into the tap-in range in the par-three. Under equal for his round.
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Tiger Woods made his first birdie of the 2022 Masters with an incredible tee shot at the Par3 Sixth Hole in Augusta
Woods made a fantastic up-down save from a bunker on the seventh but dropped a shot in the next five, where two weak chip shots for the first bogie of the tournament followed a two-put from 10 feet.
The former World No. 1 pulled his shot into the tree in the ninth, but shook the green just outside the box to avoid a shot, as teammate Joaquin Niemann posted a hole-out eagle from the fairway to reach the front corner.
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Joaquin Niemann was hole out on the 9th to take the lead at The Masters
Woods constantly climbs up and down the putting surface to start his back nine with the purse and sets a two-put birdie from 25 feet with a great approach to the par-three 12th par-five and adds another. Taking him back to the red figures.
Following a loose chip and a Miss Per-save attempt for a great approach from Pine to Green on the 14th, Woods was also unable to take advantage of the next Per-Five, although he made a huge roar. Augusta sponsors a 30-foot birdie holly on the 16th.
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Check out Tiger Woods’ long-range birdie put hole on the 16th!
Woods equalized in the 17th minute and made his second shot about 70 yards shorter than Green, making an improbable save at the last minute, rolling from 10 feet to keep in touch with the early lead.
Smith’s eventful opening round 68 included two double-bogies, with two separate blasts of four birdies extending five-hole Australian – one of six players who could finish the week as the world number one – at the top of the leaderboards.
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