Monday, October 08, 2012

McILROY AND TIGER COULD MEET IN TURKISH FINAL THIS WEEK

FROM THE BBC SPORTS WEBSITE
Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods are set to face each other at this week's Turkish Airlines World Golf Final.
World No 1 McIlroy and 14-time major winner Woods, the World No 2, have been drawn in the same group.
It means the world's top two players will play each other at least once in the new £3.2m eight-man event.
Charl Schwartzel and Matt Kuchar complete Group One, with Lee Westwood, Justin Rose, Hunter Mahan and US Open champion Webb Simpson in Group Two.
Head-to-head matches will be played in a medal match-play format, with the lowest strokeplay score over 18 holes winning a point.
The winner of Group One will face the runner-up of Group Two, and vice versa, in Thursday's semi-finals with two players contesting a £935,000 first prize in Friday's final.
McIlroy and Woods will not face each other until the final game on Wednesday, by which time they could already be through to the semi-finals.
"It's something I am looking forward to," said McIlroy. "Tiger has been a hero of mine growing up so to compete against him is a dream come true.
"This will be the first match we have had head-to-head and it's a match I would really like to win."
The 23-year-old, who almost missed the start of his Ryder Cup singles match after a time mix-up at Medinah, added: "I haven't touched a club since the Ryder Cup so I am going to get to the course a little early tomorrow [Tuesday] to hit a few balls and see if it's still there.
"And I will make sure I am in the right time zone."
Woods, meanwhile, admits he apologised to the four rookies on the US Ryder Cup team for not winning a single point in his three team matches as the home side squandered a 10-6 lead going into the singles to lose 13½-14½ .
"Stricks [Steve Stricker] and I went out there and tried to earn points for the team and didn't do that and it was frustrating," said Woods, who has won 15 and lost 17 of his 35 Ryder Cup matches.
"We had a four-point lead and we went 0-3. If we could have earned a couple of points it would have been a pretty good lead going into Sunday's singles."
The World Golf Final is not an official event on either the European or US PGA Tours.

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