Twenty-four of the world's top-ranked golfers will compete in the 2011 Tavistock Cup, which returns to Isleworth Golf & Country Club March 14 and 15. The eighth installment of the team event will feature a four-club competition for the first time between the golf professional members of Albany, Isleworth, Lake Nona Golf & Country Club and Queenwood Golf Club.
Tim Clark, Ernie Els, Trevor Immelman, Ian Poulter, Justin Rose and Tiger Woods will represent Team Albany. A new luxury resort community in The Bahamas developed by Tavistock Group, Woods and Els, Albany has amassed a total of 198 worldwide victories. Five of Team Albany's players are ranked in the top 30 in the world.
Team Isleworth's lineup features Robert Allenby, Stuart Appleby, Brian Davis, J.B. Holmes, Sean O'Hair and Lee Janzen. Isleworth, a luxury residential community nestled amongst the Butler Chain of Lakes in southwest Orlando, has notched 244 worldwide wins. Isleworth's players include four of the top 70 in the world.
Team Lake Nona has assembled Ross Fisher, Retief Goosen, Peter Hanson, Graeme McDowell, Henrik Stenson and Oliver Wilson. Lake Nona boasts a victory roster of 319 worldwide wins. Ranked among the top residential courses in the world, Lake Nona is situated in southeast Orlando and forms a cornerstone to Tavistock Group's emerging life sciences cluster becoming known as Lake Nona Medical City. Each player on Team Lake Nona is ranked in the top 100 in the world.
Team Queenwood's competitors include Thomas Bjorn, Darren Clarke, David Howell, Soren Kjeldsen, Paul McGinley and Adam Scott. Queenwood, one of the most exclusive private members' golf clubs in the United Kingdom, has secured 64 worldwide victories. Queenwood features four players in the top 110 in the world, as well as a number of Ryder Cup veterans.
Through 2010, Tavistock Cup's participating clubs have won more than 825 worldwide victories, including 59 major championships.
Tavistock Cup's world-class field hails from all corners of the globe, making this year's tournament the most internationally diverse one yet.
Tavistock Cup contestants play for prize money, team hole-in-one prizes and the title of World Golf and Country Club Champion.
Established in 2004, the Tavistock Cup began as a friendly interclub match between Isleworth and Lake Nona's golf professional members. The past seven matches have left Isleworth and Lake Nona tied in the series. Each club has claimed three Tavistock Cup titles, with the 2005 matches ending in a tie following a sudden-death playoff.
The Tavistock Cup through the Tavistock Foundation has donated millions of dollars to local, national and international charities since the tournament's inception. Some of this year's beneficiaries include Audubon of Florida, The First Tee, Health Central Foundation, Orlando Minority Youth Golf Association, University of Central Florida Foundation and Valencia College.
The two-day tournament will be broadcast live on the Golf Channel in the U.S., Canada and Japan and airs on international affiliates throughout the United Kingdom, Latin America and South Africa. TavistockCup.com will feature real-time live scoring of the matches.
