Tiger Woods to play Wyndham Championship

Tiger Woods, who has missed three consecutive cuts in major championships, will play in the Wyndham Championship this week for the first time in his career.

Woods is headed to Greensboro, N.C., in an attempt to make the season-ending FedExCup playoffs. The tournament begins Thursday at Sedgefield Country Club in the final regular-season event of the PGA Tour season.

Woods weighed the decision after missing the cut at the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wis., to fall to No. 286 in the World Golf Rankings.

Woods informed tournament officials Monday that he would be there, according to his agent, Mark Steinberg.

"We discussed it in detail over the weekend. It was not appropriate to confirm during the PGA Championship," Steinberg told ESPN.com in an email. "Tiger has heard great things about the event and is looking forward to the week."

Wyndham tournament director Mark Brazil tweeted the news Monday morning: "Bam! Tiger is coming!"

Woods, who has finished just five of the 10 tournaments he played this year, is 187th in the FedEx Cup standings -- 292 points behind No. 125 Charl Schwartzel. Only the top 125 advance to the first FedEx Cup playoff event, the Barclays, the week of Aug. 24.

Woods would need to at least finish alone in second place to have any shot of making it into the playoff.

"I think it's more just building," Woods said Saturday after missing the cut at the PGA Championship. "People keep asking me this week, 'Is it your season?' No, it's not really about the season, it's about the year.

"I know that we have a different -- I haven't quite come to grips with the whole non-calendar season yet, this whole wraparound thing, so for me I still consider it a year. And I still have plenty of golf to be played for the rest of the year. And as I said, on a global level."