Tiger joins John Daly’s exes as those who have Rolexes, signs 1st major endorsement deal in a couple of years. Tiger’s wrist has gone sponsor-less since Tag Heuer dropped him a few months ago but now has a new sponsor in Rolex.
Tiger will be a global ambassador for Swiss watch maker.
Comment Central
Already the Tiger/Time puns and comments are rolling in across the digital landscape. It is interesting how polarizing Tiger is to people. Some comments from Twitter (none of which are mine):
Is it Tiger’s Time once again?
Tiger doing time with Rolex
In the Tiger Woods pool, if you had “new endorsement deal” before “next victory,” congrats. You win.
Their watches must be slow – time caught up with Tiger two years ago.
Tiger Woods signs sponsorship deal with Rolex, will now be able to tell that it’s time to retire.
In related News Tag Heuer executives clean out offices.
Time is now.
Perfect timing.
Time is of the essence for Tiger.
Hopefully, his fancy watch comes with a compass to find his errant tee shots.
I have a feeling he’s gunna be making an epic comeback next season.
Time heals?
Never thought I’d see him playing in a fall series event but this week Tiger Woods is playing in the FRYS.com Open. Seems like every golf publication, golf forum, golf blog and golf social network entity is posting a “how will Tiger do?” article. Ok, I’ll bite.
How Will Tiger Do? Food for thought:
Tiger has found a new, permanent caddie, Dustin Johnson’s now former looper Joe LaCava.
Tiger has just recorded a course record 62 this past week at The Medalist Club in Hobe Sound, Florida. The media have been going nuts about this. I look at it a couple of ways. Yes, a 62 is amazing. But consider that this is a no-pressure round with no media, no gallery and no field of Tour players gunning for him. Can he bring that to a Tour event?
One a permanent fixture in the #1 world golf ranking, Tiger has dropped 50 spots to 51st.
This week’s field at the FRYS is very weak in world golf ranking. I haven’t had the time or desire to research this one myself, but I heard mentioned that TW was the highest ranked player in the field at 51. Update: Whoever mentioned that was incorrect. Louis Oosthuizen is ranked 49. Not going to go any deeper looking at player rankings for this field of 120.
Your Opinion? How Will Tiger Do?
Comment in here how you think Tiger will fare this week and why.
High Fives?
Personally, I’m most interested to see how Tiger and Joe’s high fives fly. I wonder if they’ve been working on them on the practice range and if so, will they be able to bring that to the course?
You can stop sending in your resumes now. Yesterday Tiger Woods announced that he found a permanent caddie, Joe LaCava. Joe LaCava is now formerly Dustin Johnson’s caddie.
Read the full quote below from Tiger’s web site: (more…)
Yesterday I posted a table of players who made it into the next round (3) of the FedEx Cup playoffs. Today we are looking at the rest of the top 150–the 80 players who did NOT make it into the BMW Championship or round three of the playoffs. There are some surprisingly big names in this list, Tiger Woods of course being the biggest. Poor Kevin Na missed it by literally a hair, 10 points. Other big names which surprise me are Retief Goosen, Stuart Appleby, Ian Poulter, Padraig Harrington, Anthony Kim and Graeme McDowell.
Players who are OUT of the FedEx Cup Playoffs (more…)
I’ve had the opportunity to meet Rocco Mediate on several occasions and he has always been very cool. He’s a very positive cat, so it was quite surprising to read how critical he has been of Tiger Woods’s swing. Check out these quotes Rocco gave the San Francisco Chronicle.
I love the way he plays, but I’m disgusted with what’s going on with him because it’s sad for our game. A lot of guys are happy Tiger isn’t playing well. I’m not.
The physical motion is wrong. To get that stress off his body is a piece of cake–the guys working with him just don’t know. Sean knows some stuff, but what’s going on with Tiger is not correct. That’s why he keeps breaking and that’s why the ball keeps going sideways.
Wow. Gotta hand it to Roc for speaking his mind.
On the positive side Rocco commented on Tiger entering the Frys.com in the fall:
He’s trying to get better, trying to figure out his swing problem. When he gets his stuff together, he’ll be No. 1 again and everything will be back to normal.
Rocco even mentions Tiger’s previous swing coach Hank Haney:
Starting with Haney until now, it was a complete and absolute destruction. If it was me I would say to Tiger, ‘Look, dude, I’m not helping you. You’re getting worse. You’ve broken down three times and you’ve had 57 knee surgeries. It’s not happening.’
I’m not the first to mention this, but perhaps there’s a VHarness sales pitch coming soon from Rocco to Tiger?
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