PGA Championship: Wounded Tiger needs to take a real break

It has become fair game to wonder what sort of motivation, if any, Tiger Woods is finding these days for golf. It is also quite sensible to suggest that Friday will be the final round of his 2014-15 PGA Tour season.

So utterly brilliant for most of his career and so incredibly overwhelming in major championships, Woods remains in such turmoil — both physically and mentally — that it was stunning how little media attention he drew Thursday morning in the first round of the 97th PGA Championship.

His opening 18-hole jaunt at Whistling Straits didn’t attract more than a few reporters. That you didn’t need even need a few fingers to count the productive shots Woods hits speaks volumes for the sadness that has enveloped this story.