 Langer was also a late call-up for last year's tournament |
Eight of the world's leading players have pulled out of the �1m World Match Play championship at Wentworth. The list of withdrawals includes the world's top four - Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh, Phil Mickelson and Ernie Els as well as Sergio Garcia.
Americans Chris DiMarco, Fred Couples and Davis Love have also turned down the chance to play in the 16-man field.
Germany's Bernhard Langer has stepped in as one of the replacements for the event, which starts in two weeks.
As well as Langer, there will be seven other Europeans in the line-up - David Howell, Paul McGinley, Colin Montgomerie, Kenneth Ferrie, Luke Donald, Thomas Bjorn and Jose Maria Olazabal.
Completing the field are Australians Steve Elkington, Mark Hensby and Geoff Ogilvy, South Africans Retief Goosen, Trevor Immelman and Tim Clark, New Zealand's US Open champion Michael Campbell and Argentina's Angel Cabrera.
First round losers in the event earn �60,000.
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