Does Golf Without Tiger Woods Sound Good to You? Don’t Be So Sure

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Published: June 9, 2010

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Justin Rose won his first PGA tournament this past weekend. Exciting, huh? Good for him. Nice English chap. Jolly good.

Zach Johnson won the week before at the Colonial in Texas. That's nice. Good Iowa kid.

Who else has won this year? Jason Day. OK. Jason Bohn. Nice. Hunter Mahan, Ben Crane, Steve Stricker. Are these names doing anything for you?

Do we have any guys who have won more than once, you ask? Jim Furyk and Ernie Els is the answer.

How many times have they won?

Twice each.

When is the last time they won?

Oh, over two months ago, eh?

Ok. So where is the drama of someone taking this sport by the teeth? Where is the guy with four or five wins? Where is the catch me if you can mentality?

On Sunday I was watching the Memorial. Closed my eyes for a moment and when I opened them two hours later golf was over. I didn't even check to see who had won until SportsCenter that night. Why? Because deep down, it didn't really matter to me. Any one of five or six guys could have won. Didn't really matter who. I like watching golf because it's golf. I still like watching it, but the 'who won this week?' mentality doesn't do it for me anymore.

Golf is missing its zing. Its drama. Its domination. Parity is going to kill golf.

Not kill it as in it will be gone. No. It will kill it by sucking the energy and life out of it. Golf will leave the city and go racing back to the suburbs for cover. We'll transform golf back to 1978 and have to start all over again.

Some may like that. Not me. And certainly not the television networks and sponsors that cover the PGA Tour. Golf fans need someone to dominate; to root for and, just as much, to root against.

And network TV needs their cash cow back.

All sports are boring if they have no dominant force. No team or player to love or hate. If there were no dyna...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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