This Week In Golf: Jonny Leighfield’s regular look at the biggest stories in professional golf, tournament previews and other key details you need to know.
Although there are no pro events on the women’s side and there is a break on the Asian Tour, fans still have their choice of three big tournaments to choose from otherwise.
And, in keeping with ‘silly season’, one of those is an unofficial PGA Tour event with a limited field and a $5 million purse. Yet, to add further silliness, it’s not even the most lucrative tournament in pro golf thanks to one of two concurrent DP World Tour events.
So, to try and make sense of it all, we’ve listed some of the biggest stories this week in golf below.
TIGER WOODS IS BACK (HOSTING ONLY)
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For the first time in several months, Tiger Woods spoke publicly ahead of this week’s Hero World Challenge, which he hosts at Albany Golf Club in The Bahamas.
Although nowhere near competing again, Woods – who says recovery from a third surgery in the past 13 months has been “slow” – will be on site through the tournament and is set to pass the trophy across to this year’s champion.
The 49-year-old, who turns 50 on December 30, has admitted he won’t be playing competitively any time soon and would not be drawn on where exactly he plans to compete once he’s back fit.
He did, however, mention that he was looking forward to taking the Genesis Invitational back to Riviera Country Club next February, which could well be the next time we hear from the 15-time Major winner.
THREE STARS PLAYING THREE DIFFERENT EVENTS
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As I mentioned earlier, it’s a strange week in men’s pro golf. You may have seen Elliott Heath’s excellent opinion piece asking if pro golf is shooting itself in the foot recently.
Basically, there are three pretty big events all going on over the same days. Although, somewhat helpfully, they’re not all on at exactly the same time.
First, the Australian Open (featuring Rory McIlroy) is taking place at Royal Melbourne Golf Club for the Stonehaven Cup – an event that will award the winner spots in both The…
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