I wouldn't want them to be any other way. I'm not saying that if Jenny McCarthy wrote something for the New York Review of Books that I wouldn't read it, but I don't want it to cloud an otherwise perfect image. What makes an athlete interesting is the character he displays in play, and to do that you have to have competition. Golf has been ready to boom in this country since well before Tiger Woods. I don't think so.
Golf can boom, but the game needs new idols.
If hundreds of thousands of young people of both sexes and all colors are going to swarm onto the course they need someone new to emulate. Right now, I don't see the new idols appearing. In lieu of that, the editors of the new golf magazines, such as Maximum Golf, have discovered a large and growing audience consisting of young males who have fantasies of being Andre Agassi but don't want to sweat so hard. But that audience isn't going to stick around long or grow without real golf getting more competitive, without some interesting new rivalries springing up. And right now they're not springing up.