Tiger Woods Still Getting White Dudes Really Really Pumped about Golf
No matter how poor Tiger Woods’ performance is on the course, he still has an uncanny ability to get people everywhere fired up about the sport.
Especially white dudes.
According to Scarborough Research data and, more recently, Nielsen’s 2013 sports media report, approximately 85-87% of golf fans are white; and of that number, the majority are over 55.
These numbers, to many in the golf world, are revealing. But they’re also raising a number of questions for those that follow the sport.
The first, and most obvious question, of course, is “How are men from the Caucuses mountains getting TV reception?” And the second, but equally penetrating: “Is golf the only channel?”
“Well, yeah, now that you mention it, those numbers can’t be right,” said one TV analyst. ”One would assu...