With speculation swirling about whether or not Tiger Woods will compete this week in the PGA Championship, he put it to an end Wednesday afternoon. He arrived at Valhalla, hit a few on the range and is now out on the course playing a practice round.
BREAKING NEWS: From the @pgaofamerica: “Four-time PGA Champion Tiger Woods has arrived at Valhalla Golf Club for the 96th PGA Championship.”
— PGA.COM (@PGA_com) August 6, 2014
Tiger Woods officially spotted at #PGAChamp . Expected to play practice round with Steve Stricker around 2 pm: pic.twitter.com/hdc7NcFNfK
— PGA.COM (@PGA_com) August 6, 2014
On Tuesday, Woods was granted his request for an extension to register for the tournament. His agent, Mark Steinberg, reached out to Kerry Haigh, Chief Championships Officer for the PGA of America, late Tuesday afternoon and requested an extension to register. He was one of six players in the field who had yet to do so.
According to the PGA Championship, the deadline to do so was 5 p.m. Tuesday.
The PGA of America was notified that Tiger Woods would not be arriving on site before the 5:00 p.m. (ET) deadline on Tuesday.
— PGA of America (@pgaofamerica) August 5, 2014
He will need to register before playing a practice round.
And so Tiger will continue his pursuit of Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 majors. He owns 14, but hasn’t won one since 2008. One of them came in the 2000 PGA Championship at Valhalla, a course Tiger has not played since.
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