Golf: Gallery of stars vie for big prize

SHANGHAI: World number two Lee Westwood and US Open champion Rory McIlroy are heading a powerful field chasing the biggest winner’s cheque in golf at the Lake Malaren Shanghai Masters starting today. The glitzy competition is the latest exhibition in China to attract some of the game’s biggest names but as an unsanctioned event it carries no rankings points for the players. Westwood and McIlroy will vie for the $2 million winner’s cheque at the inaugural tournament along with Masters champion Charl Schwartzel and PGA Championship winner Keegan Bradley.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 27^th, 2011.