Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson took to Twitter on Wednesday afternoon to announce their much-discussed winner-take-all match was on for Thanksgiving weekend.
Turner Sports will produce the pay-per-view telecast of the event, which will offer $9 million to the winner and will be played Friday, Nov. 23, at Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas.
It’s on @PhilMickelson #TigerVSPhil pic.twitter.com/PZivYPOEf5
— Tiger Woods (@TigerWoods) August 22, 2018
I bet you think this is the easiest $9M you will ever make😂
— Phil Mickelson (@PhilMickelson) August 22, 2018
“It’s an opportunity for us to bring golf to the masses in prime time during a period where we don’t have much going on in the world of golf,” Mickelson said Wednesday after his pro-am round at Ridgewood Country Club ahead of Thursday’s Northern Trust Open.
The event will be televised on pay-per-view by Turner’s B/R Live platform, in addition to DirecTV and AT&T U-verse. Pricing has not been set but I think plenty of people will buy this assuming it stays under $100.00. Can’t wait to watch, and my money is on Tiger.
Update:
Viewing: PPV on DirecTV and other on-demand platforms.
Winner-Take-All Match Play: $9,000,000
Venue: Shadow Creek (Las Vegas, NV)
There will be prop bets.
First odds coming out of @LVSuperBook…@TigerWoods -180@PhilMickelson +150
— Golf Central (@GolfCentral) August 22, 2018