18 photos of Tiger Woods playing a practice round at Augusta National on Monday

Tiger Woods played in front of a huge crowd Monday at Augusta.

Tiger Woods is taking us on a very fun and special ride this week at Augusta National, which will hopefully end with him teeing it up Thursday when the Masters begins.

On Monday we got to watch him hitting balls on the range for a while during the live TV coverage on CBS Sports Network and Golf Channel. He looked great hitting chips, bunker shots, irons and his driver. He was smiling. He was happy. It was just some tremendous television on a Monday afternoon.

Then once that was done he and Justin Thomas and Fred Couples made their way to the first tee for a practice round and the huge crowd waiting for them absolutely loved it.

Here are some photos from today’s practice round.