ON THE PGA TOUR
TAYLORMADE DRIVING RELIEF MA
Total partner and individual donations
totaled $5,571,211 for the TaylorMade
Driving Relief skins match. Sunday’s
match at Seminole in Florida between the
teams of Rory McIlroy-Dustin Johnson
and Rickie Fowl
the cornerstone
as live televised
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was shut down t
TIGER WOODS AND PEYTON MANN
Tom Brady delivered the shot of the
match that made it easy to forget
the rest of his swings. Tiger Woods
didn’t miss a fairway and earned a
small measure of revenge against
Phil Mickelson. The PGA TOUR is
set to return in just over two weeks,
and what a preview this was.
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match that brought live golf to TV,
this exhibition was as entertaining
as the real thing. Woods lagged
a long birdie putt close enough
that his partner, Peyton Manning,
didn’t have to putt. That secured
a 1-up victory over Mickelson and
Brady in Capital One’s The Match:
Champions for Charity. The goal
was to raise $10 million or more for
COVID-19 relief funds, and online
donations sent money climbing. In
the end, $20 million was raised.
This made-for-TV exhibition would have have worth pay
view, the model Woods and Mickelson used for a $9 m
winner-take-all match in Las Vegas over Thanksgiving wee
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two NFL greats in Brady and Manning, and this allowed vi
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