Return to K Club ‘may tempt Tiger Woods’

The European Tour hopes its long-awaited return to the K Club for this May’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Open could tempt Tiger Woods to the tournament in a reunion of the 2006 Ryder Cup teams.

A decade on from Europe’s famous 18.5 to 9.5 rout of the United States by the banks of the Liffey in Co. Kildare, tournament promoter Antonia Beggs outlined her ambitious wish to gather as many of the 24 golfers who played under captains Ian Woosnam and Tom Lehman to play in the 2016 Irish Open Hosted by the Rory Foundation.

Whether getting 14-time major winner Woods, still out of action following back surgery last September was a possibility or not, Beggs did not know but she said every effort would be made, including using tournament host Rory McIlroy’s powers of persuasion to bring the 40-year-old back to the K Club.