It’s not a secret that a big day for Tiger Woods, normally leads to a big day for the broadcast networks. However, given that it’s been five years since Woods’ last PGA win, it would be fair for one to assume that a victory would lead to even greater ratings.
Although Kyle Stanley won the Quicken Loans golf tournament last week, for many there eyes were focused on last year’s champion Billy Hurley III.
“I feel good, not great,” Tiger Woods told chief executive of the R&A, Peter Dawson. “I don’t think I’ll ever feel great again because it’s been three back surgeries and four knee operations.”
What could the PGA Tour’s 23-year-old two-time major winner and proverbial “future of golf” possibly be talking about last week at the Hero World Challenge when he said “it is really exciting for us and for golf … He can truly help get the numbers back up in golf,” about a 4o-year-old # 898th ranked player in the World teeing it up after a fifteen-month layoff?
Jack Nicklaus, arguably the best golfer in the history of the game, offered a fuzzy argument that golfers can speed up play and courses can avoid closing their doors if only we modify the size of the golf ball.
Two-time US Open winner Andy North was left bewildered by the PGA tour’s decision leave Trump’s Doral resort course near Miami, Florida, for Mexico City next year.
“They move the World Golf Championships from Miami to Mexico City,” Donald Trump commented. “They moved the PGA Tour, moved the World Golf Championships from Miami, where they’re furious to Mexico City. If I become your president, this stuff is all going to stop,” Trump added. He went on to criticize the U.S. economy for being taken advantage of by Mexico.
According to a recent survey of over 50 PGA Tour players, seventy percent of them believe that Tiger Woods will never win another major championship.
Troubled Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel threw a water bottle at a heckler in an incident that didn’t lead to any arrests or charges at the AT&T Byron Nelson golf tournament.
On Monday gaming company Electronic Arts Inc. announced the replacement of Tiger Woods on the cover of their PGA Tour game with Rory McIlroy.
With the PGA tour raking in big bucks from advertising, part of which comes from tour caddies wearing corporate logos on their bibs, 80 professional caddies joined in a $50 million lawsuit charging that they deserve some of the spoils for their role as unpaid roaming billboards.
