Tiger Woods opens his 2015 season today with his participation in the golf tournament that holds the world record for crowds, with more than 189,722 spectators in the field registered on the third day last year. It is the Waste Management Phoenix Open, which is being played at TPC Scottsdale in Arizona (pictured).
This is the first PGA Tour tournament that the former number one has played since last August. Woods, after months of inactivity due to an injury and with a change of coach in between, played another competition in December, in which he finished in last place.
Nine of the top 10 players in the FedExCup standings are competing in the Waste Management Phoenix Open, as are 12 of the top 25 in the world rankings. Woods had not played in this tournament since 2001. Phil Mickelson, an alumnus of nearby Arizona State University, is a fixture in the competition, which he has won three times. One figure to watch is Jordan Spieth, who is making his Phoenix Open debut after winning his last two events, the Australia Open and the Hero World Challenge.
Incidentally, another of the world’s most watched sporting events, the Super Bowl of American soccer (more than 110 million viewers), is also played in Phoenix on Sunday.
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