This year marks the sixth time Tiger Woods has played the Deutsche Bank Championship and first since 2007. He has one win (2006) two runner-up showings (’04, 07) and a tie for seventh (’03). Woods’ lowest 18-hole score at TPC Boston is the final round 63 he shot in 2006 and based on his performance so far this year, he is having another career year, if that is possible.

Tiger Woods enters the second week of the PGA TOUR playoffs for the Fed Ex Cup as No. 1 in the points standings with five victories. Wood’s, the 2007 Fed Ex Cup champion, missed the 2008 playoffs after undergoing knee surgery following his victory at the U.S. Open. His pro-am partners included Deutsche Bank CEO Seth Waugh, CVS CEO Tom Ryan, and two Deutsche bank clients, David Novak and Michael Fascitelli.

“This last stretch I’ve hit the ball pretty good and putted well in stretches. With one win, second, second, that’s not too bad. Some people have alluded to other things but that’s not too bad for my last four events. The overall year has been very consistent. Especially at this time last year, I was just coming off crutches, so it’s still pretty cool.”

TOURNAMENT INFORMATION

For information on the tournament please go to the web site: www.dbchampionship.com

Daily grounds tickets are available and access to TPC is easy. Spectator, handicap and special needs parking will be at the Comcast Center located in Mansfield, approximately one mile from TPC. The gates open at 7 a.m. and shuttle buses will deliver you to an area near the ninth green and tenth tee. Tee times start on Nos.1 and 10 at 7:40 a.m. and the last group will tee off at 1:46. The cut on Saturday will be to the low 70 and ties. If you can make it to TPC, you can watch all the action live on the Golf Channel Friday and Saturday and NBC Sunday and Monday. 

About Tom Gorman

Tom is a Boston based freelance golf writer.

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1. TEE TALK

NORTON, MA (September 3,2009) – Today is pro-am day at the par-71, 7,207-yard, pristine-conditioned Tournament Players Club, host of the seventh Deutsch Bank Championship, which begins Friday at 7:40 a.m. with the top 99 players in the world battling for the $1,350,000 first place check, from the total purse of $7,500,00. TPC Boston is a private club located in Norton and is part of the TPC Network owned and operated by the PGA TOUR.

For the most part, the players seem cordial to their respective amateur partners, many of whom ponied up $6,000 to play with best of the best. Vijay Singh, last year’s champion and Fed Ex Cup victor, said in the interview room most amateurs he plays with knows to pick up after six swings. He also said 22-under, last year’s winning score, would win again this year and he hopes to repeat. In five appearances at TPC, Singh has won twice (’04,’08) and has an impressive collective 65-under scoring streak.

“I think if somebody shoots 22-under this week they going to win. Hopefully it’s me. The golf course is a lot softer this year than it was last year. But they’ve made a lot of humps and hollows around the fairways, so it plays a lot longer that it did last year, and the greens are beautiful. Here will be low scoring out there. It’s not going to be easy, but there will be low scoring, depending on the weather. We haven’t had any wind the last two days, and if it’s going to be like this, then we’re in for a shootout”

After shooting 6-under, 65, Steve Stricker, who finished second last week at The Barclay’s is focused on one thing: the $10 million dollar jackpot that awaits the winner of the Fed Ex Cup after two more events. The TOUR Championship will be played at East Lake GC in Atlanta September 24-27, with an elite field narrowed down to only the top-40.

‘I enjoy coming to Boston and playing the TPC here and it’s also and exciting time of year for us. It’s a lot of golf, a lot of stuff riding on the line for each tournament, a lot of money involved, and it’s an exciting time to play. This is the third year of the Playoffs, and there’s a lot on the line, a lot of money involved, and you can really make a good year in a short period of time.”

Stricker enters the Deutsche Bank Championship ranked No. 2 in the Fed Ex Cup points standings on the strength of victories earlier this year at the Crown Plaza Invitational in May and the John Deere Classic in July. Stricker leads the Tour in scoring average before the cut with 69.16 stroke average. He also leads the Tour in scrambling percentage at 67.77.

About Tom Gorman

Tom is a Boston based freelance golf writer.

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