Tiger stalks Gore in search of title win

Tiger Woods roared back after over a year in the doldrums to tie for the lead in the Wyndham Championship on Friday.

Turning back the clock at age 51, the former North Carolina All-America had a pair of eagles in a 6-under-par 64 Sunday, surging from behind for a one-shot victory over third-round leader Jason Gore.

Davis Love III won by one stroke.

“If you look at my game and Tiger’s game, we’re making a lot of progress, both of us”, Love said via PGATour.com.

Woods needed to win the tournament to get into the FedExCup Playoffs.

Woods started the day two strokes from the lead but did not make a birdie until the ninth hole at Sedgefield. He fired an even-par 70 on Sunday and finished four strokes back at 13-under par.

“I made the seventh, which was solid”, Woods said.

“I pulled my tee shot just a touch”, he said of his nightmarish 11th. Sam Snead was a year older when he won the 1965 Greater Greensboro Open, which is now the Wyndham Championship.

Woods should be encouraged by Love III’s victory. His earlier two wins got here throughout city at Forest Oaks Nation Membership in 1992 and 2006, and he had only one win since then – on the 2008 Youngsters’s Miracle Community Basic in Florida.

Love’s winning number was 17-under 263.

Had he not carded a bogey on No. 18, on a putt that made a painful counter-clockwise 270 to keep from going down, Woods would have been paired with Gore.

He closed with three straight pars, walked off the 18th inexperienced with a two-stroke lead over Brown and Gore, and headed to the variety to relaxation for a potential playoff. He bogeyed the first hole, then went birdie, birdie, birdie, eagle, birdie.

Woods was removed from the one participant who wanted to play properly at Sedgefield to advance to subsequent week.

Ryan Moore (65) of Puyallup was tied for 16th at 10 under.

But Scott Langley, who arrived at No. 126 on the points list, dropped a spot after bogeys on four of his final six holes. He’ll go into The Barclays in 19th place in the FedEx Cup standings.

Andrade closed with a 1-over 73 to finish at 9-under 207 at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge. He entered in pursuit of the win that would have gained him entry into the Barclays this week, the first of the four playoff tournaments that close the PGA Tour season.

Love worked with golf instructor Jack Lumpkin on his putting before the PGA and credited sports psychologist Bob Rotella for getting him in the right mindset. “Rarely does it come to fruition like this: The absolute best-case scenario when Woods decided… to make his first appearance at the tournament”. His swing is much improved, he has more control and better balance. He lived to play another week.

The first reason was the fact that he had won the tournament twice and he has always enjoyed playing in Greensboro.

DeChambeau, from Clovis, Calif., beat Virginia junior Derek Bard of New Hartford, N.Y., 7 and 6 in the 36-hole final at Olympia Fields. Those two records are certain to fall in the near future as Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods approach those ages.