That doesn't mean every golfer except Tiger is looking at a lifetime of trouble. There are worse ways to make a living than putting on greens smooth as pool tables and driving courtesy cars some of us couldn't afford on 48-month financing. No fewer than 79 men earned more than a half-million dollars on last year's PGA Tour. You can still get rich and hammered by Tiger at the same time. It just doesn't give us much of a contest to watch.
Tiger transforms golf from competition to exhibition.
He turns every opponent so tight you couldn't drive a two-penny nail up their nostrils with a jackhammer. Either that or they surrender before they tee off. Today's Tiger Woods is the only athlete alive who could match Michael Jordan for sheer celebrity. You must have seen that look on Tiger's face while he was chopping Pebble Beach into chili. We have seen it only once on anyone else lately, and now even Jordan lives in Tiger's shadow.