Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy from Northern Ireland headline a very strong International contingent of stars at The Honda Classic this week at the PGA National Resort & Spa in Palm Beach Gardens.
WGc-Accenture Natch Play winner Luke Donald, Lee Westwood and 2008 Honda champion Ernie Els of South Africa are some of the international names playing the Honda Classic.
2007 Honda champion Mark Wilson, whose two early 2011 victories at the Sony Open in Hawaii and the Waste Management Phoenix Open have him atop the current money list and Fed Ex Cup standings also competes.
Several Top 50 World-Ranked players are committed to play including Matt Kuchar, the 2010 TOUR money champion with $4,910,477, Sweden's Robert Karlsson, British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen from South Africa, Italian Edoardo Molinari, South African Charl Schwartzel , Aussie Robert Allenby, Rickie Fowler, Anthony Kim , England's Ross Fisher, Ben Crane, Japan's Yuta Ikeda, Honda Classic defending champion Camilo Villegas from Colombia, 2009 Honda champion Y.E. Yang from South Korea, Bo Van Pelt and Japan's Hiroyuki Fujita .
Other notables names inluced two-time Honda champion (1987, 1998) Mark Calcavecchia, 1999 champion Vijay Singh, 2003 champion Justin Leonard, 1994 champion Nick Price, Stewart Cink, Rocco Mediate, 2001 champion Jesper Parnevik, and Kenny Perry.
The 2011 edition of The Honda Classic will be played February 28th - March 6th at PGA National Resort & Spa.
