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• Genre: Sports
• Release: Mar 27, 2012
• Platform: Xbox 360
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Tiger Woods returns for another year of hitting the greens, this time with Kinect support. Is this year's installment good enough to wear the jacket, or has the lustre faded on the series?

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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 Review

Tiger Woods 13 still presents a reasonably good golf game, but there isn't much new here save subtly improved PS Move and gamepad controls.

By Brett Todd on April 2, 2012 at 4:48PM PDT

The Tiger Woods series is struggling to find its way. After sticking with the troubled superstar over the past few years of scandal and an extended slump, EA Sports doesn't seem to know what to do with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 on the PlayStation 3. This could have been a very good golf game, but its identity has been watered down with a lame mode where you play as Eldrick Tont Woods from tyke to today and beyond, and extortionate downloadable content. Gamepad swing mechanics have been nicely overhauled, PS Move support has been jazzed up to improve on last year's already very good motion-sensing controls, and the new Country Club mode promises to help the game establish an online community, but taken together, all the new features don't add up to anything meaningful.

There isn't much new in Tiger Woods 13. The look and sound of the game haven't improved much over earlier releases, although there do seem to be more nifty shadow effects on courses and a few more commentary lines from main booth jockey Jim Nantz. The core game is essentially brought forward from last year in its entirety. All the main modes of play are back for another round. You can play one-off matches, set up a golfer and begin a pro career, head online for multiplayer tournaments, head to The Masters again, and so forth.

The most significant addition is Tiger Legacy, where you play as the great one in various stages of his life, from childhood to the present day and beyond. Sadly, Tiger's life was extraordinarily tedious, if this game is to be believed. EA does nothing of interest with this feature. All it does is provide different Tiger player models to look at while you shoot your way through boring challenges like dropping balls into a backyard wading pool, hitting target scores in rounds, helping Tiger break Jack Nicklaus' record for victories in the Majors, and so forth.

A much more notable change comes with the gamepad swing mechanics. Standard button pushing has been tweaked pretty extensively in the new Total Swing Control for the gamepad. It works a fair bit like the left-stick-oriented control scheme from last year, but with more options and more attention paid to things like the tempo of your swing and foot position. In other words, it's a little harder to nail long drives that split the fairway, or make accurate approach shots that land you a couple of feet from the cup, especially when you nudge the difficulty above pro. But you get used to the changes quickly.

While this is a superior system, one that offers you a great deal more control in all aspects of making shots, it isn't so dramatically better that it makes the game a must-buy. That said, it does offer the best putting mechanics in the history of the series. Putting is spectacularly accurate here. The thumbstick perfectly tracks your motions when pulling back and pushing forward, letting you make some jaw-dropping 50-footers, or at least put up some valiant attempts and get close to the cup. Say good-bye to the annoying old days of cursing out your thumbs when a putt inexplicably came up too short or wound up running 20 feet too long because the controls let you down.

Move support is offered, as in last year's game, and it works well. It is clearly superior to the Kinect motion-sensing option offered in the Xbox 360 version, with more accurate movement tracking. Pretty much every move you make is registered, so you don't have to deal with the Kinect frustrations of having to take swings multiple times before they are registered by the game. But they're not just superior to the Kinect controls; they're superior to last year's Move controls, too. Previously, it was a lot tougher to tell just how much oomph you needed to put into these swinging motions when pitching and chipping and hitting out of sand or rough, which often left you coming up short or sailing past the flag. Now, the Move seems to more precisely track your motions, letting you more accurately gauge how hard you need to swing.

Putting is still a bit more of a pain than it should be, though, with too much effort needed to swing through even five-foot tap-ins. It isn't nearly as bad as last year, where it seemed more like you were swinging a scythe in a farm field than finessing putts, but it's still off. If you approach a putt with the delicate touch often needed in real life, you might be lucky to nudge the ball ahead a foot. Regardless of these putting gripes, the Move offers a very good simulation of real golf. Shots are so satisfying at times that you feel like doing some authentic Tiger fist pumps.

