You only need to look at Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson to see that the best players in the world are not just golfers now, but athletes. Here, we assess four ways Tiger Woods has changed the game of golf over the past two decades.Īlmost every player out on Tour right now is an athlete: They don’t just spend time practicing their games, but dedicate a lot of time to physically preparing themselves in the gym. Players now turn Pro as teenagers, courses have been ‘Tiger proofed’, prize funds increased, and as he quipped in his post-victory press conference, even Phil Mickelson is in the gym these days. Since his debut he’s broken almost every record there is, and changed the face of golf to an unregonisable entity. When he came out on Tour he was unlike anyone else out there: He was young, supremely athletic and hit the ball for miles. Nike’s new policy means Reed no longer gets to wear those colours on a Sunday, but none-the-less it seemed a fitting tribute to the man who achieved the biggest comeback in sports history.įrom 1997, when he won his first major as a 21 year old, Tiger has been a dominant force in the game. I always thought, you know, it would be cool to wear black and red on Sunday.” “The best player ever to live when I was growing up wore black pants, a red shirt,” Reed told The Augusta Chronicle in 2018. Yet there he was on the 18th green being helped back in to his green jacket for a fifth time by Patrick Reed – a man who wore black and red on a Sunday exclusively for a long time simply because his idol did. Where is the light at the end of the tunnel? I don’t know.” “It’s literally just day by day and week by week and time by time. “There’s really nothing I can look forward to, nothing I can build towards,” he had said in 2015. At his worst, before the final surgery, Woods could barely move without pain. It followed a decade of injury problems, personal scandals and no major titles, and there was a feeling it was the end of an era. “I don’t know what the future holds for me,” Woods had said in September 2017 at the Presidents Cup. It resulted in a fused spine, and he was left doubting whether he’d ever return to the game. It was a feat that seemed unfathomable just under two years ago when he withdrew from the Masters to have a fourth back surgery. Golf World Top 100: Best Golf Courses and Resorts.
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