Is Bill Clinton still pals with Greg Norman and falling down the stairs at 2:00am to get "a hoagie"? More like chasing some tail at Greg's place. No wonder Greg's wife just left him.
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The FedEx Cup will make a big difference. For 10 million, Tiger will show up for some smaller tournaments for a change.
Thanks, FedEx!
But I'd still like to see one tourney where all the players use the exact same equipment. I think that would be fun to watch.
Shark on a rapid downslope to asst. club pro statis. Tiger is an absolute marvel, the game is better today than at anytime in my lifetime thanks to Woods.
They need to recruit that Kim Jong Il fella from North Korea. I hear he shot a 38 under par and had 5 aces in his first game ever! Hell, I'd watch that!
Greg Norman is so far past his prime that it's not funny.
GO VIJAY!
I didn't watch basketball when Jordan was with the Bulls. Didn't hurt the NBA at all.
I read this and started choking.
Must have a greg norman in my throat?
That fool needs to shut up, as everyone knows that cablinasian viewership is up 1000%
Another reason for the ratings decline in those early season events: we had a record warm winter in the northern US last winter, so more people were out doing other things.
All that's happening is Tigermania is wearing off. Compare todays numbers against tourneys BEFORE Tiger came on the scene.
Taking nothing away from Tiger, but golf's popularity took the biggest boost ever 50 years ago with Arnie Palmer followed by Nicklaus, Travino and Player gunning it out every week for one championship or another. They were all highly talented, but also personable, approachable, down to earth guys who made people feel that golf was not simply a "rich man's" sport.
That is when the golf took off in both the public imagination and in actual numbers of people who took up the game. Their personalities caused purses to rise to the point where guys today who never win a tournament can become millionaires.
Tiger has been good for the sport, but I have to disagree that he contributed as much as those players from the mid 50s through 60s did.
Sour grapes Greg?
I wonder what the attendance numbers for most of these tournaments are. I'd wager they are much higher today than when Norman was playing on the tour. And that is because of Tiger.
Where are the pictures of his wife?
Tiger has a big-time profanity problem. That is a big turnoff for me and many others.
The only thing that went stagnant was Bubba Clinton after he fell off of Greg Norman's Florida porch thereby slowing his skirt chasing to a crawl(at least I think Norman was the golfer who hosted Bubba?).
"Players need to bring the spirit back," Norman said. "There have always been great players to bring people to the game to lighten it up so that it's not so serious.
"Look at what (Rafael) Nadal has done for tennis because of the way he is, like a boxer. You never hear anyone coming out and saying I want to beat Tiger Woods - I haven't heard that," Norman added. "Nadal comes out and says he wants to beat Roger Federer because he's No. 1 and that's great for tennis."
Looks to me that he's saying that the rest of the field needs to step it up a notch or two, not that Tiger is bad for the sport.
The most boring channel on cable is the Golf Channel.
Are the only ways to measure success related to TV ratings and double digit growth?
Living in Florida and being an avid golfer myself, I wish a few more people would quit the game. Maybe TV ratings are down because people are out playing it instead of sitting on their asses watching it.