Golf fans will see plenty of Tiger Woods at next week's Presidents Cup, with the American team captain hinting he may play more than the minimum two matches in Melbourne.
Sources inside the 15-time Major winner's camp suggest he will play up to four matches at Royal Melbourne.
Those appearances are believed to be Thursday's four-ball, Friday foursomes and Saturday morning four-ball, before all players contest Sunday singles.
The US PGA Tour, which runs the biennial teams event, tweaked the rules for this edition and reduced the minimum number of matches, outside the singles, from two to one.
Some feared Woods, who missed much of the 2019 US PGA Tour season with injury, would only play the mandatory two.
But Woods has shown flashes of his brilliant best this year, winning a fifth Masters green jacket in April and the US Tour's recent Zozo Championship in Japan, and he believed Woods has a green light to play as much as he wants.
The soon-to-be 44-year-old is currently in contention at his charity's event in the Bahamas - the Hero World Challenge.
But International team captain Ernie Els is prepared for any number of matches Woods chooses to play.
"I can't worry about what they're doing, I'm worried about what we're doing," Els said at the Australian Open.
"If he plays a lot, he plays a lot - it doesn't really change anything. It's one point per match and that's what we're focused on."
Woods and the American team will leave the Bahamas on Saturday night, arriving in Australia on Monday morning.
The tournament began a day earlier than usual to accommodate golfers travelling to Australia, with the field featuring all but one member of the 12-player US team to compete at Royal Melbourne.
Asked by reporters how many matches he would play, Woods joked: "Yeah, I'm playing a minimum of two. Does that help you?
"We have gameplans for next week. We've got guys that haven't played.
"DJ [Dustin Johnson] is coming off an injury, a surgery. We're going to take it day by day, see how guys feel.
"We're going to communicate with one another and work through it."
Woods equalled the US PGA Tour's winning record with his 82nd title in Japan and said arthroscopic surgery on his knee in August had improved his mobility.
"I can drive the ball a little bit better, because I can rotate," Woods said. "I can putt the ball better, because I can get down and read putts again."
Woods began the second round of the Hero, six shots behind overnight leaders Patrick Reed and Gary Woodland.
His six-under-par 66 matched Reed and Jon Rahm for the day's low score and left him in a share of fifth place with Justin Thomas (69) and Rickie Fowler (69).
He's six shots behind Reed, who holds the outright lead after the second round at the Albany Golf Club.
