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Tiger Woods makes his official 2020 PGA Tour debut on Thursday at the Farmers Insurance Open, but not before a video of him hitting golf balls on the Torrey Pines range made its way around Golf Twitter on Wednesday.
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In the 26-second compilation, Woods is seen—and heard—hitting 56 shots. Sorry, make that absolutely FLUSHING 56 shots. Here, we'll give you a few minutes to check it out because you're going to want to watch this PURE SESH more than once:
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Absolutely mesmerizing. Well done, PGA Tour. Who would have thought a video of someone practicing would get so much attention? Then again, they could film Tiger going through the buffet line at player dining and it would go viral.
Here were some of the best reactions to the video:
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Tiger Woods makes his first appearance of the year at Torrey Pines

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In the pantheon of bad ideas, dodgeball on skates is right up there alongside running with scissors. But don't tell that to the Carolina Hurricanes, who added another chapter to their fabled post-game “Storm Surge” celebrations on Tuesday with a bladed, ice-slicked version of the American schoolyard's ultimate equalizer. Bold move, Cotton. Let's see how it worked out for them . . .
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On Tuesday, the MLB announced its 2020 Hall of Fame inductees. It was a short list, topped by Derek Jeter, falling a solitary vote shy unanimity, and one of the bigger upsets in Cooperstown memory: Larry Walker, who jumped from 54.5% of the vote in 2019 to just over the fabled 75% threshold in 2020, the 10th and final year of his eligibility. The Rockies right fielder—long dinged by voters for spending much of his career punching holes in the already thin Coors Field ozone—had done the seemingly impossible and he accepted the honor with grace, humility, and a SpongeBob Shirt…
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But while Walker might be self-effacing, calling himself the “B-side” to Jeter's “Despacito,” the 2009 Canadian Lumberjack Hall of Fame inductee (a real thing, look it up) deserves to have his face forever immortalized in Cooperstown for this moment a..

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