Golf Just Took A Big Hit

It's going to be hard to measure what another prolonged rehab by Tiger Woods will have on golf, and especially golf on TV.  He might never play competitively again and others were just happy he survived a horrendous car crash it is reported he doesn't remember.

I've played golf, I've attended PGA tournaments in Miami regularly, and I like watching golf on Sunday Afternoons as much as I like baseball or football on TV.

Tiger Woods may be the greatest of all time in the game of golf.  He may not be held on to as reverently as Arnold Palmer of ice tea and lemonade fame but he made golf a spectator sport for many that never owned a set of golf clubs.  Sometimes I wondered why they covered Tiger on TV when he wasn't in contention to win a tournament.  In my small golf focus group, the most popular answer was if Tiger wasn't part of the broadcast, it wasn't worth watching.

In person it was difficult to follow Tiger on the course, you were better off getting the best place to sit or stand near the action a few holes ahead of his fans and then watch him play that hole and then decide the next plan of action.  For a while I felt sorry for the guys that were paired with him, nobody was accustomed to the crowds he drew.

I like Dustin, Justin, Rory, Ricky and a few others.  The game of golf will go on but the "Majors" and the rest of the field may need some time to recover.

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