From the time he joined the PGA Tour in 1995, to his last major win in 2008, Woods missed two cuts in major championships.
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Even after another disappointing day at the PGA Championship – where his sand wedge replaced his putter as the main player in his nightmare – Woods committed to playing next week in the Wyndham Championship, giving him one more chance to squeak into the FedEx Cup playoffs. After finishing tied for 17th at The Masters, Woods missed the cut at the U.S. Open, the British Open and now, this week at Whistling Straits. Only the top 125 advance to the first FedEx Cup playoff event, the Barclays, the week of August. 24. Compared to his rocky year, he was having a great round, hitting tons of fairways, attacking greens, largely allowing himself to avoid the short game that has plagued him all season long.
In any case, the Wanamaker Trophy will go Sunday to someone other than the two dominant figures of their golf generation.
“If I don’t win this event”, Woods said, “I’ll have my offseason early“.
“I’m just going to sit back and I’ll go through it with my team”.
When that news broke, it made me look back and wonder about that year’s PGA Championship.
“The confidence is growing quickly”, Woods said. And I still have plenty of golf to be played for the rest of the year.
Jones made a birdie to get to 10 under for the tournament, while fellow Aussie Jason Day finished his second round with a bogey and is in the clubhouse at 9-under 135. “Everything I need to do is just make sure that I focus and prepare myself for tomorrow [Sunday]”.
Spieth, 22, who becomes the second youngest world number one after Tiger Woods, said: “It feels really good“.
Standing well below the ball in a greenside bunker on No. 4, Woods took a huge chunk of sand, but instead of flying out, the ball popped up and dribbled into the next bunker down.
Always an erratic driver, Woods’ fourth swing change has only amplified his tee shot inaccuracy.
“I don’t want to say it was an easy day, but we communicated well with one another and it was good talks back and forth”, Stricker said.
Well, after past year, it was a bit of a surprise to see Billy Horschel come away with the $10,000,00o prize. “Now if I can start putting like I did today or what I did at Quicken Loans a couple weeks ago, then we have got something”. He also received an exemption into December’s Hero World Challenge, a tournament he hosts. McIlroy, in his first tournament since rupturing a left ankle ligament last month, said he was taking time off “to sort of reassess everything”.
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Nicklaus won two majors when he was 40, and another when he was 46.
