Tiger Woods Press Conference, Augusta National 

Qn: This is our first time speaking to you since the PGA TOUR rolled out its new designated events schedule, and you said in the past the record you’re most proud of is the consecutive cuts made streak; that you took a lot of pride in that. What’s your thought about the direction of the PGA TOUR and, namely, getting rid of the cuts in some of these events?

TIGER WOODS:  “Yeah, there’s still some ongoing discussions about some of the designated events and whether or not we’re going to have cuts going forward. I certainly am pushing for my event to have a cut. I think that maybe the player-hosted events may have cuts. These are things that Jack and I are still in discussion with Jay and the board and the TOUR and the rest of the guys. That still is in flux.

“I still think that there needs to be a penalty for not playing well, and to have that — every event shouldn’t be always guaranteed 72 holes. I think that there should be a cut there. But we are trying to figure that out. And you know, what designated events those are going to be, how many are there going to be, that’s still ongoing. But that conversation is still being had.”

NOTE …

Woods set the all-time PGA Tour record for most consecutive cuts made, with 142 tournaments.

The streak started in 1998, with Woods setting the record at the 2003 Tour Championship with 114 (passing Byron Nelson’s previous record of 113 and Jack Nicklaus at 105) and extended this mark to 142 before it ended on May 13, 2005 at the EDS Byron Nelson Championship.