Augusta masters

Hero World Challenge: A hectic season may be nearing its end, but some major events are happening this week at the Hero World Challenge. Tiger Woods will swing a club in a competitive round for the first time since pulling out of the third round at the Augusta Masters.

And the purse for this elite event, which has been $ 3.5 million since 2014, when Hero took over the sponsorship, has been enhanced to a healthy $ 4.5 million and is slated to go further up to $ 5 million next year, said Dr Pawan Munjal, Executive Chairman of the Hero MotoCorp.

An excited Woods admitted some ‘rust’ as he said, “My game feels rusty, I haven't played in a while. I had my subtalar (subtalar joint is an articulation between two of the tarsal bones in the foot, the talus and calcaneus) fused. I'm excited to compete and play and I'm just as curious as all of you are to see what happens because I haven't done it in a while. I can tell you this, I don't have any of the pain that I had at Augusta or pre (before) that in my ankle. Well, other parts are taking the brunt of the load so I'm a little more sore in other areas, but the ankle's good. So that surgery was a success.”