Farmers Insurance Open 2017: Live updates, scores, highlights, and more from Torrey Pines

He’s baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack.

Well, he was back. But now it counts for something.

After nearly an 18-month layoff from big time golf, Tiger Woods makes his return to PGA Tour events that count for something Thursday at the Farmers Insurance Open. He’ll take center stage at a course he’s dominated on over the course of his career -- Torrey Pines — where he’s won this event seven times & captured his last major title on one healthy leg at the 2008 US Open.

Of course, Big Cat made his return to competitive golf back in early December at his own Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. But that’s not considered a full-status PGA Tour event with only 18 spots delegated to top players & pals of Woods throughout the world. It feels more like your local Sunday Skins game than a big time tournament.

That, um, won’t be the case this week at Torrey Pines. Woods will be paired alongside the No. 1 and 3 players in the world & new TaylorMade comrades Jason Day and Dustin Johnson. It’ll be the group that dominates the week’s TV coverage and a fairly comfortable one for Woods to return to big time action — Day is among his closest friends on Tour, if not the world.

Expectations for the Big Cat this week vary from “disaster” to “another Torrey title.” We took our best shot at predicting all the different ways this could go, but no one knows after a 521-day layoff from the PGA Tour. We’ll update the week’s developments and results here all week long.

Well, he looked fine on the range.

But that’s the range, where Tiger always seems to look like he’s going to conquer the world. His first drive immediately sailed way right, rattled around in a tree, and led to an opening bogey.

It didn’t get much better after that, either, as Tiger scuffled to an opening round 76. It came undone mostly on the back nine, where Woods posted a 39 despite carding all three of his birdies on that side.

Three red numbers and still a 39 on the inward 9? That’s how ugly it was on the rest of the holes, which featured a 5-over stretch from Nos. 12 to 15. The biggest damage came at the 15th, where Tiger completely smother-hooked a drive off the entire course and made a double bogey.

The 4-over 76 came on the tougher South Course, but this wasn’t an overall pretty day for the Big Cat. Read a full recap here.

After 18 holes, your leader is Justin Rose, who is in the house at 7-under. Full leaderboard here.

All times EST:

No. 1 Tee

12:00 p.m.: Chad Campbell, Steve Marino, Sung Kang

12:10 p.m.: Robert Garrigus, Tim Wilkinson, Patton Kizzire

12:20 p.m.: Hudson Swafford, Pat Perez, Charles Howell III

12:30 p.m.: Brian Stuard, J.J. Henry, Nick Watney

12:40 p.m.: Cameron Smith, Kevin Tway, Ryan Brehm

12:50 p.m.: Nicholas Lindheim, Brett Drewitt, Tyler Aldridge

1:00 p.m.: Louis Oosthuizen, Zac Blair, Blayne Barber​

1:10 p.m.: Gary Woodland, Roberto Castro, Byeong Hun An​

1:20 p.m.: Bryce Molder, Will MacKenzie, Gonzalo Fdez-Castano

1:30 p.m.: Brandt Snedeker, Justin Rose, Brooks Koepka​

1:40 p.m.: Jimmy Walker, Rickie Fowler, Phil Mickelson

1:50 p.m.: Ryan Blaum, Seamus Power, J.J. Spaun Miguel

2:00 p.m.: Wesley Bryan, Xander Schauffele, Aaron Wise

No. 10 Tee

12:00 p.m.: Camilo Villegas, Ben Crane, Patrick Rodgers

12:10 p.m.: John Senden, Derek Fathauer, Soren Kjeldsen

12:20 p.m.: Smylie Kaufman, Robert Streb, K.J. Choi

12:30 p.m.: Mackenzie Hughes, Rod Pampling, Billy Hurley III

12:40 p.m.: Angel Carballo, Sebastian Munoz, Beau Hossler

12:50 p.m.: Trey Mullinax, Zack Sucher, Steve Wheatcroft

1:00 p.m.: Kevin Streelman, Jonas Blixt, Willy Wilcox

1:10 p.m.: Martin Laird, Spencer Levin, John Peterson

1:20 p.m.: Shane Lowry, Nick Taylor, Paul Casey

1:30 p.m.: Greg Chalmers, Keegan Bradley, Stewart Cink

1:40 p.m.: Boo Weekley, Bud Cauley, Luke List

1:50 p.m.: Brandon Hagy, Grayson Murray, Donimic Bozzelli

2:00 p.m.: Whee Kim, Andrew Johnston, Brian Campbell

No. 1 Tee

12:00 p.m.: Lucas Glover, Tag Ridings, Kyle Reifers

12:10 p.m.: Scott Brown, Chad Collins, Andres Gonzales

12:20 p.m.: Billy Horschel, Hunter Mahan, Retief Goosen

12:30 p.m.: Tony Finau, Danny Lee, J.B. Holmes

12:40 p.m.: Brian Harman, Kyle Stanley, Tyrone Van Aswegen

12:50 p.m.: Bryson DeChambeau, Bobby Wyatt, Todd Baek

1:00 p.m.: Seung-Yul Noh, D.A. Points, Francesco Molinari

1:10 p.m.: Cameron Tringale, Harold Varner III, Jon Rahm

1:20 p.m.: James Hahn, Peter Malnati, Alex Cejka

1:30 p.m.: Charley Hoffman, Padraig Harrington, Rory Sabbatini

1:40 p.m.: Johnson Wagner, Graham DeLaet, Cameron Percy

1:50 p.m.: Jonathan Randolph, Cheng Tsung Pan, Henrik Norlander

2:00 p.m.: Brad Fritsch, Julian Etulain, J.T. Poston

No. 10 Tee

12:00 p.m.: Scott Stallings, Martin Flores, Brett Stegmaier

12:10 p.m.: Kevin Chappell, Jason Kokrak, Andrew Loupe

12:20 p.m.: Hideki Matsuyama, Daniel Berger, Emiliano Grillo

12:30 p.m.: Dustin Johnson, Jason Day, Tiger Woods

12:40 p.m.: Michael Thompson, Morgan Hoffmann, Jon Curran

12:50 p.m.: Ryan Armour, Ollie Schniederjans, Max Rottluff

1:00 p.m.: Marc Leishman, Stuart Appleby, Adam Hadwin

1:10 p.m.: Geoff Ogilvy, Harris English, Ryo Ishikawa

1:20 p.m.: Brendan Steele, Jhonattan Vegas, Troy Merritt

1:30 p.m.: Si Woo Kim, Aaron Baddeley, Steven Bowditch

1:40 p.m.: John Huh, Jamie Lovemark, Michael Kim

1:50 p.m.: Kelly Kraft, Rick Lamb, Brandon Stone

2:00 p.m.: Steven Alker, Richy Werenski, Chris Gilley