Why Tiger Woods Is Facing a Must-Win Situation at 2015 Wyndham Championship

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Published: August 22, 2015

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Unless you're a dyed-in-the-wool contrarian, Saturday afternoon was pure nostalgic bliss.

A soon-to-be 40-year-old Tiger Woods was prowling the tee boxes, attacking the flag sticks and inspiring the sort of gleeful gallery reactions that only a 14-time major champ can prompt.

And thanks to the third-round 68 he fired at the Wyndham Championship after reaching the weekend with a 64 and 65, he'll enter Sunday in contention for what feels like the first time in a decade.

Woods is two shots behind leader and childhood pal Jason Gore, and he'll be playing with Scott Brown—who's won one PGA event in nine pro seasons—in the penultimate pairing for the final round.

It all adds up to a late-summer Christmas for CBS' ratings guys, and given where Tiger's fortunes have largely been since his most recent major win seven years ago, it was hard not to see the positives.



The three solid 18s have put him within striking distance of the FedExCup Playoffs, a four-tiered progressive cut gauntlet that'll crown the PGA Tour's season-long champion next month in Atlanta.

A solo second or better on Sunday would guarantee Woods one of 125 playoff berths, and an all-out win would mean both a cool $972,000 in the bank and an overdue confidence jolt after a 2015 schedule that's yielded four missed cuts, a withdrawal and nothing better than a tie for 17th in 10 events.

And who knows?

It could even set the table for the offseason, pipe down some doubters and even be the starting point for a career resurgence that everyone else will claim to have seen coming a year from now.

"Coming in a lot of people thought there was no hope. But if Tiger can figure out his driver and get comfortable with it, look out boys, game on," on-course reporter Peter Kostis gushed during Saturday's CBS broadcast. "Under pressure and in these situations is where he's wanted to be. He wants ...
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