This season Tiger Woods has hit a stomp in his game and has yet to maintain a positive win in recent tournaments. Tiger has missed three consecutive majors and has trouble with just getting into tournaments. On Friday and Saturday at the Wyndham Championship, Tiger was making a statement that he still can be in contention to win. In those two days Tiger was tied for first with Davis Love III and had a sell crowd of 34,000 rooting for him.
“I kept leaving myself in tough spots above the hole on every single hole,” Woods said. “I had to putt too defensively because of it. Consequently I didn’t make a run with a bunch of birdies. I saw Jason and Jonas went out there and shot a number. You can do it, just put yourself below the hole. Greens are so smooth and perfect, just put it in the right spots and you can run the tables.”
“I gave myself a chance and I had all the opportunity in the world today to do it. I didn’t get it done,” Woods told the PGA Tour’s official website after his final-round even-par 70 left him well outside the top 125 in the standings.
The world number 257 had needed to win the PGA Tour event to qualify for next week’s opening tournament of the FedEx Cup playoffs, but a triple bogey at the 11th and a bogey at the 12th ultimately proved costly. He dropped from first to tenth, but all that matters was he showed fans that he still could contend despite his troubles with making cuts in tournaments.
Woods was very optimistic about having some time off to keep back into shape and this is what he had to say about his time off; “I have a lots of soccer games and practice to go to, so I’ll be doing that and just working out, training and trying to get more fit.”
“I made the seventh, which was solid,” Woods said. “Right in the middle of the hole. Practice makes putting perfect. “I had some putts that I could have made, but missed. I just wasn’t able to get any kind of roll early. I had my chances to get it going. I just never did.”
The 10th place finish was his first since 2013. He was four shots off eventual winner Davis Love III, which means Woods’ next appearance on the PGA Tour will come in October. This was the first time Tiger played at Wydnham and even though he was a top ten candidate, he had actually a pretty good game.