149th for Tiger.

I might just have hit the nail on the head with my comment last Monday about maybe tiger might be inspired to play better after Jason days win,good buddys and days win was certainly in a tiger style of old

YOU CAN DO IT TIGER. I WILL BE PUTTING A TENNER ON YOU EVERY MAJOR TILL YOU DO

#285 - I don't think they bother listing them beyond top 300 so that will be an end to the misery.

Lets hope for another today

surging up the rankings! with 6 weeks off it is hard to see how he stays in the top 300 short term.

Some good signs this week hopefully he will work hard over the next six weeks and then play regularly in the autumn.

More chance of David Duvall getting back to world number 1.

More surgery, and no more events for 2015, with a probable delay to competition to 2016

Still can't write him off, but maintaining the faith gets harder all the time.

Its very sad but we have been very blessed to have seen him at his best and all the golfers owe him a great deal for giving the game the profile and with it the prize money it has now.

But as for his playing competitively and winning especially majors, I'm sad to say as a fan those days are done but 14 is still pretty amazing.

http://espn.go.com/golf/story/_/id/14267487/tiger-woods-nowhere-return-golf

Doesn't sound good He also said he has nothing to look forward to

"I think pretty much everything beyond this will be gravy," he said. "I've passed Jack on the all-time win list (79 to 73), just shy of Sam (Snead, 82). I passed Sam basically a decade ago (and everyone else) in major championships but I'm still shy of Jack's. So I've had a pretty good career for my 20s and 30s. For my 20 years out here, I think I've achieved a lot, and if that's all it entails, then I've had a pretty good run.

"But I'm hoping that's not it. I'm hoping that I can get back out here and compete against these guys. I really do miss it. But if that's not the case anymore, then I'll find other avenues, that being growing my foundation, golf course design and other projects I have going on right now that will certainly take up more of my time."

Assuming Tiger is finished at the top level, it's amazing to think that he won his final major at age 32.  That's when a lot of players are just hitting their prime.  But golf is unpredictable like that; Tom Watson won his last major at 33, and Seve was only 31. 

So when people talk about McIlroy or Spieth winning 15-20 majors it's longevity that seems to be the biggest hurdle.  Injury, personal problems, or just losing your driving/putting can derail things pretty quickly.

Time to fire up those engines

choo choo

Tiger's 40 greatest numerical records. When it comes to the complete demolition of a respective sport’s record book, Tiger Woods has few rivals.

Babe Ruth ended his Major League Baseball career with 714 home runs. Before Ruth, baseball’s all-time home run leader was Roger Connor, with 138. In 1920, Ruth hit 54 home runs, which at the time, shattered his own single-season record by 25. Only one other TEAM besides the Yankees hit that many home runs that season. Yet, to say that Ruth has as staggering a resume as Woods is a disservice to Tiger. It may take decades, but someday, people will look at Tiger’s prime years as possibly the most dominant, relatively speaking, by any one athlete in the history of sports.
Narrowing down Tiger’s greatest statistical achievements to just 40 is as entertaining as it is arduous. The goal, as Woods turns 40 years old, was to illuminate a few of the numbers that go beyond the standards everyone knows – 14 (major wins), 79 (PGA Tour wins) and 15 (margin of victory at the 2000 U.S. Open).

Revel in the insanity that has been Tiger’s historic greatness for the better part of 20 years:

40. Woods won 32 times on the PGA Tour from 1999 through 2003. No other player won more than eight times in that span.
39. From the 1999 PGA Championship through the 2002 U.S. Open, Woods won seven of the 11 majors contested. Woods was a cumulative 94 under par in those tournaments – 60 shots better than any other player.

38. Woods won 10 majors before his 30th birthday. Since the first Masters was held in 1934, the only player to even win five majors before turning 30 was Jack Nicklaus, who won seven.
37. On that note: today, there is currently only one player with double-digit PGA Tour wins (not majors, just regular victories) under age 30: Rory McIlroy.

36. In majors from 1997 through 2008, Tiger recorded 34 different rounds of 67 or better. No other player had more than 16 such rounds in that span.
35. Woods won 46 times in his 20s, 16 more than any other player in PGA Tour history (Nicklaus, again, is second). During the time Woods was in his 20s, the player with the second-most victories before age 30 was David Duval, with 13.

