World number one Tiger Woods is expected to play in this week's PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Hawaii despite injuring his ankle before winning the Dunlop Phoenix tournament in Japan yesterday.
"Tiger is not playing in today's pro-am because of a stomach virus but, as things stand, he will be teeing off in tomorrow's first round," a tournament spokesman at the Poipu Bay Golf Course in Kauai said today.
Woods, who clinched a record five Grand Slam titles in a row from 1998, aggravated an injury to his left ankle on the first of four extra holes against Japan's Kaname Yokoo in Miyazaki before securing his seventh title of the season.
The US Masters and British Open champion will face the challenge in Hawaii of US Open winner Michael Campbell, US PGA champion Phil Mickelson and world number two Vijay Singh.
The elite four-man event, which will be played over two rounds starting on Tuesday, brings together the winners of the season's four major championships.
Fijian Singh, the second alternate for the tournament, took the place of first alternate Retief Goosen, who is spending time in his native South Africa.
Offering a $1 million purse, the Grand Slam of Golf is being held this week for the 23rd time, and for the 12th consecutive year at Poipu Bay Golf Course.
Left-hander Mickelson won last year's title by five shots after becoming the fifth man in history to shoot 59 at a top-level event.
The American went out in 28 and his 13-under-par final round included 11 birdies and an eagle.
Three men in PGA Tour history, all Americans, had previously fired a 59, the first of them Al Geiberger at the 1977 Memphis Classic.
Chip Beck and David Duval then matched the feat before Sweden's Annika Sorenstam became the first female to achieve the mark in 2001.