The 14,000 square-metre venue in Florida will reportedly be able to withstand a Category 5 hurricane. The previous air-supported stadium was rated to withstand a Category 4 storm.
Woods joins fellow Jones winners Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Francis Ouimet, Mickey Wright, Patty Berg, Annika Sorenstam and US president George H.W. Bush.
Ask those who have spent the summer finishing second to Kazuma Kobori on the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia and you invariably get the same response:
Jake Knapp was only 11 back in early 2006, when the WGC-Match Play came to La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, California, just 80 kilometres south of his home in Costa Mesa.
For the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club, Adam Scott, a two-time winner of the event, did something he has not had to do since he turned professional more than 20 years ago.
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