New Delhi, November 2023.

Tiger Woods and Dr Pawan Munjal with the VIDA V1 at the Hero World Challenge 2023.

Tiger Woods will swing a club in a competitive round for the first time since pulling out of the third round at the Augusta Masters. And the purse for this elite event, which has been US$3.5 million since 2014, when Hero took over the sponsorship, has been enhanced to a healthy US$4.5 million and is slated to go further up to US$5 million next year, said Dr Pawan Munjal, Executive Chairman of the Hero MotoCorp.