A few problems get between you and the greens. While you are treated to a lot of content, with 16 courses in the main game, loads of freebies and easily unlockable equipment, and other extras, EA beats you over the head with pay-to-play DLC. A huge part of the game has been dedicated to yanking more cash out of your wallet for courses, skill boosts, equipment, and so forth. You can earn coins within the game that can be used to purchase these goodies, but this requires a spectacular amount of grinding.

If you really want the extras, most notably the numerous DLC courses that the game constantly teases you with, you pretty much have to pay for them. The same goes for the golf bag pins that provide you with various buffs during rounds. You get the first pack free, and can theoretically earn the rest of them with lots of time on the links, but it's hard to imagine finding the time to do so without quitting your job, leaving school, freeing your dog on the street to fend for himself, and so forth. With all that said, you do get a lot of content in the base game and don't absolutely need to shell out more money. But the lure of buying those instant-improvement pins is always very, very tempting.

One good aspect of the DLC comes with the new Country Club option. This feature lets you gather together online and play at specific clubs, just like in the real world where golfers join specific clubs and make them their homes. Coins are earned for rounds played at each club, giving you more opportunity to play those locked-out courses. This also works pretty well as a virtual clubhouse for players online, and even fosters a massively multiplayer online vibe within the game. It's easy to see how this concept could be stretched further to make an actual MMO game.

If you already have Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters on the shelf, think long and hard before buying its successor. The questionable additions like Tiger Legacy and the DLC sales pitches don't add anything to the playability on the links themselves, where it really counts. Still, the superior gamepad controls and enhanced Move support on the PS3 make the new game stand apart from its predecessor just enough to make it tempting, as long as you know going in that you're getting a mild upgrade on last year's model.

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• A lot of content with career mode, 16 courses, and more
• Revamped gamepad controls including extremely accurate putting
• Subtly improved Move controls
• Promising Country Club feature
• Paltry number of new features
• Tiger Legacy is a tedious waste of time
• Obnoxious DLC

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Tiger Woods ducked a question. But his answer was still revealing

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Tiger Woods during his Tuesday press conference at the PGA Championship.

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Don’t believe what you’ve read or heard: Tiger Woods can deliver in press conferences. When he fields a question upon which he’s happy to opine or reflect — often those queries relate to the X’s and O’s of game management — he can provide as textured an answer as any of his peers. At the PGA Championship on Tuesday, we saw and heard a glimpse of that when Woods was asked to assess the games of Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy. After referencing Scheffler’s unconventional footwork and McIlroy’s perfectly balanced finish (“It looks like a statue, right?”), Woods offered this insight:

“When you’re on the range and watching them hit golf balls or listening, more so listening to them hit golf balls, there’s a different sound to it, because they just don’t miss the middle of the face.”

Fabulous stuff.

If only Woods was always so generous with his thoughts, particularly when it comes to the tenuous state of men’s professional golf. The craziness reached another level of crazy Monday when man-about-golf Jimmy Dunne, who helped broker the PGA Tour’s 2023 framework agreement with the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, announced he had resigned from his post as an independent director on the Tour’s Policy Board, in part because the board has made “no meaningful progress” toward a deal with the PIF. Dunne added that he was feeling, in his role, “utterly superfluous.”

Superfluous — “exceeding what is sufficient or necessary,” according to Merriam Webster — is not, and never will be, an adjective that you would apply to Tiger Woods. Conversely, Woods is needed, essential, longed for . When he plays, the world watches. When he limps, the world winces. When he speaks, the world leans in and listens. Not just his fans but also his peers, Tour and PIF brass and just about anybody else with a stake in the game. Which is why last summer 41 of Woods’ fellow players — Scheffler and McIlroy among them — banded together and demanded that the Tour create a board spot for Woods. The men’s pro game was reeling, the players were still seething from Dunne’s secretive dealings with the Saudis and, in the players’ eyes, the Tour’s governance needed a shakeup. It needed, among other things, a dose of Tiger Woods.  

