Champions Challenge Returns At 2015 Open Championship

Cancelled in 2010 due to adverse weather, the R&A has announced they will be bringing back the Champions Challenge at St. Andrews this year. Played at 4 pm on the eve of The Open Championship, headliners include Tom Watson and Peter Thomson, who is celebrating the 60th anniversary of his Open win at The Old Course.

A wire story on the event, a four-hole team based shootout that plays 1, 2, 17 and 18. A concert will kick things off (I'm feeling bagpipes, but don't hold me to that).

Golf fans will also be delighted to see three-time Champions Gary Player, Nick Faldo and Tiger Woods playing in the event alongside the 1963 and 1969 Champions, Bob Charles and Tony Jacklin, and more recent winners such as Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els, Darren Clarke and Padraig Harrington.

Among the other champions confirmed so far are Louis Oosthuizen, who won The Open in 2010, the last time it was played in St Andrews, Stewart Cink, David Duval, Paul Lawrie, Mark O`Meara, Justin Leonard, John Daly and Sandy Lyle.

The occasion will also be used to pay tribute to Australia`s Kel Nagle, who won the Centenary Open in 1960 at St Andrews and who passed away in January at the age of 94.