Ranking the last 10 PGA Championships (2005-14)

Namely: what if Jordan Spieth had been in the playoff?

What if the Grand Slam had still been on the line?

Woods has endured a miserable season as he struggles to fine-tune a new swing, recording three scores in the 80s in the space of six events and missing the cut in consecutive majors for the first time ever at Chambers Bay and St Andrews.

Let us answer that: you bet he’d have watched.

Woods said two weeks ago he would wait to see how he played in this week’s PGA Championship before making a decision on the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C. He has till the end of his round Friday to commit to the Wyndham.

McIlroy, who won last year’s PGA Championship by one shot after a final-round shootout that finished in near darkness, has been out of action since he ruptured a ligament in his ankle while playing soccer with friends on July 4.

It’s no fluke. It’s not coincidence.

Three Majors played this year, none in McIlroy’s possession. That was the hardest part for me and I certainly have a chip on my shoulder about that Major that I’m wanting to get off. Jordan has played phenomenal golf for the last 12 months.

“And you wanted to contend and have a chance to win at least one of them (the majors)”.

“I recognise that there’s only been a couple times that people have won three majors in a year, and that I would be in just such special company”, Spieth told the Telegraph.

Who are the favorites in this year’s field? Woods sounded today like he realized where his game is and that it is a long way from being in contention for a major, or a regular tour event.

Besides, he said his short game has remained sharp because he has been working on it all along. The greatest player of his generation, at the moment, is an afterthought. His confidence is at an wonderful high and there seems to be no apparent chinks in his armour. “Building momentum will be a key for me”, Lahiri said on Tuesday.

“Even though I’m not that much older, I think if I was – he was 21 at that point – I probably wouldn’t have handled it quite as well as he did”. “And I don’t know what changed, but I felt a lot more calm”. That’s what I have done over most of my career. “I expect him to get it back and get it going again”.

“Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing, I don’t know”, he said. “And that’s something that I can bring in with me this week, knowing that, OK, it’s a big deal, but no matter what happens this week, only a very small percentage of the population really care”. McIlroy is 22 strokes better in that stretch, but he pointed out that some of those rounds were before Spieth, who just turned 22, was the player he is now. The better your selected players do on the course, the better your fantasy team does, the more money you make.