The crucial Impact Score comes from:. The eligibility rules only require a PGA Tour competitor to appear in five tournaments in at least one of the past five years. Sports Illustrated began with the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Rankings plus Woods and Rickie Fowler, matching all of them against Bryson DeChambeau , the subject of saturation media coverage, on Google Trends to measure search interest since the start of last season.
Twitter and Instagram followings were easy to pull down, as was Google News traffic. The embarrassment perhaps already extends to executives. The increase in the general popularity of the game, the increase in the demand for PGA Tour event tickets, the increase in sponsorship and advertising money and the increase in money involved in television contracts have all contributed to the overall increase in prize money. But, it is utterly impossible to mention any of these aspects without mentioning Tiger Woods in the same sentence.
The fact is that Tiger Woods has almost single handedly created a plethora of millionaires on the PGA Tour who would have otherwise never amassed even a hint of the money they are currently earning.
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