Tiger Woods looked healthy crushing golf shots at a kids clinic

Tiger Woods was the talk of the golf world on Thursday --- and it had nothing to do with anything that actually happened on the course.  

However, while the world was eating up salacious details of Tiger's personal life, the ironic thing was that Woods actually was on the course, where he served as an instructor at a junior invitational tournament in South Carolina.

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There, patrons took video of Tiger, and, well, he kind of looks like the Tiger of old.

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Woods -- who missed the Masters last month -- hasn't played a full PGA Tour event since last August.

But it looks like he might be closer to returning to the course than any of us realized.