Tiger Woods is definitely in for the Wyndham Championship
Really, truly, Tiger Woods is playing in the Wyndham Championship.
Woods’ agent Mark Steinberg made the final, final confirmation on Monday that the world No. 286 will play in Greensboro, N.C., for the first time in his career.
“We discussed it in detail over the weekend. It was not appropriate to confirm during the PGA Championship,” Steinberg wrote in an email to ESPN. “Tiger has heard great things about the event and is looking forward to the week.”
The 14-time major winner committed to the event on Friday after storms at the PGA Championship halted play for the day. Players are required to make their event entries official within 30 minutes of the call of play on the Friday of the week before a tournament.
However, Woods and Steinberg both seemed to hedge on that commitment almost immediately after it was made, both suggesting that there would need to be some more thought put into the decision. A premature withdrawal was put on the table. In the end, Woods, who had already sent the Wyndham tournament folks onto Cloud 9 with his Friday call, decided to play.
This start isn’t a throwaway for Woods, though it will likely be his last until the Frys.com Open in October, which marks the start of the 2015-16 PGA Tour season. For Woods, who is 187th in the standings, to crack the top 125 and qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs, which starts the next week at The Barclays on Long Island, he’ll need to finish no worse than solo second.
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