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Now, track back to pre-Tiger. Senior tour was getting solidly better ratings than the main PGA in the mid-90s. With good reason if your gonna watch a golf game on TV which would you rather watch: Greg Norman choke again, or ChiChi doing that sword thing after a putt. And the LPGA was moving up (while the other PGA was plummeting, crossover point was coming). Remember there wasn't even a WNBA back then. Now in the Tiger world LPGA is back in the toilet and the senior tour is losing popularity. But that's not how things were in the couple years before Tiger showed up.

Tiger is a phenom that hasn't been seen since Michael Jordan in his prime.You are so right that without him, who would care to watch a David Duvall or Davis Love, etc....the pro ranks have no characters, no flash, no charisma.Tiger is carrying the Tour on his back.