**Tiger Woods has been paired with Matt Kuchar and KJ Choi for the first two rounds of the Masters at Augusta.**They will form the 31st and penultimate grouping on Thursday with a late tee-time of 1742 BST, returning on Friday to start at 1435 BST.
World number one Woods has not played since November last year.
He has spent much of the intervening time out of the public gaze following a string of damaging revelations about his private life.
But the moment he announced three weeks ago that he was making his comeback at Augusta he was installed as favourite for a tournament he has won four times.
Woods faced both the fans and the press on Monday but is still trying to put his family life back together, wife Elin will not be in attendance at Augusta.
On Monday, he also denied he had ever used human growth hormone or performance-enhancing drugs and promised to give his “full co-operation” to the federal authorities investigating controversial doctor Anthony Galea.
Galea first treated Woods during his eight-month recovery from knee surgery in 2008-09, and again when he tore his Achilles tendon 16 months ago.
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