But he said after missing the cut Saturday that if he played in Greensboro, it would be more about the big picture.
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Tiger Woods will attempt to bounce back from his latest Major disappointment on Thursday when he tees off at the Wyndham Championship hoping for an unlikely victory to catapult him into the Fedex Cup playoffs.
His tie for 17th at the Masters remains the brightest spot in his season, and Woods says he has yet to get all aspects of his game firing at once.
He is two clear of fellow Aussie Jason Day and three clear of Justin Rose. His last few events this season have shown a lot of improvement. He did nothing here at Whistling Straits to change that as his struggles in major tournaments continued. “But I really feel like he thinks he’s close to some sort of good form and found a little something with his putter toward the end of the (PGA Championship)”.
Woods should be heading to contest this week’s Wyndham Championship in North Carolina but it appears he may pull the plug on the event after his erratic display at Whistling Straits. After a third missed cut on the spin at a major this season – on this occasion by four strokes after a second- round 73 – there is only futility in that.
“The confidence is growing quickly”, he said Saturday. “I’m hitting shots and able to hit shots that I haven’t been able to hit in years, and that’s nice again”. And to have the control that I need to have going forward… Spieth, No. 2 in the world, played a bogey-free round to enter Sunday in second place at 13-under.
Woods committed Friday to play the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C., next week for the first time in his career, but said Saturday he’s still not sure if he’ll play (there is no penalty if he pulls out, and he promised to let officials know early next week if that’s the case).
Woods is 186th in the FedEx Cup standings, 279 points behind 125th – where he would need to be to qualify.
This will be the fourth straight year Paul has played in the pro-am.
“I played ball with him in the rec league”, said Gary Hill, Wyndham Spectator.
Camillo Villegas turned around an ordinary year in 2014 when he took the title by one shot over Freddie Jacobson and Bill Haas.
Gardiner, who has been injured, gets his last start on a medical exemption which will not carry over until next year and even though not totally fit is taking advantage of the chance to play. But his inability to win a major tournament since the 2008 U.S. Open seems to be on his mind every time he takes a club back, and for good reason. “I just never had the speed right“.
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The 14-time major champion initially raised doubts as to whether he’d feature this week when he told reporters he’d “decide in the next couple of days”, but eventually decided to make an appearance in the event for the first time.
