Golf's post-Tiger Woods era has officially arrived
The moment the sport of golf — its players, its executives, its sponsors — has dreaded for nearly three decades is here.
It’s here. The moment the sport of golf — its players, its executives, its sponsors — has dreaded for nearly three decades. It’s time to face a world without Tiger Woods.
Like a dreamer in a warm bed hitting snooze again and again, the entire sport of golf has pushed off this moment of reckoning. And why not? Woods transformed his sport like almost no other single athlete in history.
He transformed a niche sport into a mainstream one. He added zeroes to the bank accounts of everyone involved in the game. He embodied a relentless dominance that singlehandedly reshaped golf from its pleats-and-plaid image into aspirational cool.
And clearly, it all came at terrible personal cost to Woods himself. “I know and understand the seriousness of the situation I find myself in today,” Woods wrote in a post on X Tuesday evening , his first public statement since a Friday wreck and arrest, his fourth major traffic incident involving the police. “I am stepping away for a period of time to seek treatment and focus on my health.
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