Tiger Woods has addressed questions in regards to the Ryder Cup captaincy forward of internet hosting the Genesis Invitational.
Tiger Woods is the host of the Genesis Invitational, which is able to characteristic Rory McIlroy (Picture: Getty)
The Genesis Invitational is about to take centre stage, with a star-studded discipline set to participate within the Tiger Woods-hosted match. The world’s prime two gamers, Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy, will headline the 72-player discipline on the Riviera Nation Membership in Los Angeles.
They are going to be joined by defending champion Ludvig Aberg and Collin Morikawa, the winner of the current Pebble Seaside Professional-Am. Host Woods will not be in motion. The 15-time main champion, who turned 50 in December, has not performed in a match for the reason that 2024 Open at Royal Troon attributable to a lot of accidents. Nevertheless, he advised reporters forward of the Genesis that he might be again in motion quickly, revealing that an look on the Masters in April just isn’t out of the query. This is a spherical of the week’s different golf information…
To the shock of some, McIlroy has been missed for a serious award. DP World Tour stars have voted for his or her participant of the yr, and regardless of McIlroy successful the tour’s Race to Dubai crown for a fourth consecutive time, it wasn’t sufficient to land him the Seve Ballesteros Award for a fifth time.
“Or, you understand, simply one thing silly, proper? However mentioning that I am bringing girls to play golf. And [Augusta National] referred to as into the ESPN truck, like we’re nonetheless on the air, and the folks in Augusta are actually… they one way or the other have the within quantity to the truck. They usually had been like, ‘He isn’t coming!’ So I used to be by no means invited to go by my lords.”
Augusta Nationwide dropped its all-male membership coverage in 2012, although it stays invitation-only.
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