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Tiger Woods’s Return Puts His Back in the Spotlight Again

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The charity golf exhibition with Rory McIlroy and friends was a nice opening act, but the sport’s headliner returns this weekend. On Sunday, Tiger Woods will play for the first time in three months, ending his longest layoff since recovering from spinal fusion surgery in 2017. Woods and Phil Mickelson will reprise their match-play showdown of 2018, this time to benefit coronavirus relief efforts and in pairings with the former N.F.L. rivals Peyton Manning and Tom Brady.