{"id":870,"date":"2019-04-12T03:02:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T08:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/?p=870"},"modified":"2019-04-15T15:12:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T20:12:11","slug":"tigers-two-biggest-accomplishments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/tigers-two-biggest-accomplishments\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger’s Two Biggest “Accomplishments”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What are Tiger’s two biggest accomplishments?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As we see Tiger Woods lurking near the top of the\nleaderboard after the first day of the 2019 Masters, we hear a lot of people in\nthe golf world (and beyond), talking about what a Tiger victory would mean to\nthe golf world.  There can be no doubt about\nhis drawing power and the TV ratings that he drives for any golf tournament in\nwhich he participates.  The energy and\npassion around the events go up tenfold when he competes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, I have always argued that Tiger’s two biggest\naccomplishments have come outside of competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DRESS CODE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For almost the last 100 years, a collared shirt has been a\nmandate at virtually every golf club in the United States (and most other\ncountries).  Try walking onto a private\ncountry club in a tank-top, t-shirt or anything other than a standard polo, and\nyou will be rapidly escorted either back to your vehicle (to leave) or directly\nto the pro-shop (to purchase a new shirt).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiger changed that. \nAlmost single-handedly. I saw almost because we know that Nike had an\nenormous influence in that marketing play, but even Nike would not have had the\npower to institute that change, but for Tiger’s power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that Tiger could show up wearing a mock-turtleneck\nshirt at one golf tournament and that the entire golf industry would be flipped\nupside-down is a testament to that power. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I doubt that you can think of any athlete who created such a\nlarge change.  Even Michael Jordan’s famed\nAir Jordan brand did not have that same influence.  High-tops were a strong fashion before and\nwhile he took them to an entirely new level, it was still essentially just a\nredesign of an existing product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the chart of golf fashion, this was a true seismic\nchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AFFAIRS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiger’s other accomplishment” is equally astounding, though\nless exemplary.  While he was roaming the\nglobe with all of his golf success, Tiger was apparently sneaking around behind\nhis wife’s back.  This is hardly\nnoteworthy, since it occurs on a daily basis. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What makes his story different is not that he had a\nbeautiful wife and young children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The remarkable element of his story is that Tiger was able to\nkeep over 100 women quiet.  His cheating\nremained hidden from social media, from leaks from his agency, leaks from his\nfriends and leaks from the women he was keeping time with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a world where any action, inaction or mis-deed goes viral\nwithin seconds, it is truly hard to fathom how Tiger was able to keep a lid on\nthis story for so long.  Having the\nability to keep that many women happy (or at minimum, not angry”) is a huge\naccomplishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For better or for worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should be an interesting weekend at Augusta.  But in my view, even a Tiger win will no\neclipse either of these accomplishments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What are Tiger Woods’ biggest accomplishments? My take might surprise you as I look at two areas where Tiger has performed feats beyond reasonable expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[370],"tags":[337,6,359],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}