Tiger Woods

The weekend at Doral slated two of golf’s premier heavyweights against each other, once again, in what became a dramatic fight to the finish. No, it wasn’t the promising pairing of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson during the first three rounds that etched the week’s final headlines. It was two buzzwords—youth and Europe—that led the way, both of which have resounded on tour now for some time. Youth, in the end, prevailed in the wide-eyed gaze of 29-year-old Nick Watney. But before getting to Watney’s heroics, let’s quickly recap some of the top finishers. Of the nine players to finish [...]

If you’re a golf fan, and enjoy playing the occasional video game, then chances are you’ve played the Tiger Woods franchise before. While it’s obviously not the real thing, it’s still fun to pick up the controller and try to shoot under par at one of the many great courses that are incorporated into the game from year to year. And while playing Pebble Beach and St. Andrews never really gets old, there’s always been something missing. Luckily, that something is missing no more.

We already know what happened last week at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. It was easily the worst week of professional golf that we have seen Tiger Woods play in his stellar career, and many (including myself), were starting to wonder just how bad things could get for Tiger. Well, instead of carrying over last week’s abomination to this week, he instead came out hot early, and is currently only a few shots off the lead.

With the final major of the year less than 24 hours away, I find myself struggling to make a decision of who to pick as my favorites for the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.  On some levels, my Tiger Woods fandom tells me he knows how big this tournament is in respect to his Ryder Cup status and perhaps his Fed Ex Cup point standings.  But on the other hand, Tiger is a head case right now and I don’t know what to expect anymore. 

This past week at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational was one filled with storylines that may have leave a lasting impact in the world of golf for more than just a few rounds. There was the whole Tiger Woods meltdown that left him at 18-over par at the end of the tournament. And there was the calf tear by Lee Westwood, who was chasing Tiger in the world rankings, and trying to build momentum towards the PGA Championship where he could capture his first-ever major. And then there was Phil Mickelson.

Well it certainly wasn’t the worst round Tiger Woods has ever shot.  Sure it looked bad, but the final round 77 on Sunday wasn’t as bad as the 81 in the 2002 Open Championship or the 79 or 78 he has shot in two other professional tournaments.  Tiger finished the tournament at 18-over.  The bad part, the final tournament score looked worse considering he had to play all four rounds.  In any other tournament, if he would have started 74-72 like he did in rounds one and two, he would have hopped on his Gulfstream on Friday and not been [...]

The title above might be the most shocking I’ve seen in the game of golf in a while. Tiger Woods, former superman of golf, all-planet performer, and possibly the greatest to ever play the game, has wrapped up his week at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. And it’s easily the worst week of golf we’ve ever seen this man play, as Tiger topped his career-worst at Firestone yet again by shooting a 77, and finishing at +18 for the week.

I was watching the pre-game show this morning on The Golf Channel before the early coverage of the Bridgestone Invitational started and Frank Nobilo made a point that got me thinking.  He said if Phil Mickelson does happen to overtake the top spot in the world golf rankings, it would be better if he did it by actually winning the tournament instead of just finishing high enough to take the top spot.  His point was by winning, people may look at Phil as actually the BEST PLAYER in the world, rather than by just finishing high enough and people thinking [...]

Yesterday, we talked about the disappointing ventures of Tiger Woods in the first two days of the 2010 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. After all, a 74 and a 72 simply isn’t Tiger-like at Firestone. Well, Tiger managed to top that career-worst 74 at the course, as he struggled to a round of 75, and is currently only two spots away from being in last place on the leaderboard.

Hello ladies and gentlemen.  I want to thank Blake for the kind introduction yesterday as well as giving me the chance to write on PGN.  With my first post I am going to do something simple and give you my predictions for this week’s Bridgestone Invitational.

A few days ago, we talked about Tiger Woods’ video game taking a huge hit in terms of sales from last year to this year. Now let’s take a look at how Tiger’s endorsements have fared since the affairs heard round the world. I’ll give you one guess as to whether he gained or lost money during this whole process.

When the whole Tiger Woods scandal took off, we all knew that there would be ramifications as far as the eye could see. His public image was shattered, he lost sponsors, he lost friends, and is now facing a divorce from his wife Elin. But now, let’s turn our attention to the effect on the video gaming industry. More specifically, the little detail that came out today that includes this important factoid: Tiger’s PGA Tour video game’s first-month sales are down 68% from year ago. Wonder why that is?