Tiger Woods paired with Masters champ Danny Willett in Dubai

Tiger Woods has taken his talents to the Duabi Desert Classic this week for some Euro Tour fun

Tiger Woods will tee it up this week at the Dubai Desert Classic for his second event of 2017. Woods, who was mildly delayed by protesters in Los Angeles when he caught a commercial flight (!), according to Bob Harig of ESPN, has not played in this event since 2014. He won it twice in 2006 and 2008.

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— Bob Harig (@BobHarig) January 31, 2017

Woods will be paired with Masters champion Danny Willett and England's Matthew Fitzpatrick for the first two rounds in Dubai. Because of the time difference, watching this will be difficult here in the United States, but it will be on television.

Here are the first two tee times for Woods this week.

Day	Time (ET)	Round	Hole
Wednesday, February 1	11:15 p.m.	1	No. 10
Friday, February 3	3:35 a.m.	2	No. 1

Willett said on Tuesday he has actually never met Woods.

"Ryder Cup was brief walking past but before that, you know, you see him to say hello but nothing really," said Willett. "My first memories of him are chipping in at 16 on Augusta. I can't remember what year that was. I was kind of really getting into golf then. And you see that, it was almost like the perfect like (advertisement) for that tournament. I remember that shot that he played over millions and millions of times, him and [caddie] Stevie [Williams] going crazy and the cameras shaking and the ball just dropping in.

Willett also noted that Woods playing Dubai is a big deal for their tour.

"When Rory is here or when Tiger is here, it makes it that little bit extra special," said Willett. "It's a shame obviously Rory is out with his injury, but if you had had Rory and Tiger, this would have been a massive week early on in the season. But to see Tiger playing last week, I watched pretty much every shot of his two rounds last week and it was just great seeing him back in action.

"And then to have him here this week, I think it's great for The European Tour. It's great for Dubai. Obviously it's a place he's coming back to; Tiger doesn't play events just because he wants to play them. He plays events because he knows that he's got a good chance when he turns up. He's played well around this golf course and he's got some good memories."

That he does.