The winner of the Claret Jug in 2000, 2005 and 2006 has continued a gradual restoration from a automobile accident in February 2021. He had indicated in April his willpower to play the a hundred and fiftieth Open.
Woods suffered a setback in his return to play when he was compelled to overlook the US Open final month. However has continued his restoration since and arrived for preparation in Eire this week.
Three-time Open champion Tiger Woods has been confirmed as taking part in in The R&A Celebration of Champions at St Andrews on Monday July 11 to start the week of the a hundred and fiftieth championship.
The Celebration of Champions is a four-hole mini-event consisting of groups of golf champions from all areas of the sport – mens and ladies’s, skilled and newbie, disabled, previous and current. It extends on the idea of the Champions’ Challenges efficiently run previous to the Opens of 2000 and 2015.
Woods and the 2014 Open champion Rory McIlroy will likely be a part of the identical group. Lee Trevino, the 1971 and 1972 Open champion, and Georgia Corridor, the 2018 Girls’s Open champion full the quartet.
They may tee off at 5.05 pm on Monday. The occasion is launched by present champion Collin Morikawa, partnered by the 2021 Girls’s Open champion Anna Nordqvist. Girls’s newbie champion Jess Baker and Keita Nakajima, who received the Asia-Pacific Beginner are the 2 others.
Woods mentioned: “That is going to be a particular week of golf. Having most of the sport’s nice champions and future stars play on this occasion is a good way to mark this historic championship.
“St Andrews has such a novel environment. I’m trying ahead to taking part in in entrance of the followers once more on a course that holds incredible reminiscences for me.”
Martin Slumbers, Chief Government of The R&A, mentioned: “We now have deliberate a really particular celebration of golf for followers.
“I’m positive they are going to be excited on the prospect of watching the best names in golf, in addition to the long run stars of the game, come collectively to play over the Outdated Course at St Andrews.
“We’re intentionally inviting a discipline that represents the previous, current and way forward for this sport all of us love. It displays our objective to make sure that golf is seen as welcoming, accessible and could be performed by anybody who desires to.”
The champions will compete over the first, 2nd, seventeenth and 18th holes of the well-known Outdated Course.
The total draw will likely be introduced on the morning of Monday July 11. The R&A Celebration of Champions will likely be broadcast reside on TV.
It’ll even be accessible to view digitally on TheOpen.com and The Open’s YouTube channel. Followers also can observe the motion through The Open Radio, The Open App and The Open’s varied social channels.
