{"id":2968,"date":"2018-09-11T08:11:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T08:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebureaugh.com\/addons\/thegolferonline.com\/golfer\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2018-09-11T08:11:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T08:11:27","slug":"tiger-woods-gets-close-falls-short-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/blog\/2018\/09\/11\/tiger-woods-gets-close-falls-short-once-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods gets close, falls short once again"},"content":{"rendered":"

What will it take for you to consider Tiger Woods<\/a> \u201cback\u201d? Will he need to win a tournament, or is it enough that he\u2019s in the mix on final day after final day? If your standard is the former, well, Woods isn\u2019t quite here, but if you\u2019re happy seeing Woods fight for a lead once again, well, these are good days for you.<\/p>\n

Woods didn\u2019t win the BMW Championship, which finished Monday due to a rainy weekend, but on two separate occasions he drew within a stroke of the lead. He ended up finishing three strokes behind Keegan Bradley<\/a>, who defeated Justin Rose in a one-hole, sudden-death playoff, but there\u2019s still success for Woods to build on \u2026 and problems to clean up.<\/p>\n

His troubles dated to Friday, when he followed up an eight-under opening day with an even-par round \u2026 which, on a course as soft as Aronimink was playing, was the equivalent of moving backwards. Woods finished Saturday with another four-under round, then waited out the rain on Sunday and teed off Monday at -12. A four-under front nine put Woods right on the heels of leaders <\/span>Justin Rose<\/a> and <\/span>Billy Horschel<\/a>, but he stumbled with bogeys on 10 and 14 and couldn\u2019t keep pace.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two back of the leaders at -17, Woods couldn\u2019t sink an eight-foot birdie putt on 17 that would have drawn him back within a stroke of the lead. He finished the tournament at -17, not good enough to win, but more than good enough to keep himself in the FedEx Cup conversation.<\/p>\n

Also worth noting: Woods wore his Sunday red \u2014 yes, it was Monday, roll with us here \u2014 and to some, the sweater looked a touch familiar:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve played a few tournaments where I came close at the end, but just didn\u2019t quite get the W,\u201d Woods said afterward. \u201cBut to get to the end of the season and make it to the Tour Championship, considering what I\u2019ve been through, is a pretty good accomplishment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woods easily worked his way into the final 30 headed to East Lake for the Tour Championship, an impressive feat given that he only started playing serious tournaments in late January of this year. (Jordan Spieth<\/a>, among many other notable names, didn\u2019t make the cut.) Woods has missed the cut in only two of the 18 tournaments he\u2019s played to date.<\/p>\n

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Source: Jay Busbee, Yahoo Sports<\/p>\n

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What will it take for you to consider Tiger Woods \u201cback\u201d? Will he need to win a tournament, or is it enough that he\u2019s in the mix on final day after final day? If your standard is the former, well, Woods isn\u2019t quite here, but if you\u2019re happy seeing Woods fight for a lead once […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-competitions","8":"category-european-golf","9":"category-featured"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}