How the 2010 Masters May Have Saved Professional Golf

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Published: April 12, 2010

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The biggest star the game of golf has ever seen was involved in one of the nastiest sex scandals any of us had ever seen.

Television ratings were slashed in half for most of the season.

Players were accused of cheating due to the PGA Tour’s sloppy implantation of the grooves rule.

At least two tournaments will be without sponsors in 2010 and another handful may be without sponsors in 2011.

In Tiger Woods’ absence, Ernie Els was the only player to step up and play some good golf, and even he did not come close to filling the void Woods had left behind.  

Professional golf was, for lack of a better term, heading down the tubes…until last weekend.

Throughout history, many professional leagues, organizations and teams have found themselves in dire situations.

More often than not, it’s a player or a group of players that come along and save a particular franchise or league.

Rarely can a single game or series be pointed to as the event that saved a sport.

Well, we might have just witnessed a golf tournament that will go down in history as the single event that saved modern day professional golf.

The 2010 Masters had it all, and more.

The shamed superstar returned to try and reassert his dominance.

The tortured British golfer with sleepy eyes was attempting to reach the pinnacle of professional golf after years of hardship in the game.

The young guns were attempting to break down the door and seize major championship glory.  

The old folks were attempting to defy father time.

The Asian golfer was attempting to show the world that Y.E. Yang’s shocking PGA Championship win was no fluke.

The family man was trying to win one for his wife who had been suffering from cancer for the past year.

And all of this took place in the most beautif...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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