NASSAU, Bahamas – Everyone is watching, everyone is curious, and Jordan Spieth had the perfect view of Tiger Woods for his return to golf.
Spieth was on the 17th green and looked across a narrow pond to the ninth tee at Albany Golf Club, where Woods stood over his tee shot during the Wednesday pro-am. He saw the swing but lost sight of the ball in the glare of the tropical sun.
“Where did it go?” Spieth said as he tried to gauge where the ball might land. “Not in the fairway.”
He looked again.
“Whoa! There it is – WAY down there,” he said.
The shots and score don’t count until Thursday at the Hero World Challenge with an 18-man field, small but strong. Woods is playing for the first time in 465 days. The expectations have rarely been this varied. The interest is as high as ever.
Woods last played on Aug. 23, 2015, when he closed with a 70 at the Wyndham Championship to fall out of contention and tie for 10th. Two back surgeries followed, leaving him so debilitated at times that he wondered if he would ever play.
He tees off at noon with Patrick Reed.
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