The Wyndham Championship is the final tournament before the cutoff for the Cup, which is the PGA Tour’s playoff event and is restricted to the top 125 in the standings. Woods tied for 18th at the Quicken Loans National last week, though that was only enough for him to move up 12 spots to No. 185.
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Ron doesn’t think this will happen unless Tiger makes significant changes to his game, “he could do that but he has to reinvent himself, and I don’t see a willingness to make changes”.
However, if he struggles at Whistling Straits, the 39-year-old admits he is likely to call time on his campaign, as there would be little point in him competing in the final event of the regular season, the Wyndham Championship. “By playing well in the PGA, that determines whether or not I’ll play Wyndham, and obviously the rest of the FedEx Cup playoffs”.
“Winning my fifth PGA would be nice”, he said.
“Well, kind of amusing I won there a couple years ago”, said Woods last week. Woods, with his three cuts and just two top-20 finishes in nine starts in 2015, rued not making it into this week’s WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone, where he has won eight times. Graeme McDowell is at No. 159, although he will get a crack at what quantities to free factors this week at Firestone, which has no minimize.
“Hey, we can all be “Ranger Rick” and hit golf good shots on the range, but to carry it to the golf course and a golf tournament is another story, and I’m finally able to start doing that now”, said Woods. The Tiger Woods Foundation has been the tournament’s primary charitable beneficiary since the event debuted in 2003, and it has run the day-to-day operations of the event each of the past two times it’s been held.
“There comes a point in time in every athlete’s career where you know that your best isn’t good enough anymore, and I’m definitely not at that point yet”, said Woods, who has gone two years since his last victory.
Woods mentioned Vijay Singh and Sam Snead, who both won major championships in their 40s.
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“Quit and retire, you suck” is just one piece of unsolicited advice Tiger Woods has received since his game took a nosedive over the previous year of so.
