Con7_0: The greatest comeback has to be when Henrik Larsson broke his leg in 1998 and went on to have an amazing career!

Spudlud: Guernsey v Jersey in a junior golf match. Me 9 h’cap v Jersey lad off 2 who was also picked for men’s team and had gained a scholarship to USA. 1 down after the 1st and thinking I’m gonna get tonked here after putting my tee shot in th gorse. Finished all square !

Darren: When Bobby Boucher turned at half time in the Bourbon Bowl and guided the Mud Dogs to victory.

Ha! Certainly brought a chuckle from me there, Darren. Some high quality H20.

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Keep an eye out for 22-year-old Englishman Harry Ellis, who gets under way in the next few minutes.

Ellis won last year's Amateur Championship final at Sandwich, earning a place at The Open at Royal Birkdale the following month and a berth in this year's Masters and US Open.

"I've seen that very few amateurs have done well here over the years, it usually takes that period of time to get to know the course, but I believe in my ability and I think I can definitely play well here," said Ellis, who played Augusta several times during his final year of a sport management degree at Florida State University.

Since Sergio Garcia finished in a tie for 38th in 1999, Italy's Matteo Manassero and France's Romain Langasque are the only other amateur champions to play all four rounds of the Masters.

It's a perfect start to the 2018 Masters for American Ryan Moore.

The 35-year-old, who recorded his best finish at Augusta last year when he tied for ninth, has just opened with birdie, birdie.

Not bad, not bad.

Nice! How much would this pair set you back? Some impressive signature penning from legends Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus, too...

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And there have been some cautionary words this week. From the man himself.

"I have four rounds to play so let's just kind of slow down," said Woods, who has finished outside of the top-20 on just four of his 20 Masters appearances.

"I think that one of the greatest comebacks in all of sport is the gentleman who won here, Mr Ben Hogan. I mean, he got hit by a bus and came back and won major championships.

"The pain he had to endure, the things he had to do just to play and just how hard it was for him to walk, and he ended up walking 36 holes (in one day) and winning a US Open. , external

"That's one of the greatest comebacks there is, and it happens to be in our sport."

It's just over one-and-a-half hours until Tiger time, and the hype at Augusta couldn't rise much higher - wait until he actually takes to the tee...

We're asking for your greatest sporting comebacks, as plenty (mostly American journalists) are feverishly building up Woods' return as potentially THE BEST EVER.

Woods doesn't even rate is as the best comeback in golf...

Former champion Ian Woosnam's tournament has got under way with a bogey at the first.

The Welshman won his only major at Augusta back in 1991, but 27 years later he's carded an opening-hole five.

Another former champion is just about to get started. Jose María Olazabal - who collected the Green Jacket in 1994 and 1999 - is taking to the first tee box.

It's perhaps a little premature (it's most definitely very premature) but many are speculating should Tiger Woods win the Masters after a three-year absence from the tournament, and a decade on since his last major victory, it would rate as one of sport's greatest comebacks.

Now we'll get to Tiger a little later... first we want to know YOUR greatest sporting comebacks, either on a personal level or those you've witnessed in the elite arena.

So get in touch via Twitter using #bbcgolf or text 81111.

We've got the tournament's first birdie!

A cracking start to the 2018 Masters for Austin Cook, who's down in three on the opening par-four.

Not a bad way to begin your first Masters for the 27-year-old American.

OK, here are your early groupings already under way...

12:45: Gary Player (SA), Jack Nicklaus (US) - honorary starters

13:30: A Cook (US), T Potter Jr. (US), W Bryan (US)

13:41: I Woosnam (Wal), R Moore (US), J Vegas (Ven)

And coming next...

13:52: M Weir (Can), B Steele (US) M Parziale (US)*

14:03: JM Olazabal (Spa), K Chappell (US), D Frittelli (SA)

14:14: B DeChambeau (US), B Wiesberger (Aut), M Fitzpatrick (Eng)

14:25: M O'Meara (US), B Harman (US), H Ellis (Eng)*

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You've got to love the par-three contest, especially if your name is Tom Watson.The 68-year-old became the oldest winner of the traditional eve-of-Masters tournament by finishing on six under at the Augusta National on Wednesday.

Watson was playing with fellow legends Jack Nicklaus, 78, and Gary Player, 82, and came home one shot ahead of England's Tommy Fleetwood.

Fleetwood will not be too disgruntled because no player has won the par-three event and the Masters in the same year.

"It's the magic of the putter - everything has gone in," said Watson.

If that previous link doesn't work for you, then here it is again... we're sure Jack and Gary 'GT' Nicklaus won't mind sharing this one over and over.

Here's 15-year-old Gary hitting a hole-in-one at the ninth hole in the Masters par-three contest, while caddying for his grandfather Jack in the traditional curtain-raiser at Augusta.

Six Green Jackets, 18 major wins, but what has been Jack Nicklaus' most memorable day on a golf course?

The one where his grandson hit a hole in one in the Masters par three contest...

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All that food talk is making me hungry, so how about some actual golf to whet the appetite?

The first groupings are making their way to the tee, with an all-American trio of Austin Cook, Ted Potter Jr and Wesley Bryan to kick things off from the first.

A meal of champions. Literally.

After the prestige of winning golf's most iconic tournament, slipping into the Green Jacket and cashing a cheque for a sum roughly equivalent of a 12-bedroom mansion (or 10-metre wide flat in London...), external, there is one more cherished honour for the winner: picking the pre-tournament menu for the following year's champions' dinner.

Thankfully the Spaniard plumped for something more fancy than bocadillos and churros...

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And what a top table it was in the Augusta clubhouse. How many of these former champions can you name?

A whopping slice of Angela Garcia's Tres Leches Cake for the first one to do the clean sweep...

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It doesn't seem five minutes since Danny Willett was slipping the Green Jacket over Sergio Garcia's shoulders, the Spaniard beaming after the first major win of his career.

Who could blame him. It was a special moment, perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime win, and Garcia has certainly enjoyed the buzz returning to Augusta as a Masters winner brings.

Anyone for a champions' dinner?

Gary Player has just got this year's Masters under way, followed to the tee box by Jack Nicklaus.

"It hurts," says Jack as he bends down to place his ball on the tee, before nonchalantly popping one down the fairway in the morning Augusta sunshine.

A knowing nod from Player. Let the games begin...

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Ahhh, the pristine fairways and manicured greens of Augusta National. It can only mean one thing, the Masters.

What a tournament it promises to be. The world's best hitting form just in time for the year's first major with a field as open as it has been in recent memory, those who have both flirted with the Green Jacket and watched it slip away desperate to ink their name into this weekend's narrative.

And then there's a Tiger lurking in the azaleas... sit tight, 2018's got the making of a classic.

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