(SportsNetwork.com) – Tianlang Guan, who made a big first impression at the Masters last April, will join Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy at Mission Hills next week for a skills session.<\/p>\n
Woods will travel to China to face McIlroy in The Match at Mission Hills. McIlroy is already in China for this week’s European Tour event, the BMW Masters.<\/p>\n
Guan finished 58th at the Masters, then took 71st at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. He missed the cut in his other three PGA Tour starts.<\/p>\n
“I met Tiger at the HSBC Championship when I was 12, and we played a par-3 hole together. Met him the second time at Mission Hills Shenzhen and received a trophy from him. And, of course, I got to play with him for 9 holes at Augusta National on the Tuesday of the Masters; it was a dream come true, as everyone knows he is my idol,” Guan said. “I haven’t played with Rory before, but we had a nice chat at the Masters. He was very supportive and said he wasn’t as good as me when he was 14. He is humble and a very sweet guy.”<\/p>\n
The trio will appear at a junior clinic, as well as participate in a skills challenge before the Woods\/McIlory match.<\/p>\n
“I can’t say how much in terms of golfing skills I have learned from the instructor, but I shall say the whole experience did inspire and motivate me to practice harder and become a better golfer,” Guan said having attended a past junior clinic that Woods put on at Mission Hills.<\/p>\n
Woods and McIlroy will next do battle in two weeks at the Turkish Airlines Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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