Tiger Woods has confirmed he is to return to the World Match Play Championship at Wentworth this September for the first time since 1998.
The event, now under the sponsorship of HSBC and with golf's biggest first prize of £1million, takes place on September 14-17, the week before the Ryder Cup in Ireland.
It will be the first leg of a three-way trip across the Atlantic for Woods as the Ryder Cup is followed by his defence of the American Express world championship at The Grove near Watford.
Woods, competing this week at the £5million Players Championship in Florida, reached the final in his one and only appearance at Wentworth before losing on the last green to close friend - and then Open and Masters champion - Mark O'Meara.
Now it is Woods who holds those two major titles and with three wins already this season he has opened up a huge gap again at the top of the world rankings. He qualifies for the Match Play as world number one.
What will be different from his previous appearance is that now the field is 16 rather than 12 and everybody has to play four 36-hole matches to take the title.