And so it was. Woods, who had never previously held a board seat or shown much interest, at least not publicly, in muddying his hands with Tour management, was in. The move was significant not only because Woods was assuming a position of influence but also because his appointment meant that the players on the board — Woods joined McIlroy, Patrick Cantlay, Charley Hoffman, Peter Malnati and Webb Simpson — now outnumbered the five non-player members. The pros had seized majority control. In a statement, Woods said, “…the players will do their best to make certain that any changes that are made in Tour operations are in the best interest of all Tour stakeholders, including fans, sponsors and players.” 

One of the first times Woods was publicly asked about his new role came in February, at the Genesis Invitational. What, Woods was asked, would he say to fans who have grown disenchanted by the endless talk of money in men’s pro golf? It’s a common question in press rooms these days. Woods spoke of the importance of having “the best players play,” and also of the value of history, tradition and “pathways” to the Tour. He also referenced the Strategic Sports Group, which just a couple of weeks earlier had agreed to invest up to $3 billion into the Tour’s new for-profit arm, PGA Tour Enterprises. The consortium, Woods said, will “provide us with information and help and trying to create the best tour we could possibly have.”

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If you were one of those disenchanted fans, perhaps you were hopeful to hear more from Woods.  

A couple of months later, at the Masters, Woods was asked about the first in-person meeting he and his fellow board members had had in March with the PIF’s chief, Yasir Al-Rumayyan . “I don’t know if we’re closer, but certainly we’re headed in the right direction,” Woods said. “That was a very positive meeting, and I think both sides came away from the meeting feeling positive.”

Again, perhaps you were hopeful to hear more.  

On Tuesday, more questions for Woods, whose Tour C.V. seemingly has been growing by the month. Flip past the beefy “Accomplishments” section (82 Tour wins, yadda yadda) to “Work Experience” and you’ll find:

-Member, PGA Tour Policy Board , 2023-present -Vice Chairman, PGA Tour Enterprises Board , 2024-present -Member, PGA Tour Enterprises’ Transaction Subcommittee , 2024-present

Woods suddenly has a hand in everything; he’s so busy, in fact, that he said he may not have the bandwidth to take on more important role for which he is on the short list, the 2025 Ryder Cup captaincy. Woods assumed the Transaction Subcommittee post earlier this month, and it’s a critical one when it comes to shaping pro golf’s future, because the members of that seven-person committee — which includes two other players, McIlroy and Adam Scott — have been bestowed with exclusively handling all direct negotiations with the PIF. They’re the new Jimmy Dunnes.

Still, despite Woods’ growing responsibilities, there’s at least one duty that he still appears reluctant to take on: communicating the status of Tour-PIF relations to the outside world. On Tuesday, he was asked several questions on the matter. About the state of the negotiations (“ongoing; it’s fluid; it changes day-to-day”); about provisions he’d like to see as part of a deal (“…we’re making steps. That’s all I can say”); about Dunne’s characterization of his role being “superfluous” (“his role and his help…has been great”).

Other players have been more forthcoming. Rory McIlroy’s candor and thoughtfulness is well documented, but there are other examples. Max Homa , when asked Tuesday about fans being turned off by all the politicking, gave a nearly 400-word response that included this observation: “I don’t like where it’s going. It’s got to be exhausting to be a casual golf fan at this point in time. I don’t know why you would want to hear about the business side of this game.” Jordan Spieth was colorful, too. When asked about the players seemingly wresting back more control, he said, “If you’re in the room, it’s very obvious that players are not dictating the future of golf and the PGA Tour. Like, it needs to be, you need to have everyone’s perspective on both sides of it, and everyone that’s involved within Enterprises. You have a lot of strategic investors that know a heck of a lot more than any of us players.”

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Ironically, the most revealing part of Woods’ Tuesday press conference came by way of one of his tersest answers. After Woods had skirted a reporter’s question about whether he’s personally open to the Tour negotiating a path forward with Saudi investment, the reporter doubled down and asked again, “Are you personally open to it?”

“I’m personally involved in the process,” Woods said.

That cryptic non-response is open to interpretation. My interpretation: No, Woods is not, in fact, wild about cutting a deal with the PIF but he’s not about to up and leave the table, either. It is what it is, as he likes to say. Woods is a hardened Tour loyalist, as you would be, too, if your name was etched on dozens of Tour trophies and all over its record books. A fractured game and multiple competitive outlets for the world’s best players is of no benefit to Woods or his legacy. In his mind, the Tour is the tour, the mountaintop, the measuring stick. Always has been and always should be.

