AUGUSTA, Ga. — After a long, often chaotic first part of the week, the 86th Masters gets underway today with as much anticipation as one can remember a major championship carrying. Much of that obviously revolves around Tiger Woods teeing it up for the first time since his horrific car accident in February 2021, and he’s taken almost all of the oxygen out of August National for the last three days. However, there are plenty of other storylines that will begin to unfold starting Thursday morning.
Chief among those is Rory McIlroy’s bid for his first Masters and the elusive career grand slam. Asked about this Wednesday, his answer was tremendous:”I love Augusta National. I love the Masters. I’ve had wonderful times here and not so wonderful times. But I keep coming back every year, and I’ll keep coming back as long as they’ll let me.” That’s how many people feel about the Masters, and it’s likely that one more name — perhaps Collin Morikawa, Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler, Viktor Hovland, Justin Thomas or McIlroy himself — will this year be added to the list of folks who will be able to keep coming back forever.
Watch the 2022 Masters streaming now with Masters Live as we follow the best golfers in the world throughout Augusta National with Featured Groups, check in at the famed Amen Corner and see leaders round the turn on Holes 15 & 16. Watch live for free on desktop and mobile via CBSSports.com and CBS Sports App. Also available on Paramount+.
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Tiger seems to be waving at it off the tee more than I would have thought. That swing on No. 7 looked pretty wipey and it ends up in the second cut way out to the right.
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Tiger Woods’ strong start continues
After a safe par-par-par-par-par start to Round 1 at the Masters, Tiger Woods is in the red at Augusta National with a birdie on the par-3 sixth. Had a brilliant shot into the green that nearly dropped and rewarded himself with a tap-in birdie. Puts him T3 on the leaderboard right now, which is just one stroke off leaders Talor Gooch and Harry Higgs.
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After power lipping a birdie on No. 5, Tiger sticks it on No. 6 to 2 feet for birdie. An extraordinary shot, and Tiger is about to be one stroke back of the lead.
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Yes.
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Tiger makes par at the fourth hole after a nice two putt. On through the difficult stretch on the first nine.
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Tiger’s swing on the par-3 4th hole looked better, but he’s still struggling a bit with distance control. If he can work those kinks out, he can perhaps put together a nice round today.
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Another par on No. 3 for Tiger, and he just doesn’t look very crisp. Again, this is not unexpected from somebody who has not played competitive golf in over 500 days, but it has not been encouraging if you came in believing he could win the golf tournament.
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I’m into this.
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Tiger with a knockdown iron off the tee on the par-4 third hole. Stings it down there within spitting distance on the 350-yard hole. Interesting approach. We’ll likely see a lot of guys today going for it, just as we saw with Joaquin Niemann in the same group.
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