Woods is without a major victory since the 2008 US Open and without a tournament win since November 2009 but he was still world No1 as recently as last October.
He is without a tournament win this season.
Without the tournament – and its huge profits – Fifa would be nothing, Sepp Blatter would be nothing.
A CBS Sports without the tournament, he said, would mean less regular-season basketball.
On the PGA Tour career money list, Kendall's $6.57 million ranks 85th, the highest among those without a tournament victory.
It seemed Canada might be without a tournament next season after anti-tobacco legislation doomed the du Maurier Classic.
So for the first time since 1989 he may finish a year without a tournament win of any kind.
He has been debating whether to continue since he beat Andre Agassi in the United States Open final after more than two years without a tournament victory.
Sampras, winner of a record 14 Grand Slam singles titles, had gone two years without a tournament victory when he arrived at the Open in 2002.
This season, as competition increased in intensity with the Games looming, his team showed strongly but finished without a tournament title and one place down, in sixth.