The final question Woods faced Tuesday was a familiar one, on fans’ souring relationship with the men’s game. Woods acknowledged that fans likely have tired of all the scheming and squabbling, adding, “It’s about what LIV is doing, what we’re doing, players coming back, players leaving — the fans just want to see us play together. How do we get there is to be determined.”

Woods will be at the center of those decisions. Just don’t bank on him letting the rest of us in.

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Tiger Woods Is Back at Valhalla, Where Half a Lifetime Ago He Won a Duel for the Ages

Pat forde | may 14, 2024.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — He’s exactly twice the age now that he was then, a middle-aged man playing in the lengthening twilight shadow of his own greatness. The baggy pants and billowy shirt he wore while famously finger-pointing a birdie putt into the hole here in 2000 have been replaced by tighter clothes, layers of muscle and layers of scar tissue. Tiger Woods is back at Valhalla Golf Club, half a lifetime after one of the great performances of his career.

Back then, Woods was 24 years old and at the absolute peak of his powers, on his way to a Tiger Slam of the four major championships. Today he is an achy 48, hoping this week to play 72 holes in a major other than the Masters for the first time since 2020.

Yet even if Woods is a diminished threat to win, he remains the golfer everyone most wants to see. By the weekend our attention likely will be diverted elsewhere in this 106th PGA, but on a practice-round Monday, Woods was the only golfer who drew thousands along for his walk across this rolling bluegrass course east of Louisville, Ky. 

This particular demographic of fans probably doesn't give a rip about LIV Golf or the internal angst of the PGA Tour. The people just want to be near the aging legend as he walked among them—perhaps for the last time at this course.

“You the man, bro,” a Louisville Metro Police officer called out as Tiger walked from the 12th green to 13th tee Monday. The cop exhaled and said out loud, but seemingly to himself, “O.K., I got that out of the way.” This seemed like a box the cop needed to check.

Woods toured the front nine at Valhalla on Sunday. He canvassed the back nine Monday — by himself, no playing partners, though ESPN analyst Andy North joined Woods for the 18th hole. That followed a practice round over the course last week.

Woods was dressed in his new apparel line, Sun Day Red, after 27 years with Nike. 

Woods smiled blandly at the gallery as fans shouted comments, all of which he has certainly heard a thousand times before. He occasionally waved in acknowledgement of applause. He signed autographs for 3 1/2 minutes after his practice was complete. But mostly he was here to work, gathering intel on a course he knows but has changed over the years.

Woods flipped out his yardage book—with a Stanford cover—on every hole Monday. He took copious notes, especially on the greens. Assuredly he had some Valhalla observations from the old days written into the book, comparing then versus now.

The greatest change from 2000 to ’24 is Woods himself, of course. Triumph, scandal, a major car wreck and the mundane passing of time have all left their imprint on the world’s most interesting athlete of the last 30 years.

Woods arrived at Valhalla in 2000 fully deified, seemingly on an inevitable track toward becoming the greatest golfer in history. He’d won four majors to that point, with Jack Nicklaus’s record 18 looming in the distance looking easily surmountable.

He was coming off jaw-dropping victories at historic venues—a perfect U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, a blistering British Open at St. Andrews. Combined margin of victory in those two majors was a staggering 23 shots. Everyone was certain this PGA would be major No. 5.

Everyone was right. But it was far more difficult than envisioned, a dramatic playoff victory laced with pressure.

The man who pushed Tiger Woods to the brink of stunning defeat was a nobody . Bob May never won a PGA Tour event and only came close once, on a steamy August weekend at Valhalla against the hottest golfer in the world.

It took 75 holes for Woods to beat May, not shaking free of the journeyman until chasing in a 25-foot birdie on No. 16, the first hole of a three-hole playoff. Before that, May played the best golf of his life from the second round on, putting a pair of 66s on the board on Friday and Saturday to earn a pairing with Tiger on Sunday.

