While most accounts of Tiger Woods’ troubles begin with his 2009 sex scandal, the most pronounced struggles for the 14-time Major champion appear to have begun after his 2013 Player of the Year season.
The financial meanderings of the golf business won’t ever be confused with the excitement of a Players Championship, but when one of golf’s leading companies changes hands, it reverberates in its own special way like a eagle-birdie-birdie finish at TPC Sawgrass.
Si Woo Kim’s three-stroke victory over Ian Poulter and Louis Oosthuizen this morning at TPC Sawgrass was the second of his career and easily the biggest.
How Jordan Spieth came to partner Ryan Palmer at next week’s two-man Zurich Classic of New Orleans; how Wesley Bryan celebrated his US PGA Tour breakthrough; Ian Poulter’s malaise; a rare Tiger Woods sighting; the online furore over Jason Dufner’s ‘putter drop’; and is it time for a Ryan to win again?
Tiger Woods is miscast these days, a perpetual headliner now yesterday’s news. Or yesteryears’ news. The anniversaries have entered the precious metals stage, platinum this time, 20 years since his 12-stroke victory in the Masters.
Overnight, Tiger Woods announced a new golf course design at Big Cedar Lodge in Missouri. Called “Payne’s Valley” in honour of the late Payne Stewart, the course features a 19th hole to help settle ties/bets.
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