The PGA Tour season ended Sunday for Tiger Woods.
The world's No. 1 player will not advance to Atlanta in two weeks for the Tour Championship at East Lake to defend his FedExCup playoffs title. Woods, who also won the PGA Tour's inaugural postseason championship in 2007, needed to finish in the top five at the BMW Championship at Cog Hill to be one of 30 players at the final playoff event.
"I didn't play well in the beginning of the year and I didn't play well in the middle of the year," said Woods, who had only two top-10s this season — ties for fourth at the Masters and U.S. Open. "Of late I'm definitely getting along better, and very pleased and looking forward to the future. I got off to a slow start (Sunday). I'm proud of the fact that I was able to turn my round around and hit a lot of good golf shots after not hitting many starting out."
After a 3-under-par 68 in the third round, Woods was still way behind where he needed to be to finish high enough to advance to the Tour Championship. Sensing he needed to go very low — "A 62, 63," he said Saturday — Woods instead fired a closing 1-under-par 70.
The world's No. 1 player will not advance to Atlanta in two weeks for the Tour Championship at East Lake to defend his FedExCup playoffs title. Woods, who also won the PGA Tour's inaugural postseason championship in 2007, needed to finish in the top five at the BMW Championship at Cog Hill to be one of 30 players at the final playoff event.
"I didn't play well in the beginning of the year and I didn't play well in the middle of the year," said Woods, who had only two top-10s this season — ties for fourth at the Masters and U.S. Open. "Of late I'm definitely getting along better, and very pleased and looking forward to the future. I got off to a slow start (Sunday). I'm proud of the fact that I was able to turn my round around and hit a lot of good golf shots after not hitting many starting out."
After a 3-under-par 68 in the third round, Woods was still way behind where he needed to be to finish high enough to advance to the Tour Championship. Sensing he needed to go very low — "A 62, 63," he said Saturday — Woods instead fired a closing 1-under-par 70.
