Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland, right, and Tiger Woods of the United States pose at the opening ceremony of The Match at Mission Hills in Haikou city, south Chinas Hainan province, 28 October 2013. Rory McIlroy finally tasted success for the first time this year when he beat an ailing Tiger Woods by one shot in a megabucks exhibition match in China on Monday (28 October 2013). In the Match at Mission Hills, at a sprawling golf complex on Hainan Island, the Northern Irish world number six shot six-under-par 66 to Woods 67 in the one-round face-off. McIlroy, who has dropped off the top of the rankings and has not won a tournament all year, also beat Woods by one shot in a similar Chinese event last year. Mondays victory, at the same venue where he won the World Cup with Graeme McDowell in 2011, will give him a boost ahead of this weeks WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai.
