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[NBCSports.com: Sports] Woods returns this week at the Quail Hollow Championship in North Carolina, otherwise known as the tournament with no title sponsorship name. It will be Woods' sixth event since the eight-month layoff to accommodate knee surgery and it will be a tuneup for The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.
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[The Gaea News] A different look for Tiger, Phil with rough gone at Quail Hollow ...: Quail Hollow ” previously known as the Wachovia Championship, with no mention of Wells Fargo ” established itself as one of the premier courses on the PGA Tour when it made its debut in 2003. Players love coming to this tournament, which shows in a field that has attracted Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Geoff Ogilvy, Sergio Garcia, defending champion Anthony Kim and a host of other stars.
[Golf.com: Tours & News] Tiger Woods will play Quail Hallow Championship in Charlotte ...: Wells Fargo will limit its involvement to the terms of the sponsorship agreement it inherited, which runs through 2014. The Charlotte area has also been hit harder by the recession than most because of the high concentration of banking jobs.
[NBCSports.com: Sports] Tiger return to PGA Tour next week at Charlotte - Golf- nbcsports ...: Woods has been off since mid-April, when his final-day charge came up short at Augusta National and he finished tied for sixth. Next weeks tournament will serve as a tuneup for Woods ahead of The Players Championship a week later.
[About.com Golf: What's Hot Now] This Week: Quail Hollow Championship: The PGA Tour certainly hasn't been unscathed, but its issues seem pretty mild compared to the LPGA's. When the Wachovia Championship was created in 2003, it returned to Quail Hollow.
[Sports] Zurich Classic of New Orleans deserves to have the best PGA can ...: Sometimes to get a player of Tiger's stature to come to a course or tournament internationally, the tournament will offer an inducement to that player. Tiger has accepted millions to play in Dubai before it became a must go to event (thanks of course to Tiger for showing up, winning and crowing about how great the course was - now he shows up regardless and it was a win-win for both...), but that type of thing doesn't happen on the PGA Tour.
[Golfweek.com RSS Feed] Golf | Woods commits to Quail Hollow: Wells Fargo, which bought Wachovia late last year, took the Wachovia name off the tournament at Quail Hollow Club. Wells Fargo will limit its involvement to the terms of the sponsorship agreement it inherited, which runs through 2014.
[Courant.com - Golf] Tiger Woods to return to PGA Tour next week at Quail Hollow ...: Wells Fargo, which bought Wachovia late last year, took the Wachovia name off the tournament at Quail Hollow Club. Wells Fargo will limit its involvement to the terms of the sponsorship agreement it inherited, which runs through 2014.
[The WorldGolf Wire - Daily golf-industry news updates from WorldGolf.com.] Mission Hills Jack Nicklaus Junior Championship schedule set ...: Inspired and supported by Nicklaus' passionate efforts in the area of junior golf development, Mission Hills set out in 2008 to create a tournament in his name to give young, gifted players the opportunity to compete under professional tournament conditions. For the second consecutive year, a field of girls and boys under the age of 18 will contend for a collection of prizes, the most prestigious of which includes an exemption to the inaugural Asian Amateur Championship in October 2009, as well as an opportunity to play in September's The Duke of York Young Champions Trophy in Scotland.
[TheGolfChannel Headlines] Shag Bag Blog: April - SHAG BAG - Golf News & Articles | Golf Channel: Lee, who was 18 years and one month old when he bumped Tiger Woods as the youngest winner of the U.S. Amateur .“Michelle was, in fact, given permission by Lotte, the title sponsor, to miss the Pro-Am after a miscommunication between Lotte and the KLPGA,” Dave Haggith, communications director for IMG Golf, wrote in an e-mail response to a .
[Photomaniacal] Photomaniacal » Blog Archive » Robert Weintraub: Tiger Woods's ...: But the sport desperately needs some other attractions for when Tiger is hurt, or decides to take some time off to be with his young family or simply isn’t playing - Woods will likely concentrate on his goal of shattering Jack Nicklaus’s record of 18 major championship wins and cut back on playing the run-of-the-mill tournaments that are the backbone of the sport. Without any sort of drawing card, and with its customary revenue and sponsorship stream in tatters, pro golf is more heavily dependant on Tiger then ever before.
[Chicagoland Golf blog -- Phil Kosin's Worm Castings] Tiger's back in form, and TV networks couldn't be happier ...: To the thrill of his fans, the PGA Tour and any of its tournament sponsors lucky enough to have him in their field, the TV networks and advertisers, and couch potatoes everywhere ” and to the silent dismay of many PGA Tour players .This, of course, means that the ratings from Bay Hill beat out both the final round of the Open Championship and the PGA Championship, two of golf's majors.
[ALEX P. VIDAL'S BLOG] SPORTS: TIGER WOODS: “On his bag, he will carry the logo of AT&T, the company that sponsors his tournament outside of Washington, D.C., over the Fourth of July,” Damon Hack wrote. “Nike, which manufactures Woods clubs, balls and apparel, is also planning to release a new commercial timed to his comeback at the Match Play.
[Sports and World Cup Blog] Tiger Woods Comeback Good Stimulus plan for PGA Tour: that rely on sponsorship for each event and plenty of star power at the top of the game. As long as Kobe Bryant and LeBron James are healthy, team sports like the NBA might be able to withstand the loss of Amare Stoudemire, Andrew Bynum, Kevin Garnett, Manu Ginobili, Tracy McGrady, Jameer Nelson and other marquee players until the playoffs, at least.
[Bob Grant on Brand Marketing] Tiger Woods Brand Revisited: We can’t blame Tiger for poor sales of Buick and the downfall of GM, but it is noteworthy that the viewership of the Buick International was down 57% without Tiger participating in the tournament. While we don’t have evidence of the direct effect of the absence of Tiger Woods from the PGA tour due to his knee surgery on the companies he sponsors, we do now have the results of the affect of his absence on viewers of the PGA tour.
[Bankroll Sports Blog] Tiger Woods Win at Arnold Palmer - 2009 Masters Odds, Tigers Odds ...: A few months back, we broke down Tiger Woods expected return to golf and perhaps how long it would take the biggest icon in sports to shock the world again after making his return from being out of golf for 8 months due to reconstructive knee surgery. Well those questions were answered this Sunday, when Tiger pulled off yet another jaw dropping spectacle at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
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