Woods eager for triple play

Tiger Woods wasn't about to fall for the $1-million question this time.
The last time the Ryder Cup was held in Europe, Woods played the week before the matches and gave tabloids plenty of headline material when asked which event he would rather win.
He chose the American Express Championship at Mount Juliet and its $1-million US prize.
"Why? I can think of a million reasons," Woods said that day.

Woods' three-week tour of England and Ireland begins today at the World Match Play Championship, which has the richest official prize money in the world with 1 million pounds (Cdn$2.1 million) going to the winner. It ends with the American Express Championship outside London, a World Golf Championship that pays US$1.3 million for first place.
In between is that exhibition over in Ireland that offers only a 17-in. gold cup.
The question inevitably came up again this week. Would he rather win 1 million pounds or the Ryder Cup?
"All three events I play in," Woods said.

It was a diplomatic answer, for sure, but not hard to imagine.
Woods will try to win his sixth consecutive tournament at the HSBC World Match Play Championship, a streak that began with his British Open victory at Hoylake in July and continued with his victory outside Boston two weeks ago, when he closed with a 63 to rally from three shots down to Vijay Singh.

"I would say he's favoured to win every event he enters, this being no different," Scotland's Colin Montgomerie said yesterday. "But match play is a strange game. It's a different game and, over 36 holes, the cream usually rises to the top. "I would expect Tiger to be in the final, wouldn't you?"