Supply: Tiger, Rory a part of skins occasion in Japan
PORTRUSH, Northern Eire — A return of a skins sport format that may characteristic Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Jason Day and Hideki Matsuyama will happen on Oct. 21 at Accordia Golf Narashino Nation Membership in Japan, a supply tells ESPN.
The one-day competitors, which can supply profitable prize cash, will happen a couple of days previous to the beginning of the Zozo Championship, a brand new PGA Tour occasion being performed outdoors of Tokyo the place Woods may even compete.
The construction and prize cash are to be decided, however the PGA Tour is sanctioning the occasion.
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The Skins Sport was as soon as a preferred offseason event that featured lots of the sport’s greats from 1983 to 2005 and was usually contested Thanksgiving weekend. Woods performed the occasion seven occasions, however he by no means received it.
Usually in a skins competitors, a sure amount of cash is at stake per gap, with a participant incomes that sum provided that he wins the opening outright. If there are any ties, the cash carries over to the subsequent gap till somebody shoots the bottom rating on the opening. There are numerous different wrinkles that may very well be added.
How a lot this model of a skins sport will resemble that’s unclear, however this occasion is a part of an settlement Woods has to offer content material to GolfTV, an entity that does interviews and different options with Woods at worldwide places that at the moment don’t embrace america — though there are negotiations to have the skins occasion televised within the U.S. market.
GolfTV is a PGA Tour rights-holder.
Steinberg mentioned earlier this yr that there have been plans for Woods to play a sequence of matches in Asia starting later this yr. Steinberg declined to remark for this story.
The Zozo Championship debuts Oct. 24-27 at Narashino Nation Membership outdoors of Japan and is a part of a three-tournament Asia swing on the official PGA Tour schedule that features the CJ Cup in South Korea and the WGC HSBC Champions in China.
Woods dedicated to the event months in the past, and it’ll seemingly be his solely official PGA Tour begin within the fall. For the reason that PGA Tour went to a wraparound schedule in 2013-14, Woods has by no means performed an official fall occasion.
The Japan event has a 78-player area with no lower and a $9.75 million purse.
This season, Woods has performed simply 10 occasions, together with his missed lower at The Open. He’s skipping this week’s WGC-FedEx St. Jude Basic and never anticipated to play once more till the Northern Belief, which begins Aug. eight.