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Injury-plagued Tiger Woods performed a quick exit from The Players Championship on Thursday - this, after international stars Lee Westwood and Rory McIlroy took a pass on what's called golf's fifth major.

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Scott, the betting co-favorite with Woods heading into the event, carded a three-under-par 69 on Thursday—a round that included golf's greatest rarity, a score of two on a par-five hole, known as an albatross.

Golfers Get Back to Golf in Australian Open John Paul Newport 2011

The sport will get a huge publicity bump Friday morning — the Golf Channel hopes to have camera shots of PGA Tour players as they watch Woods on TV — but the big question is how soon he starts playing again as he regularly raises golf's TV ratings by 50%.

Time is right to whet appetites with live Olympics 2010

If he wins, the world's 519th-ranked player will be golf's big story again.

Late-bloomer Barnes is blossoming at Open 2009

A win is a win, as the old saying goes, but anyone tempted to describe Tiger Woods' victory at the Chevron World Challenge on Sunday as anything other than a landmark moment in the arc of golf's broader narrative is seriously deluded.

Tiger Woods' Chevron win is a great story – but is he really back? 2011

European Pressphoto Agency Tiger Woods This is golf's biggest annual match-play tournament, a head-to-head single elimination knockout in which 64 players compete hole by hole.

Tip of the Day 2011

The winner of that match will face the winner of a contest between the poster boys for golf's "bomber" generation, Bubba Watson and JB Holmes.

Cruel hand Luke Donald ends Matteo Manassero's dream run 2011

You still see mobile phone conversations on the course, people moving while others are playing and plenty of other things that would probably not be tolerated in golf's older markets.

Finding Green Pastures in China Ron Gluckman 2011

His next opponent, however, is Jiménez, one of golf's freer spirits and a man who is unlikely to let the prospect of his first tournament victory in the United States bother him too much.

Cruel hand Luke Donald ends Matteo Manassero's dream run 2011

The response of golf's traditionalists, and indeed the tournament participants, is to play down such incidents, or at least argue that accentuating the negative is to demean the positive, by which they mean professional excellence of the players.

Solheim Cup needs great golf to add to a tradition of enmity and spite | Lawrence Donegan 2011