Tiger Woods & Rory McIlroy To Split $3m Appearance Fee For Duel At Lake Jinsha.

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World No. 1 Rory McIlroy and 14-time Major winning, Tiger Woods are expected to share a $3m appearance fee for just a day’s work tomorrow (Monday) in China.

McIlroy and Woods have been enticed to the north-central Chinese city of Zhengzhou for the ‘Duel at Lake Jinsha’, an 18-hole medal match-play format tournament.

Zhengzhou lies along the banks of the famed Yellow River boasting a population of close to 10 million but with just three golf courses, and in nation where the first golf course was not built to 1984 and there’s now well over 600.

McIlroy visited the Lake Jinsha course last year as one of seven venues in the seven-day, seven-stop,  18-hole ‘China Challenge’ that also featured Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter and China’s Liang Wen-chong.

Lake Jinsha was the second stop of seven and in an event Westwood clinched five days later in Macau.

But the four played just three holes at Lake Jinsha and with McIlroy posting a par, birdie and a bogey before moving onto the next Challenge stop.
“Given we only played three holes, so I can hardly so I know the course, and the only thing I remember is that just so many people turned up to the golf course to watch the four of us,” said McIlroy after finishing runner-up in the BMW Masters in Shanghai.

However McIlroy will to reproduce his Shanghai second place form is he’s to turn the tables on Woods in their historic encounter, as it will be the first time anywhere in the world the pair will go head-to-head without any other competitor in the field.

Woods scored bragging rights a fortnight ago when he bundled McIlroy out of the $7m Turkish Airlines World Golf Final but in an event featuring six others.

“I do treat these exhibition matches as a bit of fun and it will be good to get a little bit of bragging rights but after that fact that I tried so hard to win here in Shanghai, it will be hard to get myself up for tomorrow’s match against Tiger,” added McIlroy.

“Of course, I will be a lot more hunger this time against Tiger than I was in Turkey, and only because I am playing a lot better than I did in Turkey.

“My game is a lot better and hopefully it will be a closer match in Zhengzhou.”

Organisers of ‘The Duel of Lake Jinsha’ have budgeted $5.4m (52RMB) into tomorrow’s one day event and with Woods expected to be paid an appearance fee of around $2m and the double Major winning McIlroy $1m.

Both players arrived late on Sunday with Woods travelling from Malaysia where he is reputed to have been paid $3m to tee-up in the CIMB Classic where he eventually finished three shots in fourth place behind fellow American Nick Watney .



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