NOW I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES..

FROM BACK PAGE anyone who has had a lower back fusion that can swing the club as fast as I can swing it. That’s incredible.

“I went from a person who really had a hard time getting up, walking around, sitting down, anything, to now swinging the club at 129 mph. That is a miracle, isn’t it?”

The world No.103 claimed yesterday he has not felt so good for “probably seven, eight years” as he prepares to tee up in Augusta tomorrow.

“It’s been a tough road – the pain of just sitting there and the amount of times that I have fallen because my leg didn’t work or I just had to lay on the ground for extended periods of time.

“Those are some really dark, dark times,” admitted Woods.

He won his fourth Green Jacket in 2005 and said: “I really hope I’m playing my best golf again. This is a tournament where experience does help a lot, understanding how to play this particular course.” 4.59pm & 2.03pm Angel Cabrera (Arg), Ross Fisher (Eng), Jimmy Walker (US) 5.10pm & 2.14pm Fred Couples (US), Haotong Li (Chn), (a) Joaquin Niemann (Chi) 5.32pm & 2.25pm Larry Mize (US), Russell Henley (US), Shubhankar Sharma (Ind) 5.43pm & 2.36pm Tony Finau (US), Bernhard Langer (Ger), Yuta Ikeda (Jpn) 5.54pm & 2.47pm Charl Schwartzel (Rsa), Webb Simpson (US), (a) Yuxin Lin (Chn) 6.05pm & 2.58pm Kevin Kisner (US), Thomas Pieters (Bel), Xander Schauffele (US) 6.16pm & 3.09pm Gary Woodland (US), Yusaku Miyazato (Jpn), Tyrrell Hatton (Eng) 6.27pm & 3.31pm Phil Mickelson (US), Rickie Fowler (US), Matt Kuchar (US) 6.38pm & 3.42pm Adam Scott (Aus), Rory McIlroy (NIrl), Jon Rahm (Spa) 6.49pm & 3.53pm Jordan Spieth (US), Alex Noren (Swe), Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 7.00pm & 4.04pm Justin Rose (Eng), Dustin Johnson (US), Rafael Cabrera-Bello (Spa)