We keep waiting … and waiting … and waiting for the emergence of the next Tiger Woods — a dominant, dynastic golfer who will turn the PGA Tour and the four majors into his own personal playground.
As we watched the Arnold Palmer Invitational weekend leaderboards that included some of the top young players in the world, including the hulked-up, bulked-up tournament winner Bryson DeChambeau, it should be increasingly clear that there will never be another Tiger Woods.
In fact, if tournament fields were as young and deep a quarter-century ago as they are today, not even Tiger Woods would have become the Tiger Woods as we now know him: the transcendent golfer who has racked up 15 majors and 82 PGA Tour victories in his career. Of course it’s all just speculation and I’m certainly not saying Tiger in his prime wouldn’t still be the best player in golf; I’m just saying that maybe he would only have nine majors and 50 PGA Tour victories.
