2009-12-24 - Tiger's absence 'may boost US PGA move to Asia'
 World number one Tiger Woods's absence from golf may prompt the US PGA Tour to court sponsors more aggressively in Asia, further embracing Japanese teenage star Ryo Ishikawa, a Japan Tour executive says.

 

The European Tour has tapped the booming Asian market over years but the US body started to look at the region only "in the past year or two," Japan Golf Tour Organisation senior director Hiroshi Yamanaka said.

 

"Asia is where money moves and gathers," he told AFP as global sponsors started to desert the 33-year-old American superstar following his announcement of an "indefinite" break from the game amid an infidelity scandal.

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