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HOW DOES GOLF DEAL
WITH TIGER’S TALE?
The game of golf in general and the men’s professional game in particular has
benefitted massively, financially and in popularity, since the arrival on the scene
of one EldrickTont ‘Tiger’ Woods and turned professional back in 1995 before
sweeping all before him for a generation.
By Michael Wilson
ut now, with Woods career halted
and his life seemingly on the skids,
history will view the royal and
ancient game on how it deals with
the deep decline in the fortunes, and both the
physical and mental health of what has been,
for 20 years, its most prized asset. Perhaps
50 G o l f P l u s
JULY
– but not necessarily – it’s a tad too soon
to be writing an obituary for Tiger Woods,
although, from afar, it’s hard to see any light
at the end of a very long and dark tunnel for
the career and wellbeing of the man who
not only ruled global golf but also sport
worldwide for two irresistible, pulsating,
2017
electrifying decades. From the very day
the man who had been shaped for sporting
stardom since the age of three won the fi rst
of 106 professional events – oppositely
the 1996 Las Vegas Classic – until his
last, to date, the 2013 WGC Bridgestone
Invitational, the game of golf held itself