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Andy Nesbitt

Tiger Woods came so close to getting a hole-in-one at the Masters and golf fans went nuts

After spending the past few days testing his body and working on his game, Tiger Woods is playing in the first round of the Masters at Augusta National.

And you know what? He’s playing pretty darn well in his first tournament back since his car crash last year.

Tiger had a birdie putt on the fifth hole that should have gone in. Instead, it went in the cup and popped out as he walked to the hole ready to celebrate.

Then on the very next hole he almost got a hole-in-one. Check out this shot on the par-3 sixth hole:

That moved Tiger to 1-under on his round.

Twitter went nuts:

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