Tag: Tiger Woods

By Tony Jimenez

ISTANBUL | Mon Nov 4, 2013 3:20pm EST

(Reuters) – Tiger Woods features in a strokeplay event for the first time in six weeks at the Turkish Airlines Open starting on Thursday and will herald his return by taking part in a spectacular Bosphorus Bridge photoshoot.

The world number one is due to arrive in Istanbul by helicopter on Tuesday before becoming the first golfer to hit balls from East to West on the iconic bridge that separates the continents of Europe and Asia.

Woods will then travel down to the south-western city of Antalya on the Mediterranean coast to take on Europe’s finest in the $7 million tournament at the Montgomerie Maxx Royal course.

The 14-times major winner also played in last year’s invitational eight-man World Golf Final in Turkey but this season marks the first time the country has hosted an official European Tour event.

“I had a great time during my first visit to Turkey… and I’m looking forward to playing there once again,” Woods said in a news release.

He has not played a strokeplay competition since finishing tied for 22nd place at the Tour Championship in Atlanta in September, the final event of the U.S. PGA Tour’s money-spinning FedExCup series.

Among the 37-year-old American’s title rivals this week will be U.S. Open champion and World Golf Final winner Justin Rose.

“It’s going to be fun to play in Turkey again,” said the 33-year-old Briton. “It’s great for Turkey to have an event in the Final Series.”

This week’s tournament is the penultimate event in the inaugural Final Series, the European Tour’s new FedExCup equivalent.

Rose is third in the Race To Dubai money list on 1.87 million euros ($2.53 million), behind Graeme McDowell (2.05 million) and FedExCup winner Henrik Stenson (2.20 million) with just the Turkish Open and DP World Tour Championship in Dubai to come.

Ian Poulter, fourth on the list with earnings of 1.66 million euros, will look to go one better in Antalya than his second-place finish to American Dustin Johnson in last week’s WGC-Champions Tournament in Shanghai.

Former world number one Lee Westwood also features in the 78-man lineup this week but Rory McIlroy, Luke Donald and Sergio Garcia are absentees.

First prize is worth 848,930 euros.

(Editing by Ken Ferris)

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Tiger Woods to finish year at Turkey, Malaysia and California events

Posted at 4:05 PM by Mike Walker | Categories: Tiger Woods

The PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs and the Ryder Cup are over, but Tiger Woods goes on.

On Friday, Woods announced his schedule for the remainder of 2012 on TigerWoods.com. Next week, Woods is playing in the Turkish Airlines World Golf Final in Turkey. The week after that — Oct. 16-18 — he is hosting an amateur event at Pebble Beach. Then Woods goes back overseas for the CIMB Classic in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Oct. 25-28. He will conclude his season as usual at the World Challenge event he hosts at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, Calif., Nov. 28-Dec. 2.

Though Woods does not mention it on his website, he is also scheduled to play Rory McIlroy in a one-day exhibition match in China on Oct. 29.

Here are some more details on Woods’s schedule from TigerWoods.com:

Turkey:

Tiger Woods begins a busy international schedule next week when he competes in the $5.2 million Turkish Airlines World Golf Final, Tuesday through Friday, at the PGA Sultan Course at the Antalya Golf Club in Belek, Antalya.

In Tuesday and Wednesday’s group stage, Woods will compete in three match-play rounds, with the winners and runners-up of each group advancing to Thursday’s semifinals in advance of Friday’s final.

Tiger will be joined in the eight-man field by top-ranked Rory McIlroy, Charl Schwartzel, Lee Westwood, Hunter Mahan, Justin Rose, Matt Kuchar and Webb Simpson. The tournament will be televised to more than 50 countries.

Turkey will also host the Turkish Airlines Ladies Open and the World Amateur Team Championship, being held this week. The latter has been played for more than 50 years, and the winning trophy is named after President Dwight Eisenhower. The event has been conducted in more than 20 countries, and Woods was part of the winning U.S. squad in Paris in 1994.

Pebble Beach:

Tiger will return to the U.S. the following week to host the Tiger Woods Invitational presented by USLI, Oct. 16-18, in Pebble Beach, Calif. Amateur participants will play three of the best courses on the Monterey Peninsula and will also be treated to a special exhibition and dinner hosted by Woods. All proceeds from this private golf event support the college-access programs of the Tiger Woods Foundation.

Malaysia:

Next up for Tiger is the third annual CIMB Classic in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Oct. 25-28, at the Mines Resort and Golf Club. Woods is one of 36 committed PGA Tour players who will join 12 others in pursuit of $6.1 million in prize money. Other notable entrants include Nick Watney, Jason Dufner, Bill Haas, Rickie Fowler, Carl Pettersson, John Huh, Kyle Stanley and defending champion Bo Van Pelt.

World Challenge:

Woods will conclude his 2012 season by hosting the 14th annual World Challenge, Nov. 28-Dec. 2, at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Last year, Tiger birdied the last two holes to edge Zach Johnson and win the event for the fifth time.

The elite 18-player field is expected to include a significant number of U.S. Ryder Cup team members. Proceeds benefit the Tiger Woods Foundation. Tiger always donates his earnings from this event to the Foundation, and to date he has given more than $8.7 million.

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