Woods led by a shot when they went to the first tee. Dressed in Sunday red, the expectation was that he would quickly put May in the rearview mirror and roll to victory as easily as he had at Pebble and St. Andrews. Instead, the two men delivered a duel that lives in PGA lore.

May birdied the second hole and Woods bogeyed, flipping the leaderboard. Then May birdied No. 4, taking a two-shot lead. Woods tied it up heading to the back nine.

May birdied No. 11 to retake the lead and continued to apply withering pressure with one dart after another into the greens. Woods kept answering, rolling in a short birdie putt on 17 to tie. Heading to the par-5 finishing hole, a staggering upset was in play.

May dropped a 15-footer for birdie, putting Woods in a do-or-die position. Tiger was Tiger in the heat of the moment, dropping a six-footer to send the match into a three-hole playoff. The two men were 18 under par, five shots clear of their closest pursuer.

Woods birdied the 16th, then held on through the last two holes. It was his third straight major victory, and he would complete the Tiger Slam in April 2001 by winning the Masters. There seemed to be no stopping him.

Things happened that stopped him, most of them self-inflicted. Woods reached 14 major victories in 2008, winning the U.S. Open in a playoff on a broken leg, then was felled by scandal in his personal life. He was in the field for the last PGA here at Valhalla in 2014, which was won by Rory McIlroy. Woods failed to make the cut in that appearance.

He woke up the echoes of greatness at the Masters in 2019, then suffered severe leg injuries in a single-car accident in 2021. He’s come back to play periodically, but hasn’t been a factor since then. He might never be again.

Half a lifetime ago, Tiger Woods gave Valhalla its signature moment as a major championship venue. That chapter, at the peak of his career, is over. But he still pulls fans to the gallery ropes when he walks by, hoping for one more glimpse of greatness.

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Tiger Woods changed professional golf. Now he’s trying to save it

NASSAU, Bahamas — The last decade of Tiger Woods ’ career has been a series of stops and starts, the golf world grasping for each and every comeback before he goes away once more. The promise of another new beginning has brought this group here, waiting patiently for a Mercedes-Benz much like the ones that have ferried the other key partners to this part of Albany Golf Course.

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But then Tiger Woods just appeared, seemingly from thin air. He walked around the corner of the white tent — alone — like he was simply on his morning stroll and said, “Hey, guys,” to the waiting media. The No. 1 player in the world is in the field at this relatively obscure golf tournament in the Caribbean, as is the 2023 PGA Tour champion, two 2023 major winners and most of the rest of the biggest names in golf. But as it always does, all attention focused instead on the man currently ranked No. 1,328 in the world.

At first, as Tiger Woods sat down for his annual press conference to preview the Hero World Challenge — a no-cut, limited-field event he hosts for himself and his PGA Tour buddies — and discuss the state of Tiger Woods, he looked just like the 15-time major champion that he is. But as the conversation unfolded, the reality of the new person in front of us became clear. Here was Tiger Woods, PGA Tour policy board member. Tiger Woods, the co-founder of a new golf league. Tiger Woods the investor, the restaurateur, the course designer. Tiger Woods , the 47-year-old legend transitioning toward and becoming the authoritative, senior presence of a sport in crisis.

“Don’t say senior,” Woods quipped. “I’m not there yet. I’ve got a couple more years.”

Woods is also a golfer, again. And he plans to keep playing for a while, saying his right ankle is strong enough to allow him to walk 18 holes without pain following his post-Masters subtalar fusion surgery. He even hinted at playing a once-a-month schedule in 2024, which would include all four majors. But very little about Woods’ focus Tuesday was on his playing ability and future career, joking, “I’m just as curious as all of you with what’s going to happen. I haven’t done this in a while.”

His latest comeback was the secondary storyline, the focus instead on the future of the PGA Tour and men’s professional golf. He was a politician/executive, talking confidently about each and every issue for the PGA Tour. He answered questions about the status of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia negotiations with the same conviction as if PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan was saying it. Maybe more authority, wielding his power around three different times to say Monahan making deals with the PIF without the players input “can’t happen again.”

