Welcome to the Clubhouse with Shane Bacon.

I am your host, Shane Bacon, and yes, that noise you hear is everybody rushing to DVR,

the opening round of the Hero World Challenge, 18 players in the field.

One of them is a 40-year-old Tiger Woods, and he is the 898th ranked player in the world.

Yet he will be the story,

not just of this week and this month in the golf world and the rest of this year.

He will be the main talking point on this podcast.

Paul Asinger back, and he talks with me about Tiger Woods.

I think every question I asked him was about Tiger Woods besides the last one.

So always great to get inside from somebody like Paul Asinger who looks at golf completely different than really anybody

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Swingjuice.com right now. And I've mentioned Tiger Woods return.

He gets going on Thursday. He tees up at noon Eastern alongside Patrick Reed, which I love that

pairing, a guy that has mirrored Tiger, not just in dress, but really in intensity on the

golf course. Maybe he doesn't have the resume, but I think Patrick Reed and Tiger will have a lot of

fun between the ropes. I mean, all the eyes will be on that. We will see not just how he plays,

but what he does around the greens, how he does with the putting stroke. There's a lot of things

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