Tiger Woods could add Wyndham Championship to schedule if PGA goes well

ROOKIE RACE: It might take the FedEx Cup playoffs to decide who wins a good race for PGA Tour rookie of the year. The Quicken Loans National offered 34 ranking points to the victor.

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“A dream finally came true”, he exclaimed.

“Hopefully I can play next week at the Bridgestone if everything goes well this week and then we’ll see about Wyndham after that and hopefully I’ll be in the playoffs”, Woods told reporters. In addition, limiting the amount of tournaments he participates in will keep him fresh.

Merritt, who fired a tournament-record 61 on Saturday, finished 72 holes at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club on 18-under 266 for a three-stroke victory over Fowler with Lingmerth third on 270.

Wood still seems a long way from being ready to win a tournament, but considering at the start of the year he had the short-game yips and later, a driver that had no direction, he’s definitely improving.

“It allows me to shrink my schedule just a little it so I can spend more time at home watching my boys grow up and be with my wife”, Merritt explained.

He credits two easy adjustments on the practice range.

We’re on the verge of the final major of the year, and the world’s best are tuning up in Akron, Ohio, for the final World Golf Championships event of the year, the Bridgestone Invitational.

Since then he missed seven of nine cuts, including the last five consecutive heading into Quicken Loans National. “I made sure I didn’t flip it on two…”A hooked approach shot into 13 led to another bogey and he didn’t make a birdie until he rolled in an 11-footer on 15”. “I couldn’t quite figure it out”. “You’re just reacting. That’s all it was”.

“Oh, absolutely”, Merritt replied, when asked if he was beginning to feel the pressure.

He is seeking his first WGC victory. Many believe he needs to play well at the PGA Championship to get him within striking distance of the top 125, and the extra points available for playing well in a major could give him the boost that he, and the Wyndham, needs. He’s swinging more in rhythm, flushing his iron shots close, and making birdie putts and crucial par saves.

According to Merritt, it corrected his “contact and speed control” on the green. Made sure I didn’t flip it on two.

“After I was able to roll in birdies on Nos”. “I’m starting to pump the ball out there again and I know my lofts of my irons are very weak compared to today’s standards”.

Inbee Park of South Korea lines up her putt on the 3rd green during the final day of the Women’s … His season is not. “That leaves kind of a bad taste in my mouth, not because of the third in a row, but strictly because you don’t get many opportunities to contend in a major, in an Open Championship at St Andrews, in your life”.

What immediately ensued was a sigh of relief that did not just encompass one round, one tournament, or one season, but rather his entire career. This is one that everyone wants to have on their résumé, and there’s certainly other goals that come out of trying to win this week, too, for me personally.