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He drove home the need for the players to control their own future, the same need that led to players pressuring Monahan to add an extra board seat for players and for that seat to go to Woods. He spoke of multiple “other options” for the PGA Tour to find new funding if the PIF deal doesn’t happen. He answered questions about the new TGL league he helped start as a counter to the team model of LIV, the rival league funded by PIF.

Woods, one of the most idiosyncratic and ruthless competitors in the history of sports, is now operating as the leading force for change in golf.

Think about the way Woods talks about his body, in which he says his foot and ankle pain are gone but it also means he has to put pressure on other parts of his body. Now it goes to his knees or his back.

“The forces have to go somewhere,” he said.

For decades, Tiger Woods put his entire focus into becoming the most dominant golfer of all time. That golfer is fading. The forces had to go somewhere.

In April, two months before the surprise PIF announcement, a hobbled Woods played a Masters practice round with Tom Kim and Rory McIlroy. The 21-year-old Kim is a sponge for this kind of stuff, peppering Woods and McIlroy with constant questions ahead of his first Augusta National appearance. How would you approach this hole? What does the wind do here?

And Woods answered. He shared trade secrets and let one of golf’s brightest young stars in, just like his idols had once done for him.

“Hey, I was lucky enough to have played with Freddie (Couples) and Raymond (Floyd) my first year,” he said that April day with a smile. “And Seve (Ballesteros) and Ollie (Jose Maria Olazabal). That was incredible. And then Jack and Arnold, the Par 3 Contest with those guys. That’s what this tournament allows us to do, is pass on knowledge and gain knowledge from the past and apply it.”

Woods allowed himself to be nostalgic ahead of a major championship, a stark departure from his heyday. He shared stories of Floyd giving his advice on an approach shot by a gallery on No. 2 (“Well, you hit it right over at them, and then right before it lands, you yell ‘fore'”). He joked about a terrible tee shot in 2005 that set up his iconic chip on the 16th hole. He talked about his son, Charlie, and how he might not view golf with the same competitive vigor he once did, but it’s still everything to him. “So the joy,” Woods said, “it’s different.”

That element cannot be left out with Woods at this moment in time. Maybe once he was so obsessed with greatness that he didn’t have the bandwidth or the interest for such things, but now he can see he is the figure the entire golf world looks to, and he has the capacity to use it.

“It was an honor for him to kind of get the torch passed to him from Arnold and Jack,” said Justin Thomas, perhaps the current player closest to Woods. “So I think he’s looking at it as he wants to kind of pass that to whatever the following generation is.”

This is a phase seen often in the golf world. Palmer and Nicklaus aged into brands as much as golfers in their later years, and Woods was the largest business brand in golf history by his mid-20s. He launched the TGR Foundation with his family as early as 1996 and has since become a billionaire. Yet Woods’ presence continues to grow. He owns restaurants — The Woods in Jupiter, Fla., miniature golf-dining chain Popstroke and now an upscale New York City sports bar, T-Squared Social, with Justin Timberlake.

Woods was once the face of the EA Sports golf video games but now is on the cover of PGA Tour 2K23. In the height of the PGA Tour’s war with LIV, his venture capital firm teamed with Rory McIlroy to start the indoor TGL team golf league (which was originally slated to begin in January but has been delayed to 2025). And his TGR Design firm has created more than a dozen courses, multiple of which have hosted PGA Tour events.

“Tiger is intimately involved in every step of the golf design process, from selecting the projects to laying out the routing to providing shaping direction during construction,” longtime friend and TGR Design president Bryon Bell said. “He spends a lot of time on site during construction finalizing the golf strategy by locating bunkers and laying out the green complexes.”

But Woods taking on these roles is not simply symbolic, a name and a face guaranteed to sell a product. He is deeply involved, and that’s almost the point. McIlroy served as the players’ largest voice in the board room and was also often put in the position of explaining PGA Tour decisions over the last two years. He managed to find success on the course (the 2022 Tour Championship, two wins this season) but did so while always on the phone handling board duties. Then Monahan went behind McIlroy and the players’ backs to create the framework agreement in which Monahan and PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyad are attempting to create a joint company with both the PGA Tour and LIV under its umbrella. That only cemented McIlroy’s desire to step away from the board (Jordan Spieth has taken his place). But Woods doesn’t have those same playing commitments. He can pour himself into this, and pouring himself into things is what Tiger does.

