Tiger Woods’ tee time, pairings for Hero World Challenge Round 4

This is your first and last chance to watch Tiger Woods play a Sunday round in 2016. After spending the entire year on the shelf rehabbing his back and his game, Tiger finally returned to the PGA Tour at this week’s Hero World Challenge, an event he hosts and that benefits his foundation.

It was, to put it mildly, a welcome sight and enormous boost for the game, especially during a dead and sleepy portion of the schedule. This is supposed to be the offseason. Golf is supposed to be off the radar in December, but here’s Tiger making everyone pay attention to his little game down in the Bahamas.

It was nice of Tiger to make a start before the end of the year, you know, make sure 2016 wasn’t a complete wash. And while he’s looked far better than expected, this will probably be it for awhile for the Big Cat. There’s really nothing left to even play in this year if he wanted to carry over the momentum and get more reps. We may see him play on the Euro Tour in the Middle East in January, and probably won’t see him on the PGA Tour until that final week of January at Torrey Pines.

So we’ll go another long stretch deprived of seeing Tiger try and get back. This is your last chance to take it all in and he will go off the first tee at 11:31 a.m. ET alongside Louis Oosthuizen. There are just 17 players in this field so the twosomes really move. The networks and tournament organizers don’t even budget in a full four hours for the round, with runaway leader Hideki Matusyama teeing off at 12:15 p.m. and the broadcast scheduled to end at 4 p.m.

Expect Woods and King Louis to cruise around this Albany course and be done around 3:15 p.m., leaving you plenty of time to flip back over and see the end of the crappy NFL game you want to watch. Unless there’s some unforeseen implosion on Sunday, this return can only be characterized as a success. Tiger has kept it altogether and even Jordan Spieth said on Saturday that if not for the rust, Woods would be leading his own event. There will probably be another birdie streak on Sunday to leave us breathless and wanting more right away, but we’ll have to wait until January. So enjoy this final round.

Here’s the full tee sheet for Sunday’s final round:

10:53 a.m.: Emiliano Grillo

10:58 a.m.: Patrick Reed, Brooks Koepka

11:09 a.m.: Zach Johnson, Russell Knox

11:20 a.m.: Jimmy Walker, Bubba Watson

11:31 a.m.: Louis Oosthuizen, Tiger Woods

11:42 a.m.: Jordan Spieth, J.B. Holmes

11:53 a.m.: Matt Kuchar, Rickie Fowler

12:04 p.m.: Dustin Johnson, Brandt Snedeker

12:15 p.m.: Hideki Matsuyama, Henrik Stenson