Tiger on putting woes: 'Just the way it goes'

PARAMUS, N.J. -- Perhaps the best way to sum up Tiger Woods' performance at The Northern Trust is to say that one of his worst 72-hole performances of the year was really not that bad at all.

Woods completed his first FedEx Cup playoff event in five years Sunday at Ridgewood Country Club pretty much the way it began, unable to explain a dearth of birdies and poor putting while shooting a 1-under-par 70 that left him just inside the top 40.

"Just the way it goes," Woods said. "You have good weeks and you have bad weeks. The greens, sometimes they look good to you. Sometimes they don't. All of my good putts, basically, went in at Bellerive [two weeks ago at the PGA Championship] and the bad…