Tiger Woods announces that before he goes to Melbourne for the Australian Masters he will be in China to play in the HSBC Champions.
After the birth of his first child it was known that Woods shut down his travels overseas. Last year he was in recovery from a knee surgery that’s why he was not able to play. According to Woods he would be playing for the first time is Australia since the President Cup in 1998.
Woods is really excited in competing in China. If the HSBC Champions becomes a World Golf Championship, then it would be the first world championship that Wood has not won. However, this is not his first competition in China. In 2005 and 2006, he was a runner up.
Half or the appearance fee for the Down Under trip comes from the tax payers of Victoria. The appearance fee is $3 million. However during the Arnold Palmer Invitational Woods defended the appearance money.
Woods said it’s not about the money. He said he has been playing in tours since 1955 and he said things have changed. The conditions of the purses and the golf course that he has played at have changed. Now, they understand what the tour is really about and it took some time for them to understand.