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Tiger Woods changed golf forever. He made golf cool. He exploded its economics. He challenged what was previously thought possible on the tee.
And here’s how he did it.
Seb Stafford-Bloor writes. Philippe Fenner illustrates.
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#Golf #TigerWoods #PGA
also his iconic nike sponsership made apparall in golf a staple
Before Tiger Woods, the only golf I knew was a Volkswagen.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember watching the 2001 Masters with my dad; neither of us ‘liked’ golf but Woods was just box office. It felt special it watch him
Tiger IS golf today. Every inch of the game now is what it is, because of Tiger. No one man has ever done for an entire sport, what Woods has done for golf. And no one ever shagged as much, doing it.
I dont think another golfer will ever captivate the world the way tiger did truely one of the greats
Completely agree. I've never even been able to describe why he is so compelling to watch. One of a kind. There will never be another.
His son is playing gold now and apparently he's got a lot of potential. If he's as great as his dad, all of Tiger's old fans will instantly have a new favorite golfer.
Tiger woods played golf in 2000 better than anyone had done anything, greatest sportsman ever.
"You were a dork if you played golf while in school". Bruh I would consider that person to be rich
Rich dudes are dorks
Other kids wouldn’t care about your status. If you told them you were playing golf after school, you were a dork. End of.
A rich dork. Like Walter the softie
And now golf is facing this same phenomenon in Bryson Dechambeau. He's hitting 350-400 on drives and is laser accurate too. This happens in any sport. An essential power creep where players keep getting better and better than the previous ones.
A timeless icon. The greatest sport goat of any sport. period. Single handedly revitalised a dying game.
Tiger woods with the mid 2000s video games and play is the only reason I got into golf as a kid.
Grew up near Augusta, started golfing after watching Tiger win the Masters in 1997. 🐅=🐐
Please made all videos with this voice
thanks for not having the american narrating
Tiger Woods, golf GOAT, AMERICAN!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅
@@fprv this is why it's better to not have an american narrating
@@fprvproving his point
This is why y’all lost the revolutionary war, too soft! USA🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
finished the video and immediately paused because and looked into the comments just to read what i had on my mind as the first comment 😂
Truly the Michael Jordan of Golf. Tiger didn't win the most championships ever & had some trouble off the course, but there's no doubt he is the most influential player of all time just like MJ.
Tiger woods is the tiger woods of golf.
@@Tyler_roberts_is_cute Yes just how MJ is to basketball
"Tiger proof the courses" by making it harder...doesnt that just make the course harder for the other players aswell lol?
Yes but it was more to protect the historic scores of those competitions. Tiger pushed competition scoring records at many events when the weather and conditions should’ve made it even harder than usual(i.e. 2000 US Open at pebble beach.)
And inflation? $1 in 1997 is worth $2 today... So the 500k prize is more like $1,000,000 today.
And the games!
There will never be another like him
And he transcend fitness golf as well
Woods was the only Golfer to get me to Tune into golf. The 🐐
Does anyone who actually watch the golf have any tips on who to bet on for the masters?
How can you say 139 players make 1 millions+ in 2023 with an asterisk noting Saudi sports washing has doubled that number in recent years. Hardly an organic increase in prize money.
LIV is not the PGA tour, bud
@@John-xn4gbThe PGA events have been forced to increase their purses by a bunch because of the Saudi involvement.
Tiger didn't wear slim fit clothing 😂
It's all relative
Who is this video supposed to be targeting? Most of the people that are interested in golf related content all ready know this stuff
Use a little bit of your brain to figure out the rest. You're halfway there 🤡 Here's a hint: why are you here?
Nice video. Can you do one on how Evander Kane wins every fight he has in ice hockey lol.
Proper chap
One more won, cat...one more
Was Tiger ever accurate off the tee? I remember him always being a bit wild, but with an uncanny knack of getting out of trouble.
Incredibly accurate, he got close to 70% fairways in the late 90s, it's just his escapes from bad drives made highlight reels
@@daveg4014 I looked at the stats. It was the downturn in the 2000s, where his whole game dropped off, but especially his driving was brought up time and time again.
@@daveg4014Tiger has been mediocre off the tee since 2004.
Tiger's revamped swing from 1999-2002 under Butch made him one of the more accurate drivers, and he led total driving. When he switched his swings under Haney and Foley, his accuracy went downhill.
Had a look at the strokes gained, he was top five every year bar one where he was 6th till 2008, that's when it dropped off
Even Phil stated that Tiger brought the million-dollar paydays.
He certainly accelerated it but the million dollar paydays were coming regardless. Prize money was going up by somewhere between 2.5x-2.8x the two decades before his rookie year. (Just to clarify, each of the two decades before 1996 the prize money had gone up 2.5x or more over 10 years. Not that it had doubled every year) From 96-05 it went up by around 3.3x if I remember correctly. So obviously Tiger played a part in that jump. However, money earned in every sport was increasing at the same time. Tiger can’t be the reason starting pitchers and franchise QB’s were earning bigger salaries.
I will never forget watching the 97 Masters. It was a magical week.
🐯🐯
What Caitlan Clark will do to the WNBA is the potentially the next impact a player will have on changing the perception around their sport.
no
why wasn't the amount in prize money adjusted for inflation...?
Adjusted for inflation, his 1997 check would be $800K in 2019. His actual 2019 check was $2M 3:50
How do you not mention race
Watch the video before commenting.
@@joelmonteiro1419 tbh they barely mention it and it's a crucial part of his story, if you know about how he got into the sport etc.
Yeah it's mentioned almost in passing but it was a huge factor. Like Jeremy Lin's "Linsanity" rise in 2012 with the New York Knicks or P.K. Subban's popularity with the Montreal Canadiens; "looking different" (for better or worse) while being good gets people to pay attention. If Tiger Woods was not "Cablanasian" he's nowhere near as big. That's (ironically) sometimes one of the benefits of being a member of a disadvantaged group lol
@kiroolioneaver8532 if you have the 2nd msot Majors in PGA history, you're going to be a big deal regardless. Tiger has 15, and the closest person who played in his era is Phil with 6. Literally a generational great. You have to go back to the 70s to find comparable achievements
@@BoxOfOranges84 Sure but his background is what enabled him to breakthough as a cultural phenonomna and grow golf into what it is today. Lots of demographics never paid attention to golf before Tiger. It's like hockey. If Auston Matthews (Mexican American) had played in a big American market like New York or LA he'd help bring a lot of new fans into hockey.
but Golf-big money soon meet its end cuz limited airing and kid nowadays rarely watch sport that aint scoring lots of points.
first
OUCH. Going from Joe to whomever that Sasquatch was at the end literally hurt my ears.
And They did everything to bring him down over the years - the treatment he got was terrible at best, in contrast to a Micheal Jordan i.e. … Which makes what he has done … all the more impressive
He may have done everything you’ve mentioned except the 1 thing, he really didn’t make it cool. It’s literally the most uncool sport next to darts.
If I was making over 1million for 4 days work I would.
He was not the first non white person to win masters….vijay Singh won it in 2000. Blacker than tiger lol (tiger half Asian)
Tiger won in 1997, which was before 2000. And neither Black nor Asian qualify as "white".