Tiger Woods on salvage mission this week

American looking to qualify for FedEx Cup playoffs at Whistling Straits

KOHLER: Tiger Woods insists there is reason for optimism as he looks to the final major of 2015 — the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.

On the face of it, the 14-time major champion is on a salvage mission, having missed back-to-back cuts at major tournaments for the first time in his career with early exits at the US Open and British Open.

Whether Woods can halt that streak seems a more viable question than whether he can end a major title drought that now stretches back to his 2008 US Open triumph.

However, Woods said his performance next week will dictate the rest of his year.

If he has a strong enough showing, he could add the Wyndham Championship to his schedule in a bid to qualify for the US PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs.

“Hopefully I can get into the top 100 [in the FedEx Cup standings] and play the event,” he said this week. 

Published in The Express Tribune, August 10^th,  2015.

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