Apparently Tiger Woods made his return to professional golf today by teeing off at the Masters. If you didn’t know this, you’re either from another planet or somehow managed to evade all forms of media for the last 2 months (If you didn’t know, please contact me and tell me how to do that sort of thing).
From ESPN to USA Today, every news outlet has been covering this story nonstop like the whole world revolves around it. In fact, ESPN.com used the headline “The Wait of the World” to describe this occasion.
I’ve been trying to find out if people really care about this as much as the media makes it seem like we should care. Does the average Joe really care about all of this…or is all this hype relegated for the TMZ crowd?
Let me ask this 2 questions and hopefully I’ll get some feedback:
1) Do you care that Tiger Woods is returning to golf today?
2) Has the media overhyped this entire story, or are they on par with what the average sports fan is thinking/feeling?
Tags: ESPN, Golf, The Masters, Tiger Woods, USA Today
April 8th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
1) Nope…golf sucks, I could care less about Tiger period, let alone coming back
2) I think the story has been overdone. He’s getting more hype now for his personal life than he is as a golfer; they have it backwards.
But more importantly, it’s golf, who really cares about golf anyway? lol.
April 8th, 2010 at 3:51 pm
1. yes, I care. But I’m a golf fan and would watch with or without Tiger. The tour has been a bit dull without its version of Darth Vader.
2. No, the media has not over-hyped the story. Tiger made golf relevant again and his every move was scrutinized before this incident. Even stock market trading slowed considerably during Tiger’s first apology press conference.
That’s not to say I’m not sick of hearing about it every two seconds, but it’s the biggest story in sports right now (and that definitely says something about how much the casual sports fan cares about baseball or the NBA).
April 9th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Who is Tiger Woods?