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PGA Championship notebook: Woods braces for grueling stretch

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Tiger Woods will take a week off before the FedEx Cup playoffs, which will be followed by the U.S. Open.
Tiger Woods doesn’t know how the strange, compressed schedule will affect him for the rest of the year. Then again, no one else does, either. “No one has ever experienced this, having a shutdown during the year,” Woods said as he looked ahead to the FedEx Cup playoffs that will be followed two weeks later by the U. S. Open. “It is very different. This is unlike any other year that we’ve ever experienced in golf.” Woods shot a 3-under 67 on Sunday in the final round of the PGA Championship to finish the tournament at minus-1 – eight strokes behind leader Dustin Johnson as he waited to tee off. Woods will take next week off before the three-week stretch of the playoffs that begin outside of Boston on Aug.20 The U. S. Open, which was postponed from June, will be two weeks after the tour championship. Although the schedule is new for everyone, it will be a special challenge for Woods, who at 44 has a balky back and hasn’t played on back-to-back weekends since the President’s Cup in December.

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