Jack Nicklaus has played there, so has Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Sam Snead and Seve Ballesteros.
Just about all the household names in golf have played in Greensboro, especially back in the glory days of the Greater Greensboro Open, simply the GGO as it was known by the good folk in North Carolina.
Tiger Woods has never played there. Until this week.
Woods committed to the event last week but dropped the disclaimer that he’d have to think about it after missing the cut at the PGA Championship.
The choice was simple. If Woods didn’t want to be viewed as a “quitter,” he’d best show up at Sedgefield Country Club and make one last desperate attempt to qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs.
He will need to win.
He’s so far down the list that only a win will do it. Maybe, just maybe he’d have a chance, considering that it’s an old style course with shorter holes and tight fairways. He won’t have to hit driver, the club that has basically vanished these days. It’s a club he can’t consistently control, one that puts him in bad places.
On the other hand, he can go 3-woods and irons off the tees and if his putter helps him at all, he should at least be able to make the 36-hole cut at the Wyndham Championship.
Fans in the land of NASCAR and grits are excited for an in-person look at the man who is still an attraction, mostly because of the curiosity factor. Does he really play that badly?
There have been more questions than answers for Woods this season and this week may well be the last chapter in a forgettable year.
At worst, the sponsors of the event are pulled for him to make the 36-hole cut.
One Comment
Victor Cruse
I am seriously blow away by the audacity and nature of your comments on Mr. Woods, as usual a person of your intelligence and perspective now can use your medium to trash the greatest golfer to walk a fairway! A mere touch of knowledge about golf history would require the respect you lack in spades( no pun intended)! Jack and Arnie never speak an ill word about Tiger! Maybe you think the billions of dollars all these new great young men will win are directly related to there play, or the manufactured golf equipment that leveled the playing field to bring many prior pretenders onto his skill set does not deserve acknowledgement, but in the end with the exception of the newly crowned PGA champs, most of the tour players developed in the country clubs of America!!! I know the opposition and dominance Mr. Woods had to face to reach his ultimate goals, maybe history will report him as it does Hogan, a surly master of excellence only changed by a near death experience, keep up the good work, you show your cognitive dissonance with each typed word!