Almost a year ago, Tiger Woods won in Chiba (Japan) on the Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club with a score of -19 (267) and four sublime cards of 64, 64, 66 and 67. Thanks to this ZOZO Championship success, for the first time on the 2019-20 PGA Tour calendar, the Tiger equaled the winning record then held by legendary Sam Snead.
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He will be at the start of the same tournament with a very high endowment ($ 8 million) this year, but this time at the Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, California.
Given the still virulent Covid-19 pandemic, the event has indeed been relocated to the west coast of the United States.
It will be played from October 22 to 25, following two tournaments scheduled in Las Vegas (Nevada), namely the Shriners Hospitals for Children (October 8-11) and the CJ Cup @ Nine Bridges - which had to be played beforehand. in South Korea - October 15-18.
"I'm thrilled to be defending my title," Woods said on his
account.
hours after participating in a charity game in Missouri with Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas and Justin Rose.
It's disappointing that you can't play in Japan this year, but the Sherwood Country Club will be a great backdrop for what I know is a big championship.
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Only one top 10 since January
Since the beginning of the year, alas truncated by the coronavirus which stopped from March 12 to June 11 any golf competition in the United States, Tiger Woods, who will be 45 years old on December 30, has however hardly shone by his results.
After taking a very encouraging 9th place at the Farmers Insurance Open on January 26th alongside Torrey Pines (California), he thus chained the poor performances, finishing for example last (68th) at the Genesis Invitational, failing to qualify. for the final of the playoffs of the FedEx Cup before missing the cut at the US Open last week on the terrible West Course of Winged Foot (New York) with two cards of 73 (+3) and 77 (+7).
His best result since the Farmers remains for the moment a very anecdotal 37th place in the PGA Championship, first Major of the season, won by the American Colin Morikawa.