May 14: Tiger Woods says Vijay Singh was wrong to object to Annika Sorenstam playing on the America men's tour next week. Sorenstam will become the first woman to play on the men's tour since Babe Zaharias, who qualified for the 1945 Los Angeles Open, at next week's Colonial Tournament. Singh was reported to have said he would withdraw from the tournament if drawn against Sorenstam, although he has since denied the attack. "It's unfortunate Vijay said that - very unfortunate," said Woods, who will miss the Texan tournament while he continues his recuperation from knee surgery in December. "I don't think his is a widely-held view - I think it's just Vijay's opinion. My message to Annika is 'just go and play'. "I think it would have been more fair for her to have four or five starts. Then you can judge. "Colonial is very difficult and it would be a great performance if she makes the (halfway) cut - a fantastic performance." Woods' manager is also Sorenstam's manager and he was consulted over which tournament she should play in once she made it clear she was interested in competing on the US Tour. The men's world number one was among those who arrived at the Gut Kaden course in Hamburg on Wednesday for the Deutsche Bank-SAP Open. The tournament is set to go ahead as planned despite all 18 greens being hit by a disease known as Fusarium patch. A letter was sent to all European Tour players last week notifying them of the problem, but Bernhard Langer said on Wednesday: "The course is absolutely playable.

"We thought it would be worse than it is - the greens are not going to be perfect, but we hardly every play on perfect greens. "The ball is rolling quite well and it's only certain areas where they are some problems." Tournament director Mikael Eriksson said: "We would not be here if we didn't think it was playable."

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