{"id":40511,"date":"2020-08-05T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tiger-woods-will-need-a-miracle-at-pga-championship\/"},"modified":"2020-08-05T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T21:02:00","slug":"tiger-woods-will-need-a-miracle-at-pga-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tiger-woods-will-need-a-miracle-at-pga-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tiger Woods will need a miracle at PGA Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Tiger Woods will need a miracle at PGA Championship<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The last question posed to Tiger Woods in his pre-tournament press conference Tuesday at Harding Park in advance of this week\u2019s PGA Championship came from a reporter who asked him, \u201cCan you win this week?\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course,\u2019\u2019 Woods said with a broad smile.<\/p>\n

And just like that, Woods\u2019 question-and-answer session was over before anyone could ask this follow-up question: \u201cWhat makes you think that?\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Because there are a lot of factors conspiring to make this a potentially-difficult week for Woods to succeed \u2014 whether success is measured by winning the tournament, contending or merely making the cut.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with the fact that by the time he tees off his opening round alongside Rory McIlroy and Justin Thomas on Thursday, Woods will have played four tournament rounds of golf in the past 170 days. He\u2019s played in only three tournaments in 2020.<\/p>\n

Add into that equation the weather this week in San Francisco is expected to be cool (60s) and damp (fog, mist marine layer), particularly in the mornings. And Woods\u2019 44-year-old surgically-repaired body prefers the searing heat and suffocating humidity he plays in at home in South Florida.<\/p>\n

Add to that the fact that there are a dozen younger, better-fit star players who are entering this week in top form, beginning with newly-minted No. 1-ranked Thomas, Brooks Koepka, who app<\/a>ears to have found his form just in time to go for a three-peat at the PGA this week, McIlroy, who many believe to be the best all-around player in the world, Jon Rahm, who just won Memorial and was No. 1 before Thomas wrested it away with his win Sunday in Memphis.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s only the short list of players who figure to excel ahead of Woods. Those factors figure to be significant hurdles for Woods to overcome to capture his 16th career major championship this week.<\/p>\n

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Tiger Woods playing a practice round today for the PGA Championship<\/span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sure, Woods has a successful history at Harding Park, where he won the WGC-American Express in 2005, beating John Daly in a playoff, and going undefeated in the 2009 Presidents Cup.<\/p>\n

But that Woods and this Woods are different beings. That Woods was the best player in the world back then. This Woods has a balky back and plays tournament golf about as often as the Augusta National members allow unaccompanied guests to play.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, this was Woods\u2019 assessment of himself on Tuesday: \u201cI feel good,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, I haven\u2019t played much competitively, but I\u2019ve been playing a lot at home, so I\u2019ve been getting plenty of reps that way,\u2019\u2019 he went on. \u201c(I\u2019m) just trying to get my way back into this part of the season. This is what I\u2019ve been gearing up for. We\u2019ve got a lot of big events starting from here, so looking forward to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is going to be a fun test for all of us. The rough is up. Fairways are much more narrow than they were here in 2009.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

What about the physical challenges with the projected cool weather?<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me when it\u2019s cooler like this, it\u2019s just making sure that my core stays warm, layering up properly,\u2019\u2019 Woods said. \u201cI know I won\u2019t have the same range of motion as I would back home in Florida where it\u2019s 95 every day. That\u2019s just the way it is.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ball doesn\u2019t fly very far here. I\u2019ve known that from all the years and times I\u2019ve had to qualify up in this area (while playing college golf at nearby Stanford). It\u2019s always 20 degrees cooler here than it is down there in Palo Alto. I think the weather forecast is supposed to be like this all week: Marine layer, cool, windy, and we are all going to have to deal with it.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Woods said he felt \u201cvery enthusiastic about some changes I\u2019ve made\u2019\u2019 while practicing at home while, of course, declining to divulge them.<\/p>\n

Asked what he got out of his four rounds at the Memorial a few weeks ago, his only tournament golf since he finished last at the Genesis Open at Riviera in February, Woods said, \u201cMore than anything, I had not had the competitive flow. I\u2019ve been competing at home \u2026 but that\u2019s so different than it is out here playing competitively in a tournament environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing patient is one of the things that I was real proud of out there, fighting hard as I did to make the cut. I birdied two of the last three holes and made a huge par putt on nine (his final hole in Friday\u2019s second round). Those are all positive things I look back on.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

But will they be enough to carry him into the winner\u2019s circle this week?\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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