PGA Tour Without Woods Is Deadly…Boring #PGA

I like golf. I like golfers. But if that is what the PGA Tour is going to look like without the sports’ most dominant and interesting player, then the guys on tour and the guys that cover the sport better get real comfortable with sex addicts, because it needs them. Or him. Whatever.

The Tour was in San Diego, typically Tiger’s first event of the season, and produced one of the least interesting, least compelling finishes and winner you are going to see. Ben Crane? Ben Crane is best known for being the slowest player on Tour. That’s the most interesting thing about him? That he is uninteresting and slow. And he won. Sweet, huh?

The most interesting thing about ‘next big thing’ Rickie Fowler was that he had on orange pants. That should keep people glued to their TV’s and running out to buy tickets.

Commissioner Tim Finchem must be terrified. And if he isn’t, he should be. The game is completely irrelevant without Woods. Hockey seems like the NFL by comparison. The WNBA has more star power than the Tiger-less Tour. Rebecca Lobo is a bigger name than Ben Crane. Rebecca Lobo still plays, right?

Phil Mickelson’s cheating with an illegal club isn’t even enough to keep the casual sports fan dialed in. I dare you to sit on the coach on a Sunday afternoon, with a leader board of Crane, Marc Leishman, Michael Sim, and Alex Prugh and not fall asleep. Watching those guys out bore each other, while Jim Nantz is talking, is like eating a whole turkey and drinking a bottle of scotch in a 80 degree room. The television equivalent of a bottle of NyQuil.

Tiger needs to come back and he needs to come back sooner than later. I don’t care if he is trying to close the drink cart girl on the 14th green, he needs to be out there. Phil Mickelson, as good and as popular as he is, is not a draw like Woods. He had a chance to win yesterday and even his presence wasn’t enough to make that tournament feel like something that mattered.

Hurry back Tiger, even if you still can’t walk though a Waffle House without propositioning the waitress. The Tour needs you.

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