Greensboro is coming out in droves to see Tiger Woods at the Wyndham
Greensboro, N.C., never had a place on the old Tiger Woods Tour, the slang term given to the events boosted by having a regular place on the 14-time major winner’s annual docket when he was playing at his best.
Now that Woods is playing the Wyndham Championship for the first time, at age 39, the whole town seems to be coming out to see him.
Wyndham Championship officials said Thursday that they sold an extra 6,000 tickets for Round 1 of the tournament at Sedgefield Country Club. Although it’s impossible to know for certain, it seems pretty clear there’s a strong correlation between selling more tickets and Woods’ first appearance in the PGA Tour regular-season finale.
Officials expect an extra 8,000-10,000 tickets to be sold for Friday and even more on the weekend, assuming Woods, who shot 6-under 64 on Thursday to sit two shots behind the lead, makes the weekend, according to Golf Channel.
Woods is in what amounts to a must-win situation to make the FedEx Cup playoffs. A Wyndham win would get Woods, who is 186th in FedEx Cup points, inside the top 125, which advances to the first leg of the playoffs next week at The Barclays in Plainfield, N.J. With a solo second-place finish, Woods could conceivably get in the playoffs but would need other players closer to the playoff cutoff to stumble as well.
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