“I know he doesn’t sleep a lot,” Spieth said, “but he’s spending most of his waking hours thinking about how to better the PGA Tour for the players. And he doesn’t have to do that. He could ride off into the sunset if he wants. We know that’s not his personality.”

Woods is constantly on the phone, sending emails or hopping on Zoom calls. “I think he definitely takes it very seriously,” Thomas said. “He doesn’t take it lightly.” There was a clamoring this fall, in the wake of a blowout loss in Rome, for Woods to captain the United States Ryder Cup team in 2025. Woods does not have time to think about that. “There’s too much at stake with our tour to think about a Ryder Cup right now,” Woods said.

Woods’ presence in these meetings is formidable, reflecting his stature. “He’s not stepping in to throw influence anywhere,” Spieth said. “It just comes with him when he walks in the door. He’s a listener and he has a lot of experience. He’s seen the PGA Tour go through a lot of different changes over almost 30 years for him now. He comes with that kind of perspective as well as somehow a way of recognizing what can be good for the PGA Tour and its entire membership when he’s never been an ordinary member, but it doesn’t seem lost on him.”

Regardless, it seems to have Woods energized, full of purpose. His golf game is not some crucial focus, as Thursday’s first round was the first time he even played 18 holes since making the cut at the Masters in April but withdrawing midway through the third round. He has no idea who will caddie for him next season and didn’t seem to put much thought into it. But when it came to questions about the tour, he jumped.

So he was asked: Do you enjoy being this presence in golf?

“Well, I enjoy the fact that I’m able to make an impact differently than just hitting a golf ball. I made an impact on the PGA Tour for a number of years hitting a golf ball and doing that. I can have, I think, a lasting impact by doing what I’m doing, by being on the board and being a part of the future of the PGA Tour.”

There’s a photo of Charlie Woods and his high school golf team celebrating the Florida state championship they just won, with a freshman Charlie finishing T-26 in the individual portion. In the background behind them, you can see Tiger Woods. He’s just standing there in a puffer vest, holding an umbrella in his right hand. He’s just a dad.

He talks about Charlie almost any time he speaks, saying he’s able to share a bond over the sport of golf the same way he did spending late hours putting on the Navy Golf Course with Earl. The recovering star carried Charlie’s bag for 54 holes at a junior golf event in early November. Few athletes have ever been as publicly connected to their father as Woods was, Earl training Woods so hard as a boy but then being the first to receive an emotional embrace after those sweet victories. And for better or worse, Charlie’s young golf career is already receiving a similar, obsessive sort of attention.

Charlie Woods’ team won the @FHSAA State Championship in front of Tiger 🔥🐅 (📸 Palm Beach Post) pic.twitter.com/jk3R9nNB5v — Golf on CBS ⛳ (@GolfonCBS) November 16, 2023

Because now Woods’ attention isn’t on his own achievements. Far from it. But they are on his son, and potentially on what his son will take part in.

“I’m sure there’s some kind of scenario in his head where he’s like, ‘Yeah, whatever Charlie wants to do, that’s great.’ But I’m sure he has some visions in his head of, ‘Oh, I would love to have Charlie be playing out here, and then the kids he’s playing against,’” Thomas said. “It’s bigger picture. I think as little as he’s playing, it’s very clear that the decisions he’s making and thoughts that he has isn’t for his own good, it’s for the betterment of the game.”

This isn’t about whether Charlie Woods becomes a PGA Tour golfer. It’s about the fact that one of the most hyper focused, compulsively competitive athletes to roam this Earth, who played one of the most individual sports there is, has shifted his thinking. He does not seem worried about himself. He’s worried about the sport. And history says don’t get in Tiger Woods’ way when he’s focused on something.

“I’m pleased at the process and how it’s evolved,” he said. “Also frustrated in some of the slowness.”

There he is. That’s the Cat.

(Illustration: Eamonn Dalton / The Athletic ; Photo: Michael Owens / Getty Images)

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