OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 7.00pm.
ERNIE ELS, Tiger Woods and last year’s winner Nick Price will make their appearance as favourites at the Sun City Million Dollar Golf challenge which starts on Thursday.
The three are part of the competition’s strongest-ever field, which includes six of the top seven players in the world. Woods, the world number-one, heads the field and will face 11 other opponents including his best friend Mark O’Meara.
O’Meara has had a highly successful year at the age of 41, winning the Masters and the British Open.
Other top competitors will be debutant Englishman Lee Westwood, American Justin Leonard, Scotsman Colin Montgomerie, American David Duval, compatriot Jim Furyk, German ace Bernhard Langer, Swede Jesper Parnevik and Davis Love III’s replacement Tom Watson.
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Million to one
The Nedbank Million Dollar Challenge keeps getting better and this year the biggest hitter of them all is here in the person of Tiger Woods.
THEY SAID IT
“We scored eight very good tries. I don’t want to flatter myself, but this was a very well-selected midweek side and tonight confirmed that.” — Springbok rugby coach Nick Mallett after his midweek side beat Ireland A 50-19.