The Scotsman Golf Show

Martin Dempster reports from the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas.

Transcript

00:00 Hello, it's Martin Dempster, the Scotsman Golf correspondent here, coming to you from

00:06 the Albany Resort in the Bahamas, venue for this week's Hero World Challenge, an event

00:14 hosted of course by Tiger Woods, who much to the delight of the title sponsor and also

00:22 the fans and spectator fans around the world, is playing this week in the 20-man field.

00:29 Tiger's not been in competitive action since their Masters.

00:33 He was forced to withdraw before the third round was completed.

00:40 Augusta early in the year, he was struggling badly with his walking.

00:46 He underwent surgery on his ankle shortly after that and missed the rest of the PGA

00:53 Tour season and the Majors, which of course included an Open Championship at Royal Liverpool

00:59 where Tiger won and passed.

01:01 So he's delighted to be back this week.

01:05 Not quite sure what's going to happen in terms of his game.

01:10 True Tiger style, he said he wouldn't be here if he didn't believe he could win the event,

01:15 but at the same time he admitted his game is rusty.

01:19 So like everyone around the world, he's intrigued to see what's in store for him later in the

01:28 week.

01:29 A great field headed by world number one Scottish Sheffler and it also includes Victor Hovland,

01:37 the man who's won this event for the last two years.

01:41 Won the FedEx Cup early in the year of course and was a member of Europe's victorious Ryder

01:47 Cup team in Rome in September.

01:49 Two other players on that side, three in fact, Justin Rose, Matt Fitzpatrick and Sepp Strakka,

01:58 they're also in the field this week.

02:02 It's called the silly season in golf, but really strong field here and the fact that

02:07 Tiger's playing certainly adds intrigue to the storyline.

02:12 Keep in touch with everything to do with the Hero World Challenge and other events in the

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02:20 (wind blowing)