Who has played with Tiger at Augusta? Here's the list

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Stewart Cink has played more competitive rounds with Tiger Woods at Augusta National than any other player.

Matt Kuchar and K.J. Choi will be playing partners with Tiger Woods when he makes his return to the PGA TOUR in Thursday's first round of the Masters. They will need the ability to withstand an even greater amount of attention than even Woods normally gets when he tees it up for a major.

The spotlight, as you might imagine, will be intense.

Several players said they were willing to be Woods' partner, including defending British Open champion Stewart Cink.

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"You have to remember this -- at the Masters, playing with Tiger Woods is always a little different than it is anywhere else because there's always more of the people that want to see him play there than anywhere else," Cink said. "And so it's always a little bit different.

"This year, I don't expect it to be a whole lot different than other years just because it's always a little different. There will be more scrutiny and all that, but I'd be fine with it."

If anyone should know what it's like to play with Tiger at Augusta National, it's Cink, who has been paired with Tiger in six rounds at the Masters, including the first two rounds last year. Those six rounds are the most of any player on the PGA TOUR.

Still, Cink is in the minority when it comes to most of Tiger's partners at the Masters. More often than not, Woods has not been paired with an American, but with international players.

In fact, in Tiger's last four appearances at the Masters since his win in 2005, Cink and Phil Mickelson (final round in 2009) are the only two Americans he has been paired with. On the flip side, he's played with 11 different international players during that span.

Overall, Woods has played with 25 different international players compared to just 12 different Americans.

Here's a look at all of Tiger's playing partners at Augusta National since his first appearance as a pro in 1997.