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Big names at Bighorn Woods, Garcia to hold prime-time match in August
Posted: Thursday March 23, 2000 01:53 PM
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Tiger Woods, the No. 1 golfer in the world, returns to prime-time television to face Spain's Sergio Garcia in an 18-hole match in Palm Desert, California, this summer. The "Battle of Bighorn" will take place Aug. 28 and be televised by ABC on the last Monday night before the National Football League season begins, the network announced Wednesday. The purse will be $1.5 million, with the winner receiving $1.1 million, the loser $400,000, and a total of $500,000 contributed to charity with the players designating a portion of their winnings. The second-ever live network telecast of a golf event in prime time will be contested on the new Tom Fazio-designed Canyons Golf Club. Woods beat David Duval 2 and 1 last year in the "Showdown at Sherwood," an exhibition at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, California, that drew a 7.4 overnight rating. The appeal of Woods and Garcia could be even greater. Both are young and charismatic and already have a history from the PGA Championship, in which Woods held off a furious charge by "El Nino" to win at Medinah. "We are excited to again be a part of professional golf's second prime-time match-play spectacular," ABC Sports President Howard Katz said in making the announcement. Al Michaels, the play-by-play voice of Monday Night Football, will join ABC Sports' golf team -- anchor Mike Tirico; analyst Curtis Strange, and reporters Judy Rankin and Jimmy Roberts -- for the event, which is being promoted and managed by the International Management Group and is sanctioned by the PGA Tour.
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