Masters golf 2022: When does Tiger Woods begin bid for glory? McIlroy, Rahm Thursday and Friday tee times, Augusta odds

Tiger Woods is due to play alongside 2010 Open champion Louis Oosthuizen and Los Angeles Open winner Joaquin Niemann as he begins his quest for a sixth Green Jacket at the 86th US Masters. Woods has been handed a morning tee time for the first round on Thursday with his group out at 10:34am (3:34pm BST) before resuming for the second round at 1:41pm (6:41pm BST) on Friday afternoon.

Ad/> The 15-time major winner will equal Jack Nicklaus' six wins around Augusta National between 1963 and 1986 if he can emerge triumphant on Sunday, but it is a miracle that 46-year-old Woods has managed to resume his professional career only 14 months after suffering life-threatening injuries in a car crash. Masters'I can win it' – Tiger eyes sixth Green Jacket after confirming plans for Masters return17 HOURS AGO The global sporting icon suffered open fractures to both the tibia and the fibula in his right leg after losing control of his vehicle outside of Los Angeles on 23 February 2021.

'I can win it' – Tiger eyes sixth Green Jacket after confirming plans for Masters return Mickelson to miss Masters for first time in 28 years He was rushed to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and subsequently transferred to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he spent three weeks and faced possible amputation. Woods – Masters champion in 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2019 – admits the prospect of resuming his gilded 26-year professional career had looked doomed after being consigned to a hospital bed for three months.

/> «Well, at that time I was still in a hospital bed, and I was out for the next three months,» he told a media conference on Tuesday. /> «To finally get out of that where I wasn't in a wheelchair or crutches and walking and still had more surgeries