Tiger Woods will weigh Greensboro start while watching PGA finish from his sports bar

Tiger Woods’ season, after he missed his third straight major championship cut on Saturday, may be over after all.

Not 24 hours after the PGA Tour stunned the golf world by announcing that Woods had committed to play next week’s final event of the regular season, the Wyndham Championship, Tiger said he had not actually decided whether he would tee it up in Greensboro.

“I’m just going to sit back and I’ll go through it with my team,” Woods told reporters after finishing two shots shy of the cut line at the PGA Championship. “We’ll talk about it, what I need to do, and see if that’s the right move or not. We’ll decide next couple days.”

Woods had not finished his weather-delayed second round by the time the deadline to enter the tournament — 30 minutes after Friday play had ended — rolled around. With his round suspended until Saturday, Woods had to let Wyndham tourney organizers know he planned to attend before he knew whether he would make the PGA cut.

At 186th to start the week and well outside the top 125 who qualify for the postseason, Woods would likely need to prevail next week to make it to the FedEx Cup playoffs. With such an outcome rather unlikely considering the way the former world No. 1 has played this year, Tiger’s agent Mark Steinberg told GolfChannel.com on Saturday that his client was not “100 percent” on board with jetting to North Carolina.

The struggling 14-time major champion has until the first round starts on Thursday at Sedgefield Country Club to withdraw, and as of Sunday morning, the tournament was not listed on the schedule posted on his website. He also said, after posting a second-round 1-over 73 to go with his opening 75 at Whistling Straits and carding his fourth MC in 10 starts this year, that he “finally figured something out” about his putting, which was dreadful in 36 holes this week.

“I hit it good enough to be where I needed to be, but I putted awful,” he said. “I finally figured something out today on the putting green, but the damage had already been done.”

That’s for certain, after Woods was errant with his driver and metal woods, finding just 14 of 28 his fairways off the tee, and unable to capitalize with his putter after hitting a decent 23 of 36 greens in regulation.

Despite such less-than-stellar results, Woods (as is his habit) played up what he considered the positive aspects of his game.

“The confidence is growing quickly,” he said. “That’s the fun part. I’m hitting shots and able to hit shots that I haven’t been able to hit in years and that’s nice again. And to have the control that I need to have going forward, it’s starting to come back, which is nice.”

Should Woods choose not to play next week, it will mark the third time in the last five years that he will miss the playoffs and the second straight year he will have failed to qualify for the first of four postseason events. Again, he chose to look at the pluses rather than the minuses, the biggest bonus being that, though his official season may be over, his year was not.

His plans include appearances at the season-opening Frys.com Open, which starts on Oct. 15, and the Bridgestone America’s Golf Cup in Mexico, from Oct. 21-25. Then there’s the tournament he hosts and for which he received an exemption, the no-cut Hero World Challenge in December.

“I just need to get more consistent in tournament golf. Only way you can do that is by playing,” he said. “I have a lot of golf to be played around the world.”

More immediately, Woods planned to stay stateside to catch some of the PGA action on a big screen at his newly opened restaurant.

“I’m going to go home and watch the leaders tee off and play,” he said. “Probably in Florida. Actually, I’ll go to my sports bar. How about that?”

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