Tiger Woods and Phil Mickleson plan a rematch of their £7m ‘The Match’ to raise cash for coronavirus

Tiger Woods and Phil Mickleson plan a rematch of their £7m ‘The Match’ in Florida to raise cash for coronavirus relief… but this time it will be behind closed doors and with Peyton Manning and Tom Brady joining them

• ‘The Match’ is thought to be held in Florida and a two-on-two contest
• Tiger Woods is a 15-time Major winner while Phil Mickelson has won five
• The PGA Tour is indefinitely postponed due to the outbreak of coronavirus 
• Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19

By Reuters

Published: 08:37 BST, 23 April 2020 | Updated: 08:43 BST, 23 April 2020

Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will join American football quarterbacks Tom Brady and Peyton Manning in a charity golf match next month, media company Turner Sports said on Wednesday.

‘The Match: Champions for Charity is coming soon exclusively on TNT. All proceeds will benefit COVID-19 relief,’ Turner Sports said.

No more details of the event were given, but it is expected to be a two-on-two contest, and there is widespread speculation it will be held at a Florida course.

Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will replay the £7m ‘The Match’ to raise cash to fight COVID-19

Mickelson and Woods will play without crowds due to social distancing measures in place 

In 2018, Woods and Mickelson competed for a £7m prize, which Mickelson won

This time, the duo will come together to raise money for the coronavirus relief effort

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently expressed support for the event.

‘You wouldn’t have a gallery there. You wouldn’t have crowds, but to put that on TV, I think people have been starved for content,’ he said.

Woods and Mickelson are the two most successful golfers of their era, with 15 and five major championships to their names respectively.

Neither has played since the PGA Tour cancelled the Players Championship due to the coronavirus pandemic after the first round on March 12, shutting down the tour indefinitely.

Woods and Mickelson previously played a pay-per-view exhibition in November 2018 that was beset with technical difficulties and ultimately streamed for free.

Mickelson won the $9 million event in Las Vegas in 22 holes in a contest largely devoid of the trash talk that many viewers were hoping to witness.

Tom Brady (left) and Peyton Manning will be involved in a two-on-two fundraising event

 Woods is a 15-time Major winner, with his most recent triumph at the 2019 Masters 

Mickelson (left) is also one of golf’s big names, and he has won five major titles in his career 

But the addition of Brady and Manning is likely to spice things up, and be a big television draw for a national and international audience starved of live sport due to the coronavirus shutdown.

Brady is a six-times Super Bowl champion who has just signed for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after spending his entire career with the New England Patriots.

Manning, who retired in 2016, is the only starting quarterback to win Super Bowls with different teams — the Indianapolis Colts in 2006 and Denver Broncos in 2016.

 

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