Tiger Woods Set To Play In Turkish Open In November
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Tiger Woods has confirmed he will play the Turkish Open, a new event on the European Tour, in November this year.
The 78-man tournament will be played over the Montgomerie Maxx Royal course in Belek and will form the third leg of the Final Series on The Race to Dubai.
Woods also played in Turkey last year, at the eight-man Turkish Airlines World Golf Final, a matchplay event that was not sanctioned by the European Tour.
This year, the European Tour has introduced a final series to end the season, similar to the FedEx Cup playoffs, compromising of four events each with a purse of over $7m.
Chubby Chandler, who has been heavily influential in the formation of the Turkish Open, said: “Tiger had a pretty good time last year. It wasn’t too onerous on him and he managed to get in as late as possible and out as early as possible, which was the intention.
“So we almost based the tournament date with the European Tour around which week he could play, and it just so happened that this week suited the European Tour and Tiger Woods.
“With Turkey being a country of not that many golfers, I’m afraid that the other 77 players in Turkey won’t be the sort of familiar names to the Turkish people, whereas Tiger is.”
