Team Isleworth Leads Team Lake Nona After First Round of Tavistock Cup
Posted on: Monday, 16 March 2009, 18:11 CDT
ORLANDO, Fla., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Team Isleworth established a 6-4 lead over Team Lake Nona on the first day of competition at the 2009 Tavistock Cup.
Tiger Woods and John Cook, matched against Team Lake Nona's Chris DiMarco and Henrik Stenson, picked up two points for Team Isleworth in the Fourball Medal Match Play format of Round 1 with a score of 63.
Mark O'Meara and Darren Clarke earned two points for Team Isleworth against Ben Curtis and Mark McNulty of Team Lake Nona ending the day with a 10-under round of 62. Charles Howell III and Nick O'Hern, matched against Ernie Els and Trevor Immelman of Team Lake Nona, landed two points for Team Isleworth with a score of 62 as well.
Ian Poulter and Justin Rose, a couple of neighbors and Ryder Cup teammates, got Team Lake Nona on the board with a round of 10-under-par 62 against Team Isleworth's Robert Allenby and Stuart Appleby. Team Lake Nona's Retief Goosen and Graeme McDowell captured the low round of the day with a round of 12-under-par (60) against Team Isleworth's J.B. Holmes and Daniel Chopra.
Retief Goosen won the Old Mutual Long Drive Challenge on Hole #9 with a drive measuring 325 yards, and Tiger Woods won on Hole #15 with a 320-yard drive.
Participants in the 2009 Tavistock Cup include captain Mark O'Meara, Robert Allenby, Stuart Appleby, Daniel Chopra, Darren Clarke, John Cook, J.B. Holmes, Charles Howell III, Nick O'Hern and Tiger Woods for Team Isleworth. Team Lake Nona participants include captain Ernie Els, Ben Curtis, Chris DiMarco, Retief Goosen, Trevor Immelman, Graeme McDowell, Mark McNulty, Ian Poulter, Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson.
Round 2 will be a Fourball Singles Medal Match Play format. Each player in the group plays an 18-hole stroke play singles match against each of the opposing two players; therefore, each player plays two singles matches. A win is worth 1 point, a tie is worth a 1/2 point and a loss is worth 0 points. In total, there will be 20 points awarded for Round 2. As a result, it will take 151/2 points to win the Tavistock Cup and be crowned World Golf and Country Club Champion.
The Tavistock Cup pits the touring professional golf members of Lake Nona Golf & Country Club against those at Isleworth Golf & Country Club. Played in team format, the players vie for a purse of $3.5 million, with $1 million donated on behalf of the winning team to charities of their choice. In its sixth year, the Tavistock Cup has donated to local and international charities around the world including M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, The First Tee and the University of Central Florida. Players also compete for team hole-in-one prizes including Audi cars, Air Nautique boats, OMEGA watches and private air travel from Marquis Jet.
Day Two coverage of Tavistock Cup will be broadcast live on the Golf Channel from noon to 5 p.m. EST Tuesday. Tavistockcup.com also features live real-time scoring of the tournament. Tavistock Cup will be televised live in the U.S., Canada and Japan on the Golf Channel and to more than 40 countries around the globe through a network of international affiliates. TavistockCup.com will also feature real-time live scoring of the matches.
ABOUT TAVISTOCK GROUP
Tavistock Group is a private investment company founded by Joe Lewis. The Group has grown to encompass a broad portfolio of investments around the world in the following sectors: life sciences, sports teams (Tottenham Hotspur Football Club) and sporting events (Tavistock Cup, Isleworth Collegiate Invitational), manufacturing and distribution (Puma, Gottex, Vans), oil and gas, financial services, restaurants (California Cafe, Napa Valley Grille), private luxury residential properties and master-planned real estate developments. Private club communities include Isleworth and Lake Nona Golf & Country Club both located in Orlando, Florida. Lake Nona forms a cornerstone holding to the Group's current innovative, 7,000-acre mixed-use development plan highlighted by a life sciences cluster known as Lake Nona's medical city. Tavistock Group, Tiger Woods and Ernie Els have partnered to develop Albany, a luxury resort community on the island of New Providence in The Bahamas. Albany will feature a broad array of amenities for all members of the family including a luxury boutique hotel, an Ernie Els-designed 18-hole championship golf course and a mega-yacht marina flanked by luxury residences designed by some of the most respected architects in the world.
For more information on Tavistock Group, visit www.tavistock.com.
SOURCE Tavistock Group
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