PGA Commissioner Tim Finchem throws his weight behind the resurging Tiger Woods
PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem decided to throw his weight behind the struggling Tiger Woods and has now come out supporting the former world number one for his efforts to regain his lost form in the year 2012. Finchem has been the tour commissioner for a considerable period of time and will be enjoying another extension of four years to his tenure.
Finchem said. "I sense that his confidence is coming back on greens - not that he's ever said there's any problem with his confidence, but he's putting better and striking the ball well”.
Being the tour commissioner, Finchem not only oversees the finances of the events played in a year but also manages several of the outstanding issues regarding the on-going events in a calendar year.
It remains an incontestable fact that the rise of Woods almost doubled the income of PGA Tour in the past one decade and his subsequent decline in form and stature severely deteriorated the finances of the tour.
Finchem added, “Unless something changes, we seem to be handling a less-than-full-out economic situation, at least in the United States, in reasonably good form. We are making progress and going, maybe not the same rate we were during the great economy but a solid growth rate”.
The 14-major-winner has shown signs of recovery with a strong wire-to-wire victory at the season-ending Chevron World Challenge, beaconing towards a possible resurgence to his past zenith.
He played brilliantly at the Australian Open and the proceeding President’s Cup, where he defeated Aaron Baddley in the final round of the individual Four-somes.
For the moment, Woods has decided to kick off the current season with Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship on the European Tour.
He will then head back to mainland for the Pebble Beach Pro-Am where he will wrestle his way up the leaderboard after a lapse of ten years.
Woods’ resurgence is not only a ray of hope for the struggling PGA Tour, battered by the economic recession but will also be good news for the sport lovers all over the world.
Woods’ has remained as the highest paid athlete in the world and according to certain sources, his gross income surged to $1-billion.
Finchem also spoke about his hopes for the year 2012 and said that the tour will be leaning heavily on the budding players who have done well in the previous season.
The new emerging players will not only provide strong backup support to American golf in general and the tour in particular, but will also help luring in heavyweight sponsors in the course of time.
Finchem lauded the development of the sport and its inclusion in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the global acceptance it has achieved in the last decade.
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