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NEW YORK -- Tiger Woods may not have won the Masters golf tournament, but his stirring return from injury was certainly a winner for the television networks following him.CBS' final round coverage of the venerable tourney on Sunday averaged 10.17 million viewers, the highest for any golf telecast since the corresponding day in 2019 — the last time Woods won the coveted green jacket, the Nielsen company said.ESPN's coverage of the first two rounds of the Masters averaged 3.3 million viewers, the most for its Master's coverage since 2018, the network said.ESPN's viewership peaked at 4.6 million just as Woods was finishing up his second round on Saturday, Nielsen said.CBS led the broadcast networks last week in prime time, averaging 4.2 million viewers. ABC had 3.6 million, NBC had 3 million, Fox had 1.7 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Ion Television had 1 million and Telemundo had 860,000.Fox News Channel led among the cable networks, averaging 2.32 million viewers. TBS had 1.52 million, TNT had 1.2 million, HGTV had 1.17 million and ESPN had 1.13 million.ABC's “World News Tonight” won the evening news ratings race, averaging 7.9 million for the week.

Tiger Woods is back! The golf legend played in his first professional golf tournament, the 2022 Masters, Thursday -- just 14 months after nearly losing his right leg in a car accident.The golf legend hit the green in an attempt to win his 16th major championship, sixth green jacket and 83rd PGA Tour event, and while he was not among the leaders after the morning session on Thursday, he entered the clubhouse T9 on the leaderboard after shooting a 1-under 71. Woods made par across his first five holes before scoring birdie on the sixth.

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Set your alarms, reminders or whatever for 3. 34pm on Thursday as that’s when Tiger Woods tees off in his opening round in the 86th Masters. The five-time winner, who is making a sensational return in the season’s opening major after his latest lengthy injury lay-off, has been paired with South African Louis Oosthuizen and Chile’s Joaquin Niemann.

READ MORE: Tiger Woods' Masters Thursday tee time confirmedBernhard Langer - 1986After claiming the first of his two green jackets, Langer became one of the first golfers to truly customise his meal with a sense of culture from his home country of Germany. Langer chose wiener schnitzel (breaded veal) and Black Forest cake as his meals. Sandy Lyle - 1989Following his only Masters title, the Scot decided to wear a kilt and truly introduce his colleagues to Scottish cuisine by serving Haggis.

Tiger Woods will play in this week’s Masters and feels he can win the event for a sixth time in his highly anticipated return to competition following a car crash last year that nearly resulted in doctors amputating his right leg.

Tiger Woods, just 14 months past a horrific car accident in Los Angeles that nearly cost him his leg, said Tuesday that he is aiming to play at this week’s The Masters tournament, which would mark the golf icon’s return to competitive play.