34. Woods was a combined 82 under at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational from 1999 through 2009 – 49 shots better than anyone else in that span. Tiger has racked up $11 million in official earnings in that event alone – more than six times what Arnold Palmer earned in his entire PGA Tour career.
33. Woods has a career scoring average of 70.86 in the Masters. That is the best career scoring average in that event for any player with at least 50 rounds played. Woods’ 11 top-five finishes in the Masters is second all-time to Nicklaus.

32. During the 2000 PGA Tour season, Woods recorded one round higher than 73. It came in the first round of the Masters. He shot 75, on a day when the field averaged 75.59.
31. Tiger has won the Vardon Trophy (lowest scoring average on Tour) nine times, four more than any other player (Billy Casper, Lee Trevino). The trophy has been awarded since 1937.

30. Woods has earned more than $110 million in official earnings in his PGA Tour career. The year before he turned pro, the Tour’s all-time career earnings leader was Greg Norman – at $9.59 million.
29. Tiger was a combined 53 under in the majors in 2000. That was 35 shots better than anyone else that year. Though Jordan Spieth broke Woods’ season scoring mark in 2015 (he was a combined 54 under in the majors), he was just 19 shots better than his closest competitor, Jason Day (-35).

28. There are five instances in PGA Tour history where a player won a single PGA Tour event seven or more times. Woods owns four of them. Sam Snead, who won in Greensboro eight times, is the only other player to do it once.
27. Woods has spent 683 weeks as world No. 1 – 352 weeks (more than six years) more than any other player in OWGR history (Greg Norman is second).

26. A player has won a major championship with a score of 18 under or better eight times. Tiger owns five of those eight instances.
25. Woods is, of course, the only man in the modern era to win four consecutive majors – a feat known as the Tiger Slam. The last of Tiger’s four straight major wins came at age 25. The only other players in the modern era to even win four career majors (not consecutive) at age 25 or younger are Jack Nicklaus and Rory McIlroy.

24. Woods is the only player in history to win the U.S. Junior Amateur, U.S. Amateur and U.S. Open in his career. He won three of each.
23. Woods has won nine USGA Championships in his career, tied with Bobby Jones for most all-time. Woods won the 2000 U.S. Open by 15 shots. No other player in the last 100 years has won a U.S. Open by more than nine shots.

22. From 2002-05, Woods had 1,540 putts from 3 feet and in on the PGA Tour. He only missed three of them.
21. Woods completed the career Grand Slam at age 24. Not only is he the youngest player to win the slam, only five other players in the last 50 years have won a major at age 24 or younger.
20. There have only been two instances since 1900 where a player won a major championship by 10 strokes or more. Woods owns both of those instances (1997 Masters, 2000 U.S. Open).

19. Woods is the only player in the PGA Championship’s stroke-play era to win the tournament in consecutive years. He’s done it twice.
18. Tiger is 16-1 in his career in playoffs on the PGA and European tours. His only defeat came to Billy Mayfair at the 1998 Nissan Open.
17. Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year has been awarded since 1954. Woods is the only athlete to win the award more than once (1996, 2000).

16. Tiger has held the outright 54-hole lead 45 times in his PGA Tour career. He went on to win 43 of them, good for a 95.6 percent clip. For context - over the last three PGA Tour seasons, players with an outright 54-hole lead have gone on to win 39.7 percent of the time.
15. Tiger has held the outright 36-hole lead 33 times in his Tour career. He went on to win 28 of them (84.8 percent). In comparison, Jack Nicklaus’ 36-hole outright conversion rate was 63 percent.
14. Tiger’s 46 PGA Tour wins before he turned 30 would be eighth on the overall all-time wins list – one ahead of Walter Hagen.

13. Woods has missed 15 cuts on the PGA Tour as a professional. Spieth has missed 13. Spieth was three years old when Tiger turned pro.
12. Adjusted scoring averages have been calculated on the PGA Tour since 1988. There are six instances where a player’s season adjusted scoring average was better than 68.6. They all belong to Woods.
11. Woods has won 14 major championships. No other player currently age 40 or younger has more than 12 career regular PGA Tour wins (Zach Johnson, who turns 40 in February, has 12).

