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Jon: a fox news alert, and tiger woods' own statement is now confirming the alert we brought you just a moment ago, tiger woods will return to professional golf at the masters tournament to be held at the augusta national golf club in april. he says the masters is where i won my first major, that was in 1997. and i view this tournament with great respect. after a long and necessary time away from the game, i feel like i'm ready to start my season at augusta. he also goes on to say, i've undergone almost two months of in-patient therapy, and i am continuing -- well, i'm getting ahead of myself ...

Most respectful, knowledgeable. these are people that are in intoo the golf side of the story, not the tabloid side of the story. again, there will not be signs and banners along the fairways, you know, saying tiger woods is a punch line or saying things that are going to make him feel uncomfortable, and i think the third thing from a purely golf standpoint, he knows this course like the back of his hand. he's won four times. they haven't changed the course, so it'll be fairly easy to get ready and basically walk right into the season's first major. jon: is it good for golf? >> tremendous for ...

Past year alone. here's what he was told golf.com. he says, i didn't think about it. in the course of the last year, he changed his number five times. the last time he did it, i said man, you change your phone number more than i change underwear. interesting. tiger is seen working with swing coach hank haney, working out by his house in time for a run at the masters next month much the word is, though, he could be playing at arnold palmer's tournament in a couple of weeks. and now, there's word that his caddie, long time caddie steve williams who spoke out from new zealand and said he was mad ...

Georgian olympic officials say they will make a concerted effort to support the sport of luge in this country. they don't want this tragedy to end what has been one of their strongest traditions, alex? >> stephanie gosk, thank you so much. we're going to bring you more coverage a few minutes, live coverage of the olympic winter games beginning at noon eastern, 9:00 a.m. pacific time here on msnbc saturday. let's go now to the fallout today from the tiger woods' statement. it was a sincere show of regret or part of a carefully orchestrated pr campaign? tiger woods offered the public 13 minu...

With his wife, appearing alongside him at his news conference, so, it should be interesting to watch, as this semi presidential event unfolds. martha: thank you so much. james rosen reporting, from washington, as we all sort of get ready to witness this events, whatever it turns out to be. and, what will come after this statement, many are wondering if he'll apologize to his fans, for his actions, return to the game any time soon as james is mentioning, and david ducek is the deputy editor of golf-come and has followed -- golf.com and there is sort of a -- an assumption that nothing changed ab...