Tiger Woods and Golf
Golf gets an unlucky reputation as a boring pastime, as not exciting to watch on TV. Yet every season PGA tournaments get top ratings, offering high intensity in the form of courtly leisure. Golf also has had a stereotype as one of the least athletic pastimes—a handful of hefty figures in the tour supported this argument. Of late, however, we see an offering of skilled athletes displaying feats of strength, grace and skill on par with any other sport. Wholesale jersey goods wouldn’t not look like big business for golf, but a single golfer has products everyone looks for. No man represents this metamorphosis more than Tiger Woods.
Tiger, whose actual first name is Eldrick, burst onto the scene in ’91 as one of the most talented amateur players ever seen, when he won the US Junior Amateur Championship at only fifteen, the youngest ever to win the event. Since the first part of his childhood Tiger had been a precocious golfer, having out-putted Bob Hope on national television at age 3. After making a name by winning the Junior Amateur Championship, he went on to win it 2 more times in a row—the championship’s only multiple victor. He was the single amateur to make the cut at the Masters at the still maturing age of nineteen. Jersey wholesalers were already seeing the chance to make big bucks off his shirts by this age. When he became 20 he became a professional, and has not looked back since.
Tiger has won an astonishing fourteen major events and has won all four of the majors at least three times. Only the master Arnold Palmer won more, and Tiger is expected to one day secure that record as well. He has won the Masters and the PGA Championship each 4 times, all in just more than ten years. He is everywhere celebrated as the best golfer in the world, perhaps of all time. Wholesale jerseys of the line donned by Tiger have moved in the millions. His inauguration into the sport was one of both history and controversy. The first African-American golfer to achieve these triumphs in an historically all-White sport, many of the golf clubs he played on the tour would not admit him as a member. He has silenced these people by becoming one of the globe’s most well-known and capable athletes, the premier sports figure of our era.
What Tiger Woods has brought to golf is athleticism, forcing every other player to maintain his health. Gone are the eras of chubby golfers competing to win events. He has brought skill which has forced his competitors to compete even better. He has brought an intensity and focus which is astounding to follow each and every week. And the man has offered jersey wholesalers an armload of custom. In short, he has transformed the reputation of golf from something one turns on while napping on the recliner to something one perches on the edge of the couch for. Tiger Woods has made golf one of the planet’s most exciting sports, an honor simply unprecented in the game’s legendary history.
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