Tiger Woods won’t be playing this weekend at the Wells Fargo Championship In North Carolina. Woods missed the cut, just his 8th time in his career, with a one-over-par 73 at the Quail Hollow Club.
Reuters reports that Woods failed to birdie all four par fives and finished two strokes above the cut line.
Woods said:
“The entire week I didn’t play the par-fives well… You just can’t do that, especially when all of them are reachable with irons. I didn’t take care of the par-fives, missed a couple of other little short ones for birdie and consequently got no momentum during the round.”
ESPN reports that Woods has missed the cut 8 times since he turned pro in 1996. This is the first time that Woods has failed to make the cut twice at the same venue. He also missed the mark at Quail Hollow in 2010.
Woods said:
“It’s frustrating. I’m not playing a weekend where I have a chance to compete for a title. I’ve missed my share of cuts in the past, and none of them feel good…. I know what I need to do, it’s just I need more (repetitions) doing it… It takes time to get rid of old patterns. It takes hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of golf balls but eventually it comes around. I’ve had my share of successes, and I know it’s coming.”
ESPN reports that Tiger Woods went 7 years without missing a cut. From the 1998 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-am to the 2005 Byron Nelson Championship, Woods played 142 straight tournaments without missing the cut.
