Love wins the Wyndham, while Tiger struggles in final round

Love’s comeback might just beginning. He entered in pursuit of the win that would have gained him entry into the Barclays this week, the first of the four play-off tournaments that close the PGA Tour season.

Anyone who follows me on my Fox Sports Radio Daybreak show with Andy Furman knows I’ve been saying for years Tiger Woods wouldn’t win another major or even a tournament. The foot surgery that sidelined him for nearly three months was more extensive than he’d expected and until the Wyndham Championship he’d struggled to walk 72 holes in a single week. As it turned out, he said that was a wise decision.

At 51 years, four months and 10 days old, Love trails only Sam Snead and Art Wall as the oldest winners on the US tour.

He’s playing at times on the Champions Tour now with the seniors and again focusing on being the U.S. Ryder Cup team captain. He finished at 17 under, then waited as seven other groups had to complete their rounds before he nailed down the victory. However, he failed to save par from 10 feet at the treacherous Road Hole and was unable to find the birdie he needed at the last to get into the play-off. He was in a class of his own throughout the tournament, opening with rounds of 65 and 69 to open up a six-shot lead at the halfway stage. Although he has not officially committed, his agent, Mark Steinberg, previously said he would play the tournament. But ages wasn’t much a difference Sunday when Love and Ko won on their respective tours.

“I always keep a positive attitude out here”, Love said.

Only two strokes off the lead at the start of the final day, he performed dismally by his standards to end with a ranking of 178 on 70 after killing his challenge with a triple bogey on a the four par 11 hole.

“Any victory now when you’re over 50 is really sweet”, Love, who earned a berth in the lucrative FedExCup playoffs with the win, told reporters.

“I made the seventh, which was solid”, Woods said. “I didn’t get it done”.

Instead, one hole derailed any chance he had of winning on the PGA Tour for the first time in two years. Scott Brown (68), Charl Schwartzel (66) and Paul Casey (67) were two strokes behind Love.

“You just wonder…is the body going to wear out?”

Still, there was a highlight when he drained a hole-in-one on No. 3. That whole story came out circa his last major and it obviously took a huge emotional tool on Tiger. I had a sand wedge in my hand at 8 and didn’t make birdie there. Woods would not elaborate on his sore hip, claiming only that it would not have kept him out of the Barclays had he made the field.

Gore goes into the final round looking to add a second career win 10 years after he captured the 2005 84 Lumber Classic. But this result gives him only his third top-10 finish across a six-year period.

The Englishman, who led from the first round, bogeyed the 14th and 16th holes but finished with two pars for a 13-under total of 271. He notched eagles on both of the course’s par-5s.