Golf used to have a prominent place on the Thanksgiving weekend calendar with The Skins Game.
That made-for-TV event ended in 2008 but Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will have their own high-stakes showdown Friday.
After years of discussion, the two will compete in ''The Match'' at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas, a $9-million winner-take-all event that will air on pay-per-view.
The two have combined for 123 PGA Tour victories and 19 majors but had struggled in recent years.
Mickelson said the original premise was both partnering up with some of the sport's younger stars, but television executives and fans have always wanted to see the two go head to head.
Woods and Mickelson already have high stakes on the first hole.
Mickelson said he would wager $100,000 that he would birdie the first hole and Woods doubled it.