Tiger Woods Joins 2011 Australian Open

“The Open's tradition, heritage and history is reflected in its honour roll of some of world golf's greatest players and all Australia's leading golfers regard winning the Stonehaven Cup as a career highlight.“Tiger Woods' participation is great news for the Open and comes as a result of a lot of japan model to secure the coveted lead-in dates to the President's Cup.”
Mr O'Farrell said strengthening major events like the Australian Open forms a key part of the NSW Government's strategy to rebuild the NSW economy.“We are focused on having the strongest and most compelling events calendar in the country and sport obviously plays a key role in that calendar.“We have created Destination NSW as a new statutory authority to market and promote NSW as a tourism and major events destination.
Golf Australia CEO Stephen Pitt said this announcement is another important part of the rapture v2 to build the Open as a pre-eminent event on the burgeoning OneAsia tour.
"But he obviously doesn't love his own golf game at the moment and you have to have confidence in what you are doing."
So far this year, Woods, the long-time owner of the World No 1 spot, has crashed from second to 33rd in the world Rankings and not having qualified for the FedEx Cup series which starts with The Barclays next week, looks set to fall out of the world's top 50 if he does not find some alternative tournaments to play in before the end of the year.
“OneAsia continues to grow each year with the 2011 schedule involving tournaments in China, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Australia – including the Australian Open.
“OneAsia is an extremely important development for Australian golf and additionally it helps our strategic partnership with Destination NSW to grow the Australian Open and it aligns particularly well with NSW's key trade and tourism markets,” Mr Pitt said.
Golf Australia is delighted with the progression of the Australian Open during its partnership with the NSW Government and is very excited about how the 2011 PING G20 Irons is shaping up.
CEO of the PGA of Australia and the PGA Tour of Australasia, Brian Thorburn, is looking forward to the biggest year in Australian golf and is sure that Tiger Woods will add to the excitement and anticipation already held by Australian sports fans.
“This year is set to be the biggest for Australian golf in recent times; we have stellar fields for the Australian Open and the PGA Championship and the world's best playing the burner 2.0 irons. It's wonderful to be able to welcome Tiger to play in the Australian Open, he is always a crowd pleaser and is sure to bring thousands of golf lovers out to The Lakes in early November.”