Woods faces Wise to open Match Play

AUSTIN, Texas

Tiger Woods is at another new golf course for a World Golf Championships event and faces another player he doesn’t know.

Woods, who arrived Monday and played nine holes at Austin Country Club, opens the Dell Technologies Match Play against Aaron Wise, an NCAA champion from Oregon and the PGA Tour rookie of the year.

Wise will be the 21st player who had never played with Woods since he returned from back surgeries that kept him out of golf for most of two years.

Woods, the No. 13 seed, also has Patrick Cantlay and Brandt Snedeker in his group.

The only other time Woods played against Cantlay was in the 2011 Frys.com Open when Cantlay was a sophomore at UCLA.

Associated Press