Tiger Woods has yet to announce when he’ll return to competitive golf from his ongoing indefinite leave, but it appears the former world No. 1 expects to be game-ready for the tournament of champions that will kick off the 2015 Open Championship.
Tiger Woods commits to play in British Open Champion Golfers’ Challenge
Tiger Woods will reportedly play in the R&A version of the Legends Tour when he tees it up in the 2015 Champion Golfers’ Challenge.
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In the first news about Woods’ future schedule since he went on sabbatical, the R&A announced on Tuesday that Tiger planned to join defending British Open champ Rory McIlroy, 2013 Open winner Phil Mickelson, 2015 Ryder Cup captain and 2011 British victor Darren Clarke, and a panoply of other “pantheon of greats” who’ll tee it up in the four-hole Champion Golfers’ Challenge. The exhibition will take place on the Old Course at St. Andrews on July 15, ahead of this year’s Open Championship.
Two-time Open champ John Daly, who may or may note be fresh from one of those random PGA Tour drug tests, is also among those who accepted the invitation.
“We are looking forward to a wonderful celebration of the rich heritage of The Open at the Champion Golfers’ Challenge,” R&A chief executive Peter Dawson said about the legends who have committed to play the day before it gets real in Scotland.
Woods, who holds the golf world in thrall as he decides when to make his first professional appearance since withdrawing from last month’s Farmers Insurance Open, must decide by Friday at 5 p.m. ET whether he will tee it up next week at Bay Hill. With the Masters less than a month away, it is unlikely Tiger would opt to make his comeback at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and not play at Augusta.
In the meantime, the R&A gushed that “fans will be delighted to see” Woods and his fabled peers put on a show four months from now. The event does not appear on Tiger’s online calendar as yet.
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