Under the header, "Tiger Woods’ $15 million bonus was a bargain -- the PGA Tour owes him so much more," GOLFWEEK's Eamon Lynch noted the PGA Tour last week announced the final results of this year's Player Impact Program and Woods collected $15M to go with the $8M he received from the inaugural PIP pool last year. That is $23M "just for being Tiger Woods," who "adds immense value to the PGA Tour." Woods’ value to the Tour is "diminished only in that he can no longer compete with the consistency and frequency he used to." But he "still draws more eyeballs" than any other player. That PIP bonus is a "bargain for what he brings, and would remain so even if it were doubled." Not everything Woods contributed to the Tour this year is "quantifiable, even with opaque metrics."
On the World Cup:
- Chef Giulio Caccamo helps make the U.S. men’s soccer team feel at home in Qatar.
- On outskirts of Doha, laborers watch World Cup they built.
Also:
- How Hornets G LaMelo Ball became the star Puma needed.
- The NBA’s only all-Black broadcast crew was 16 years in the making.
- An NBA podcaster quit his job to play pickup hoops around the world.
- Roleplay off the field helps the Eagles on it.
- ‘What a way to spend a life,’ says Joe Starkey after 48 years calling Cal football.
- The Rams bet it all for a title. The tab is coming due.
