Tiger Woods will play back-to-back occasions for the first time this year, hoping to be part of next week’s 30-player tour championship, which would mean 3 consecutive excursions for the first time since 2018.
It’s a simple task, as the lack of play and poor effects in 2020 left Woods wanting a big week in the BMW Championship to qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs.
“I have to play well, I have to earn my way to East Lake; I haven’t done so yet,” Woods said Wednesday at Olympia Fields (Illinois) Golf Club, site of the BMW Championship. “I need a good week. If I don’t, I go home. It’s a big week for me. I’m looking forward to getting out there and competing.
“This golf course looks more like a U.S. Open than a regular tournament. It’s the playoffs and it’s meant to be difficult.”
Olympia Fields was the site of the 2003 US Open won through Jim Furyk. Woods is one of four players who this week has participated in this tournament. Woods finished 20th and said he didn’t do much on the field 17 years ago. He played a nine-hole practice circular on Tuesday and was scheduled to see the rest of the course on Wednesday.
You’ll want to temporarily dominate it so that the desired result will be played the week in this 2019-20 season.
Woods, 44, ranks 57th in FedEx Cup issues after betting only six times this season, adding a Victory in the Zozo Championship in October. He’ll have to be in the 30 most sensitive after this week to qualify for the Tour Championship in Atlanta.
To do so, Woods will want a minimum of one sixth position, however, as there is no cut this week and everyone who finishes will get points, Woods looks more like a fourth position or more to move on.
This will require an intensification of the game compared to what we have noticed in the Memorial Tournament, the PGA Championship and the Northern Trust. In all 3 events, Woods essentially out of action at the midpoint.
And all facets of his game have suffered, even though last week at TPC Boston, he was fine at the tee and stepped forward over the weekend. He hit 16 vegetables in regulation on Sunday and fired 66, his most productive score of the year.
“I have to put the ball in play here and put it in the right places,” he said. “It’s more like an Open (American). With the weather as hot as it should be, this rough will become more difficult. This is not a golf course where I feel like you can do it with a driving force everywhere. Configuration. ”
The last time Woods played for weeks in a row in December at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas, he followed the Presidents Cup in Australia. At that last event, where Woods, the captain of the United States, skipped Saturday’s game due to the stiffness of his back.
The last time he toured consecutively in early 2019 at the Genesis Invitation at the Genesis Invitation (tied for 15th place) and the WGC-Mexico Championship (T10). But after that last event, Woods had a stiff neck and skipped his next outing.
He has not played three consecutive weeks since the 2018 FedEx Cup playoffs, when the format included 4 events, adding up to 3 in a row. He finished sixth in the last of the three consecutive games before the tour with a week off. He then won the Tour Championship for his 80th victory in the PGA Tour.
Woods would like to come back because “I have memories there.” He also admitted that he had struggled to put his game on the field in his 3 starts since the game resumed due to the pandemic.
“One of the reasons I was behind and didn’t play again before is that we just didn’t know what protocols were going to be like and whether our game would be to pass out here or we’d all pass to do it. He said. I only played enough tournaments to be able to perceive and feel what’s going on. I hope I can do it this week.
Woods starts at 1:14 p.m. And Thursday with Carlos Ortiz and Bubba Watson. They start playing at 2:09 p.m. Friday.
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