LONDON, Feb 5 --The Volvo World Match Play Championship will return to England this year for the first time since 2007 to mark the tournament’s 50th anniversary, organisers announced today.
The European Tour event has been played in Spain and Bulgaria in the intervening years, but although it is returning to England, it will be played at the London Golf Club in Kent and not former venue Wentworth.
“I think it is fantastic that the Volvo World Match Play Championship will be played in England for this special anniversary,” said defending champion Graeme McDowell.
“I enjoyed everything about my victory last year at Thracian Cliffs in Bulgaria. It seems right, though, to celebrate the championship’s anniversary in England, where the tournament was held for so many years.”
The 2014 tournament, to be held between October 15 and 19, will feature a 16-man field competing for a first prize of £540,000 (RM2.9 million). -- AFP
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