Tiger Woods didn’t take long to make his presence known during the 2018 Masters. Woods played a practice round with Fred Couples and Justin Thomas on Monday at Augusta National as weekend-like galleries lined the ropes to catch a glimpse of a healthy Woods for the first time at this course competitively since 2015.
They weren’t disappointed. Woods chipped in for eagle on his second hole of the day, the par-5 second, and went on to have a phenomenal round, according to Couples.
“He’s doing well,” Couples told reporters. “If you watched him play today, there’s not much of a back problem. He’s hitting it a long way, and it looks beautiful. Today wasn’t any different than it was 10 years ago when we played. It was pretty awesome.”
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Woods, who has never eagled the second hole in a competitive round, will tee it up again with Couples on Tuesday. Joining the group will be Phil Mickelson (!) and Thomas Pieters.