10. Speaking of Zach - Tiger’s 79 Tour wins are 67 more than any other player currently 40 or younger. There are seven other players age 40 or younger with at least eight career PGA Tour wins. Those players – Johnson, Adam Scott, McIlroy, Dustin Johnson, Sergio Garcia, Geoff Ogilvy and Bubba Watson – have 67 wins combined.
9. Woods is credited with 40 career wins on the European Tour, third-most all-time. Woods has never played a full season on the European Tour.
8. Tiger is the only player since World War II to win a PGA Tour event four straight years. He did it two different times.

7. Tiger is the only player in PGA Tour history to win eight or more times on a single course. He has done it on three different courses.
6. Tiger has won five straight PGA Tour starts three different times. Over the last 60 years, he is the only player to do it once.
5. From 1997 through 2008, Woods led or co-led following any round in a major 42 different times. Second on the list in that span was Phil Mickelson – with 13. Woods won 14 majors in that span.

4. Tiger has 18 career World Golf Championship victories. Second on the all-time list? Ogilvy. He has three.

3. Woods had 142 consecutive PGA Tour events without missing a cut, from 1998-2005. That is 29 more than the second-longest streak in the Tour’s history (Byron Nelson, 113 in a row). There are only four other such streaks even half as long as Woods’.

2. In a stretch from the middle of the 1999 season through the middle of the 2001 season, Woods won 20 of the 38 stroke-play events he played on the Tour (a .526 win percentage). In those events, Woods was a combined 472 under, a cumulative score 307 shots better than anyone else. Vijay Singh was second.

1. From 1997 through 2008, Woods was a combined 126 under par in majors. There are 138 other players who played at least 40 rounds in major championships in that span. Among that group, Woods was a staggering 189 shots better than anyone else. Second on the list: Joe Ogilvie, at 63 over.

might want some decent weather to contend at an open

and after this week the books wont be so generous


masters might be a good chance as history suggests its
a course that holds its form

the biggest proviso is that the short game holds up

there would be nothing better over the next 5 years
or so than a fit tiger contending with the new brigade

Finished 2nd to Tiger Woods in 14 Majors

Rocco Mediate
Woody Austin
Shaun Micheel
Chris DiMarco
Colin Montgomerie
Chris DiMarco
Phil Mickelson *
Retief Goosen *
David Duval *
Bob May
Thomas Bjorn
Miguel Angel Jiminez / Ernie Els *
Sergio Garcia
Tom Kite *

* Major winners

unfortunately the short game problems are still there. putting isn't the greatest under pressure and seems to make some strange decisions around the greens. that would be worrying for the masters if he's trying to put everything that's off the green instead of chipping it.

I think he can put everything together over a weekend to win one more major in the rest of his career but hard to believe he'll win four or more.

I think you're kind of forgetting just how bad he was before the break, to me the basics all look much better.  He's played well for a guy who's been out for that long, run out of steam a couple of days but that's to be expected I think.  Probably another couple of months til we see him again and so plenty of time to improve.  I doubt in this era he can get back to being the BEST, but after this long out, and the problems he had before, at this stage just holding his own against guys of this calibre is grounds for optimism.

We've seen how much Augusta rewards experience and that old guys can contend there.  I'd say he's got at least one more Masters in him if he can keep playing.  4 might be a stretch, but I honestly don't feel you can rule it out.  Guy's spent his whole life achieve things mere mortals shouldn't be able to.

I think you're kind of forgetting just how bad he was before the break,

I haven't forgotten at all actually. He completely stunk the place out in most tournaments he was in and was regularly tailed off.

Yes this is improvement but really it reminds me of the Tiger who was contending in the period for 2008-2014, he would be in contention but then poor putting or just rank bad play would take him out just as fast.

Which suggests to me that he has some kind of mental block once he gets in or around the lead. It's strange to think the most mentally tough player in the history of the game has a mental block, but that is how it is.

It also isn't convincing how he is approaching some of these shots in and around the green. Which again seems linked to this mental block. But yes encouraging signs overall so wouldn't write him off for next year

Total Bosman
We've seen how much Augusta rewards experience and that old guys can contend there.

Or it is a much smaller field packed with all previous winners, and with half a dozen amateurs.