After a difficult few weeks deciding whether or not to play in his home country's Irish Open or the AT&T National -- Which is held at Congressional where he won the 2011 U.S. Open in such convincing fashion.
World No. 2 Rory McIlroy has announced he will tee it up in his home country at the 2012 Irish Open.
The 2012 event has been moved to June 28 - July 1 to avoid the Summer Olympic games, which will be held in London in July.
The Irish Open this year was held on July 28 - 31, two weeks after the British Open.
Moving the event in 2012 also meant McIlroy would have a tough choice on his hands. Would he forgo his National Open to play in the AT&T National at Congressional?
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fter all, he did walk away from the field at the U.S. Open there earlier in 2011 to claim his first major championship in his career on this same course.
Long hitting Dustin Johnson underwent arthroscopic knee surgery on Tuesday to repair cartilage damage in his right knee.
This procedure will side line the five time PGA Tour winner until at least mid-January, which could possibly keep him out of the first event of the year at the Tournament of Champions in Kapula, Hawaii -- Which begins on January 6th.
Johnson was expected to play this week at the Chevron World Challenge, of course he has now withdrawn from the event.
His agent David Winkle, said doctors have explained to them that he; on crutches now, will be able to begin chipping and putting within a few weeks and able to get back to regular preparations for the 2012 season by late December.
The surgeon that performed the procedure was Dr. George Caldwell. "He was in the hands of an excellent surgeon and a full and speedy recovery is expected," Winkle went on to say.
Johnson has been feeling this right knee pain as far back as the British Open in July, where he finished runner-up to Darren Clarke.
Odds makers have made Tiger Woods the favorite to win this week's Chevron World Challenge, an event Woods hosts and has won four times.
Played at the Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, California, the event is an elite 18 player field featuring some of the youngest and biggest talents in the game.
Names like Webb Simpson, Jason Day, Rickie Fowler, Bill Haas and Keegan Bradley.
Woods has been set by many odds makers to be the 11/4 favorite to win the event. Though he has won this event four times in the past as mentioned above.
The world's former No. 1 player is still looking for his first win since 2009 -- And though he did show promise with his play in both the Australian Open and Presidents Cup, there are still many questions surrounding his game.
If any event is to be his first win in almost two years, this week could be the perfect setting for that to happen.
After a difficult few weeks deciding whether or not to play in his home country's Irish Open or the AT&T National -- Which is held at Congressional where he won the 2011 U.S. Open in such convincing fashion.
