Couples says Woods needs to play like a team

Couples says Woods needs to play like a team

 Woods missed the cut at the PGA Championship _ only his second tournament in four months _ and failed to qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs. That makes him ineligible for any PGA Tour event until the first week of October. Couples is to make his two captain’s picks on Sept. 26, the day after the Tour Championship. 

U.S. captain Fred Couples wants Tiger Woods on the Presidents Cup team, Discount golf clubs provided Woods plays tournaments before he shows up at the Australian Open a week before the matches.”He can’t just show up the week before in Australia,” Couples said Wednesday at the Senior Players Championship. “I have made it clear that whoever I picked will be playing the Australian tournament the week before. But I need him to play more than just there. There’s quite a few tournaments after the Tour Championship.”

Couples and Woods are longtime friends, and when Couples agreed to return as captain, he jokingly sent Woods a text message telling him to play well so the captain wouldn’t have to waste a pick on him.

Turns out it was no joke. Because of injuries to his left leg, Woods went from the Masters on April 10 to the Bridgestone Invitational on Aug. 7 without completing a tournament.TaylorMade 2.0 Irons Then came the final major, where he missed the cut by six shots and finished out of the top 100 for the first time in a major. 

Couples said he has talked to Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg, about playing more events and “we’re going to figure out a way that we can get this done.”Woods said upon leaving the PGA Championship that he has plenty of burner 2.0 irons time to work on his game, but he did not rule out playing more.Couples pointed to Luke Donald and Dustin Johnson, who play about two dozen times a year, and are getting better.