adminNEW YORK. — Tiger Woods insists 2013 will go down as a great season even if he does not add to his 14 major titles at this week’s US PGA Championship at Oak Hill.
The world number one won his fifth tournament of the year in Ohio last week, but is still chasing a first major victory since the US Open in 2008. The 37-year-old acknowledges his 15th major title is proving the toughest.
“It kind of seems that way,” he said. “It’s the longest spell I’ve had since I won a major.”
Woods has now won 79 career US PGA titles, three shy of Sam Snead’s all-time record, but his goal of passing Jack Nicklaus’s record of 18 majors has stalled following a string of injuries, personal scandal and swing changes.
“I’ve certainly had my share of chances to win,” he said. “I’ve had my opportunities on the back nine of probably half of those Sundays for the last five years and just haven’t won it. “But the key is to keep giving myself chances and eventually I will start getting them.” Woods, who has nine top-six finishes in the 17 majors he has played since last winning one, once judged a season on whether or not he had won a major, but he now seems to have relaxed his criteria.
“I think winning one major championship automatically means you had a great year,” he said. “Even if you miss the cut in every tournament you play in; you win one, you’re part of history.
“This year, for me, I think it’s been a great year so far for me, winning five times, and you look at the quality of tournaments I’ve won, a Players and two World Golf Championships in there, that’s pretty good.”
Woods went into the final round of the Open two shots behind leader Lee Westwood at Muirfield, but struggled with the pace of the greens and settled for a share of sixth. — BBC Sport.
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