Tiger Woods

Tiger Wood’s agent has announced that he won’t be contesting in the upcoming Wells Fargo Championship.

The championship, set to take place at Quail Hollow Club, will feature many top golfers but without the inclusion of the world number 1 – Tiger Woods as he seeks an extended break after the Masters.

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Tiger Woods has shown some early season form which for all the other golfer in the world is a scary site to see. He has won 3 titles in the last 5 events and by the end of March. You couldn’t argue that Tiger could well be back to his best hitting the world number 1 spot for the first time since October 2010.

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But I think the question on everyone’s lips is: Can Tiger win a major championship? He has been very close over the last 5 years, but he has yet to break the 5 year drought to add to the 14 majors he has already won in his illustrious career. Tiger is still looking to continue to chase down Jack Nicklaus’s 18 major titles.

Tiger will not play now until the Masters where he will continue his battle with Rory Mcilroy for the world number one spot. Surely Rory won’t be happy that he has been knocked off top spot after his longest spell as the world number one.

Tiger Woods has already this season earned $3,787,600 from career earning and has taken his PGA Tour wins to 77, lying second in all time PGA tour wins, 5 behind Sam Snead on 82. If Tiger continues in this rich vein of form he could easily overturn that deficit by the end of the year with 3 wins in 5 appearances, a 60% conversion rate.

Tiger spoke of his return to the world number one spot “It’s a by-product of perseverance and patience. I’ve won some tournaments in the last couple of years, as a consequence I’ve moved up. I’m pleased with the way I’m playing.”. I think the most worrying thing for his rivals is the way in which he played his current form down.

Tiger didn’t reveal much when asked about his chances for the Masters “It’s the next event I play.” But he did reveal “It’s been a few years since I felt this good. It has been years since I have hit the ball this consistently week in, week out. I’ve been hitting it pure and made my share of putts. Stricks [Steve Stricker] helped me out at Doral and I have managed to carry that on.”

Woods only hit 60% of fairways in his final round at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, but his recovery play ensured he went on to win the championship. Woods was 1st in gaining shots on the greens which is something that we were use to seeing a couple of years back when he made pressure puts on a regular basis.

The worlds top 2 golfers struggled in Abu Dhabi as both Rory Mcilroy and Tiger Woods missed the cut. Woods missed the cut by just the one shot, but Rory missed the cut by 6 shots.

Woods who only missed the cut by one shot thought he had a free drop on the fifth hole only to later find out that it shouldn’t have been a free drop and therefore his bogey 5 was changed to a triple bogey 7. Initially Tiger had called playing partner Martin Kaymer over to examine the lie within the weeds.
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Although Rory McIlroy might be shooting to the top of the golf world, Tiger Woods is still drawing in attention from fans and the media alike. Whilst McIlroy has taken second place in the BMW Masters in Shanghai this week, the CIMB Classic in Malaysia was given a touch of the ‘Woods Factor’.

As one of only eight from the top 50 ranked golf players, Woods’ appearance at the $6.1 million tournament shone some attention on the action. Jason Dufner, one of the 48 players competing in the CIMB this year, said that the 14 times major title champion brought a boost to the event, which is set to become part of the 2013 PGA Tour’s Fedex Cup schedule.
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By finishing the tournament on four-under par on Tier Eight, it is without a doubt that Tiger Woods his building his momentum towards the back end of the 2012 PGA Tour.

Though Woods was favourite to win the event, having being given odds of 7/1 after the British Open, no one could deny that one of the world’s greatest golfers was indeed on form at this years WGC-Bridgestone Invitational.

Finishing so put the current world number 3 into an eight place tie with eight other players.
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With $1.5 million going to the winner of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational this year from the $8.5 million kitty, Tiger Woods shall be looking at the event with a certain amount of glee, given is recent form at the British Open of 2012.

Him along with 76 other players, representing a total of 18 countries shall be competing at the prestigious Firestone Country Club in Ohio on Thursday.

As the event is one without a cut, even the last place finisher shall receive a generous check from the event.
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One day after The Open Championship of 2012, where in Ernie Else defeated all opponents, the Las Vegas Hotel and Casino put the odds on Woods with a 7-1 favourite to win the final major of the year at Kaiwah Island, S.C.

To most however, this comes as no surprise despite Woods’ testing final day performance at The Open Championship where the pro got into difficulty on the 6th.

One surprise in ways of odds however is those given to Ernie Else who was listed with 40/1, the same odds given to him for The Open.

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On the last day of The Open Championship, current world number two, Tiger Woods, finished the competition in a very comfortable joint third place.

Although the finish helped Woods climb up the rankings, he has stated that he his more interested in winning majors than climbing the rankings.

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Woods started the day with a more than satisfactory performance  with a total of 67 shots – three under par and three behind Australian leader, Adam Scott.

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December 30, 1975: Born

Eldrick T. Woods (Tiger) was born and raised in Cypress, California to his Thai mother Kultida and father Earl Woods who was a retired Lieutenant Colonel in The U.S Army.
His ancestry is that off a quarter Chinese, a quarter African, and a quarter Thai whilst also being an eighth American and an eighth Dutch.

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