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Wed 02 Feb 2009Woods aiming to take up where he left off
WGC-ACCENTURE MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP:TUCSON WAS bristling with more microphones and satellite dishes than cacti as Tiger Woods made his long-awaited reappearance at a packed press conference that began with a joke and ended with a statement of intent that will have sent a shiver down the spines of the other 63 hopefuls who will tee it up in the first round of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship today.
Golf has been waiting with bated breath for its crown prince to return from knee surgery and after 254 days, he kept his public waiting another 45 minutes as he put the finishing touches to his first practice round in suffocating heat at the 7,800-yard Ritz-Carlton Golf Club.
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