"The more I think about it, the more I feel Tiger Woods is the most underrated player on this tour." Those are the recent words of Paul Goydos. Now I know what you are thinking...who is this comedian? But you are wrong...Paul Goydos is a professional golfer on the PGA tour, but his golf game is about as big of a joke as his one liners.
Tiger Woods is underrated...I am still trying to comprehend that statement. Lets analyze Tiger Woods career for a brief second...
68 PGA Tour Wins including 14 Majors
22 Defended Titles
24 Runner up finishes
17 Third place finishes
9 time PGA Player of the Year
Has won 29% of his professional events (68-245)
$86,914,539 Career Earnings (and no...I did not forget a decimal)
18 Hole-in-ones (First one was at the age of 6)
Has his own video game
and not to mention...is married to the beautiful swedish model, Elin Nordegren...
You know what Paul...I think you may be right...how dare we over look this guy that people call Tiger?
In all seriousness, Goydos' man crush on Tiger is the biggest I have seen since Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. Tiger Woods is about as underrated in golf as Michael Jackson was/is in the entertainment industry. If it wasn't for Tiger Woods, golf wouldn't have near the amount of exposure it has now in pop culture.
Maybe a more reasonable debate would be whether Tiger is the greatest golfer of all-time. While I am not able to accurately answer this question, it brings up an interesting question. How would Tiger have managed in the 70's? With competition like Jack Nicklaus and shittier equipment. I mean, technically he's not the best until he reaches 18 Majors, which there is no doubt in my mind he will do. My personal opinion is that Tigers talent would more than make up for the equipment disadvantage in the 70's and when all is said and done, he will be recognized as the greatest golfer to ever play the game. One thing is for sure, this cat (pun intended...think about it...) is far from being underrated.
I will leave ya with this little video of Tiger doin his thing...
Think and comment,
Nick
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