Last weekends PGA event at Bay Hill was your typical tournament. It had all the normal storylines for a PGA tournament, a relatively unknown won, not a lot of people watched, and all the TV sports reporters said that Tiger was in contention. If you have watched any golf this season you know that every tournament that Tiger has played in this year he has been said to be in contention at one point or another.
Now saying Tiger is in contention may not seem strange, only three years ago he was by far the best golfer in the world. But in those three years things have changed. This year alone he has only one top ten finish, and finished out of the top 20 the rest of the time. This week tiger shot four under par in his second round. Tiger was still six shots back and all you heard on ESPN was “Tiger in contention at Bay Hill”. Six shots is not that close, It would be like saying Charlie Sheen is in contention for the Boys and Girls Club’s Person of the Year Award.
To be fair it does generate excitement, if ESPN had the headline “Martin Laird in contention at Bay Hill” it would have probably only got one viewer (Martin’s dear old mum).
Everyone knows sex sells, and in the case of Pro Golf that seems to be no different. In the past two years Tiger has sold more People Magazines than golf balls. And it seems like a fair comparison to say he is a bit like Charlie Sheen. A large group of people that don’t normally watch golf, now watch to see if Tiger will get a lap dance on the 18th tee.
I guess for right now us Golf fans will have to wait for the next tiger and hope that he isn’t in to the whole strippers and pain killer thing. I mean we can hope right.
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