The field for the first World Golf Championship will not include Tiger Woods, although that is not a big surprise as he is silent from getting his fifth back surgery.
Woods qualified for next week’s WGC-Workday Championship by staying in the top 50 in the world rankings (he’s 48th) but chose not to play the event which would be about a three-hour drive from his home in South Florida.
Woods – a seven-time World Golf Championship winner played in Miami, Mexico City and now Bradenton, Fla. – the case of this week ‘s Farmers Insurance Competition and Genesis Invitational, which benefits its foundation, and which has not played the official PGA Tour event from the Masters in November.
This year’s WGC Working Day Competition will mark the first time the event will be played without Woods or Phil Mickelson, who did not qualify for the event, in the field since world events were created in 1999. .