Padraig Harrington & Ernie Els skipping Match Play
Ireland’s world number nine Padraig Harrington will skip next month’s World Match Play Championship and play the $5 million Singapore Open instead, organisers said on Thursday.
The three-times major winner would almost certainly have qualified for the Match Play but has chosen to return to the Singapore Open, which takes place in the same week and is co-sanctioned by the European Tour this year.
South African Ernie Els has already decided not to defend the Match Play title he won at the last version of the event in 2007 and honour his commitment to play at Sentosa.
Els and Harrington, who finished joint-second a shot behind India’s Jeev Milkha Singh in Singapore last year, will be joined by South Korea’s K.J Choi at the Oct. 29 to Nov 1 event, the jewel in the Asian Tour’s crown.
