THE TOUR Championship spotlight: Tiger Woods

text size

Sep. 27, 2009
By PGATOUR.COM

Each week during the 2009 season, PGATOUR.COM will spotlight one key player in the field. (Click here to see previous spotlights.) For this week's THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola, it's 2007 FedExCup champion Tiger Woods.

Consider this file to be your one-stop source for everything concerning Tiger this week, with links to Tiger-related content, notes, stats, video and other multimedia elements.

Woods' round-by-round results

Rd.	Score	Position	Eagles	Birdies	Pars	Bogeys	Others	Scorecard
4	70 (Even)	2	0	2	14	2	0	Scorecard
3	69 (1 under)	2	0	3	13	2	0	Scorecard
2	68 (2 under)	1	0	4	12	2	0	Scorecard
1	67 (3 under)	T2	0	5	11	2	0	Scorecard

SUNDAY
Video: Woods finishes second but wins FedExCup
Transcript: Read Tiger's full interview

SATURDAY
Video: Woods shoots 69 but loses lead
Transcript: Read Tiger's full interview

FRIDAY
Video: Woods has Friday's Shot of the Day
Transcript: Read Tiger's full interview

THURSDAY
Video: Woods speaks after a first-round 67 leaves him one stroke back
Transcript: Read Tiger's full interview

WEDNESDAY
Video: See Tiger's pre-tournament press conference
Transcript: Read Tiger's full interview

What's on Tiger's mind?

The 2007 FedExCup champion weighs in on a few topics

ON STEVE STRICKER: "He's just a great guy, period. Strick, before he had his success, his game slipped away and then he came back. He hasn't changed. He's still the same Steve. From the time I came out here on TOUR until now, he hasn't changed one bit. He's just a great guy overall. People don't realize how competitive he is, but he is. It's another side of him we don't get to see very often, but we see how nice he is all the time."

ON BEING IN THE TOP FIVE: "The TOUR wants to have excitement on the last event. I mean, that's ultimately what has happened with this new format is that Top 5 guys, if they win the championship, they automatically win the FedExCup. No matter what kind of year you have, it really does pay to be in the Top 5 to give yourself a chance. That's not to say that the other 25 spots you can't win the golf tournament, but to win the FedExCup if you're in the Top 5 and you win the tournament, obviously you automatically get it. That certainly builds some excitement, certainly different than the last few years."

ON PLAYOFFS CHANGES: "It's more of what you do later in the season or basically the Playoffs. For instance, Heath wasn't having a very good year and wins one event, and then all of a sudden, boom, he's right there. No matter what you've done the entire year, it's basically erased. It's about what you do in the Playoffs, I think, in order to win the FedExCup, not necessarily what you've done the entire year."

ON THE TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP: "Now it's basically a sprint. It's one tournament, a sprint, assuming one of the Top 5 guys wins the tournament. But if it doesn't, then what you've done in the Playoffs previous to that will certainly help you to win the championship if none of the top guys win the tournament."

ON GOLF IN THE OLYMPICS: "I think it would be great. I think you would have to have it on a public venue. I don't think you could have it at a country club. I think you'd have to have it at a public venue just because of what the nature of the Olympics is all about."

ON HIS 2009 SEASON: "It's one of my best years. There's no doubt about that. You know, I haven't won as many times as I did in 2000, didn't win any majors this year, but certainly I was -- I've never had a year where I've been this consistent, either, this many high finishes and the number of events I've played. To have, as I said, an opportunity just about every time I tee it up to win the championship on the back nine, you know, that's something that, as I said, I can't tell you how proud I am for -- the job that my trainers and Hank [Haney] did to help me get to this point."

About the art

New York City artist Steven Anthony Salerno created the original artwork for this week's Player Spotlight on former FedExCup champion Tiger Woods. Here is how Salerno created the artwork:
"I created this image of Tiger Woods with a simple, bold, brush drawing (using black ink on watercolor paper) accentuating his powerful swing. I then scanned the drawing into the computer, adding in digital color and a background photo of a stormy sky. I made it even more ominous looking by deepening the values, to give it an overall feeling of a dream-like vision. My final intention was for the image to be how Tiger appears in the nightmares of other professional golfers as Tiger dominates the scene year after year."
To see a larger image of the artwork, as well as previous work by the artist, click here