Woods announced last week that he will play in the World Golf Championship -Accenture Match-Play Championship in Arizona, which gets going Wednesday. It will be his first tournament since having reconstructive ACL surgery after winning the U.S. Open last June.<\/p>\n
Check out betED.com PGA Golf Betting Odds<\/strong><\/a> for the latest lines on all the players, including Woods, who’s retained his No. 1 world ranking despite the time off.<\/p>\n Brackets were decided on Monday and Woods, the defending champion and three-time winner of the WGC match-play event, will face World No. 64 Brendan Jones in the first round.<\/p>\n Woods will be playing his first competitive round since defeating Rocco Mediate in a thrilling playoff at the 2008 U.S. Open.<\/p>\n He is the No. 1 seed in the Bobby Jones bracket and has four other major champions in his bracket: ninth-seeded Retief Goosen, fifth-seed Mike Weir, 2006 champion and second-seeded Geoff Ogilvy and seventh-seed Trevor Immelman.<\/p>\n Sergio Garcia (Gary Player bracket), Padraig Harrington (Sam Snead) and Vijay Singh (Ben Hogan) are the other top seeds.<\/p>\n The 64-man WGC-Accenture Match Play field is determined by the world ranking; a player can be eliminated after one round. The brackets will be set Sunday and play begins next Wednesday at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club.<\/p>\n Woods played with long-time friend and neighbor John Cook, a member of the Champions Tour, last week and Cook said he liked what he saw in Woods’ game.<\/p>\n Woods has been recovering from anterior cruciate ligament surgery in his left knee. He had the procedure in late June, eight days after the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n That was Woods’ 14th major championship and 65th PGA Tour title.<\/p>\nbetED.com PGA Betting Odds.\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n
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