Quicken Loans is done forking out millions to sponsor Tiger Woods’ tour event outside Washington, D.C.
Congressional Country Club has had enough as well.
Add those circumstances together and the handwriting is on the wall — the PGA Tour stop is probably going away.
Longtime golf observer and Golf Channel contributor John Feinstein, a member at Congressional, put his own smack-down on Woods:
“He’s (Tiger Woods) damaged goods literally and metaphorically.”
Woods, with all his issues, has become more and more irrelevant as far as today’s PGA Tour goes. The National, was originally started to benefit The Tiger Woods Foundation and sponsors were on board because Woods would, of course, be in the field. That’s no longer the case with Woods’ future as a player wrapped in uncertainty. Woods still has the Hero Challenge and the Genesis (L.A.) Open to raise funds for his foundation.
Congressional no longer wanted any part of it. Congressional is after another U.S. Open and the USGA makes it no secret that if you want to host a U.S. Open, you can’t be the annual host of a PGA Tour event.
As for Quicken Loans, the company would much rather tie its horse to golf sweetheart Rickie Fowler rather than the trouble-prone Woods. Good choice.
With no sponsor and no venue, it’s a pretty good bet that this event will be gone from the PGA Tour schedule.
The Tour is going to compress its schedule for the 2019 season so that it can wind up the season on Labor Day with the Tour Championship to cap off the FedEx Cup playoffs.
This is one tournament that will go away. There will be others as well.
For now, there’s no corporate appeal to fork out money for anything Woods is connected with.
Sorry, but such is life with an aging star who may not play again and certainly won’t reach the skill levels of the past.
If Tiger Woods really wants this event, he’s got hundreds of millions, let him sponsor the darn thing.
4 Comments
beege
I know what they can replace it with–THE DEAN FOODS INVITATIONAL your host phil mickelson
Tom Edrington
Bob, that’s Hilarious!!!
johnpostava
Sad to see the industry that Tiger drove to new heights for so long now kicking him to the curb. Yes, he has demons (who doesn’t?). No one among us has walked in Tigers shoes and forced, as a child, to live in the media spotlight since he was 3. A lot of people made a lot of money from Tiger’s talent and his unrelenting pursuit of Jack’s record. It disturbs me to see Tiger fall from Grace (even if it was due to many bad choices on his part). I hope he can overcome his character defects and find his way back to life….maybe not the PGA but possibly some semblance of respectability among is peers and his fans….
Tom Edrington
Sadly, Tiger has become Earl, who was a grumpy, unlikeable womanizer. No one taught Tiger on has way up that it doesn’t cost anything to be nice to people. Tiger has notoriously given lousy tips to hard workers such as restaurant employees, valets and other service workers. In the world it’s called karma and it has simply bitten Tiger hard in his posterior.