No sooner had Rory McIlroy ended a PGA Championship guessing game and now Tiger Woods has everyone wondering will he play or won’t he contest next week’s Wyndham Championship in North Carolina.
Woods has entered the event at Greensboro but then that doesn’t mean he will compete.
And given Woods has never contested the event in his near 20-year pro career he could very well decide to pull the play on his season.
Tiger Woods now plays a guessing game after missing the cut in the PGA Championship. (Picture Eoin Clarke, www.golffile.ie)
Woods’ sorry run of outs continued early Saturday morning Wisconsin time when the former four-time PGA champion missed the halfway cut at Whistling Straits.
Friday night’s severe electrical storm meant Woods to return early Saturday morning Wisconsin time to play his five remaining holes, and he did so in even par for a four over par total and miss the cut by two shots.
It is the fourth time in just 10 events he’s played this season that Woods has not played all four rounds, and at 278th on the World Rankings, Woods will edge ever closer to dropping outside the top-300.
A check of Woods’ stats over the second round reveals he hit just four of 11 fairways but then needed 33 putts, and a day after he was heard uttering, in leaving a putt well short on the third green, what the golf world in general has long been asking and that was to scream: “What the f*** are you doing?”
To his continuing enormous credit Woods entertained a dozen questions after his round, and a dozen more than any other struggling former top sportsperson.
“It’s frustrating to miss cuts because any time you miss a cut, you don’t have a chance to win the event,” he said.
“Even if you’re way out of it, we saw Paul Lawrie come back from 10 shots in one day to win the ’99 Open. But then you have to give yourself that opportunity and I haven’t given myself that opportunity in the last few Majors.”
And whether or not he will tee up in Greensboro for a very first occasion Woods said: “I’m just going to sit back and I’ll go through that decision with my team.
“We will talk about it, what I need to do and see if that’s the right move for me or not. So we will decide in the next couple of days.”
But then Woods was put on the spot when quizzed if he does not compete in Greensboro could it be the end of his season, even though he will surely again host December’s non-PGA Tour Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas.
“People have been asking me is it your season, and could this be my season,” he said.
“No, it’s not really about the season, it’s about the year. I just haven’t come to grips with this whole non-calendar season yet, and this whole wraparound schedule thing, so for me I still consider it a year.
“I still have plenty of golf to play for the rest of the year, and as I said, on a global level.”
