Tiger Woods says he is wary¹ of the reception he will receive when he returns to action at the Masters after almost five months away from the game.

老虎伍兹称，在远离赛场近五个月之后，他对大师赛上公众对他的评价表示紧张。

Woods said he had been 'living a lie'

Woods has not played since admitting multiple extra-marital（婚姻的） affairs but will resume² playing on 8 April at Augusta.

Asked about the possible reception, Woods told ESPN: "I don't know, I'm a little nervous. It would be nice to hear a couple of claps（故障，轻拍） here and there."

The world number one added he had been "living a lie".

The 14-time major champion gave brief interviews to ESPN（娱乐体育节目电视网） and the Golf Channel for the first time since his self-imposed exile³, telling ESPN: "I was doing a lot of things that hurt a lot of people.

"And stripping away（除去，揭掉） denial⁴ and rationalisation you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly.

"But then again, when you face it and you start conquering it and you start living up to it, the strength that I feel now... I've never felt that type of strength."

Woods did not discuss details about his affairs but said that "just one is enough and obviously that wasn't the case".

'I tried to stop and I couldn't stop, it was horrific. It was disgusting behaviour," he added.

"I hurt a lot of people, not just my wife. My friends, my colleagues, the public, kids who looked up to（尊敬） me.

"There were a lot of people that thought I was a different person and my actions were not according to that. That's why I had to apologise. I was so sorry for what I had done."

Woods has been receiving treatment at a rehab clinic and said he found that a difficult experience.

"It was really tough to look at yourself in a light you never want to look at yourself, that's pretty brutal⁵（残忍的，野蛮的） ," he said.

The 34-year-old's last tournament appearance was on 15 November - when he won the Australian Masters.

Less than a fortnight later he crashed his car outside his Florida home, an incident that led to revelations⁶ about his private life and an indefinite⁷ break from golf.

In February he made his first public appearance to apologise for his actions before announcing last week he would return to golf at Augusta, where he has won four titles.