Woods positive after another missed cut

If Tiger needs any shot at stepping into the FedEx Cup playoffs, he’s in all probability going to need to -… I haven’t put together ball striking and putting. “Now if I can start putting like I did (Saturday) or what I did at Quicken Loans a couple weeks ago, then we got something”. I finally rolled the ball coming in and unfortunately it was too little, too late. But Woods has proven he can do things most other guys can’t, so we wouldn’t write him off just yet.

Three times this season he shot in the 80s – at the Waste Management Phoenix Open (82), at the Memorial (85) and in the first round of the U.S. Open (80).

Woods, who missed the cut at the PGA Championship, was the ninth-highest paid athlete of the past 12 months according to a ranking by Forbes.

He’ll be watching the final two rounds of the PGA Championship like most fans, in front of a television set.

Mike O’Reilly, the head golf pro at Whistling Straits, accepted an invitation to become a playing “marker” for Morgan Hoffmann, who began the third round alone at 9:15 a.m., after the 36-hole cut left an odd-numbered 77 players for the weekend. “The only way you can do that is by playing and, as I said, I have a lot of golf to be played around the world [in 2015]”.

On Friday, Woods committed to play in next week’s Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C., a tournament in which he never has played. The top 125 in points qualify for the playoffs, and Woods was at No. 186 entering the PGA Championship. Like a wily veteran baseball pitcher, Woods has lost some speed of his fastball – he’s not able to hurl it 100 miles per hour and strike out 17 batters. No, it’s not really about the season, it’s about the year. I just need to do both at the same time. So there’s plenty of golf left to be played for the rest of the year.

Woods will turn 40 in December, which is the number that usually spells the beginning of the end in golf. If Matt Jones wins, maybe he’ll buy drinks for everyone in the hospitality chalet he visited during Saturday’s third round.

Noteworthy: Day has had at least a share of the lead at all three majors this year. Dustin Johnson collapsed at the US Open on the final day this year whilst Rory McIlroy blew his chances of the green jacket in 2011. Woods is a great golfer in name and history only.

Woods said his biggest issue remains round-to-round consistency.

“That’s the fun part”, he said.

“Hopefully I can hit the ball as well as I did today tomorrow and make some putts”, he said. “Even if you’re way out of it, we saw Paul Lawrie come back from 10 shots in one day, but you have to give yourself that opportunity and I haven’t given myself that opportunity in the last few majors”.