Tiger Playing in Fry's.com Open

"I always enjoy competing in my home state, and this tournament fits my schedule perfectly."

"John Fry and his company have supported the tour, and I've heard good things about the event and the golf course," Woods said. "One of my goals this year was to participate in a tournament I hadn't played before, and now, I will."

One of your goals?  Yeah right.  Couples said he wanted Tiger to play before the Presidents Cup.  It's funny how Tiger makes it seem like this is his idea and not "taking an order" from someone else.

Tiger is taking some heat off of Couples who in good faith commited to have Tiger on the Presidents Cup team.  Give Tiger a break, he's an adult, it would sound ridiculous for him to say, "Yeah, the only reason I'm playing in this stupid tournament is because Couples is making me.

It would of happened if he made the presidents cup team or not.

Good, the guy needs to play more events regardless

Should be interesting to see how he does in a weaker field.

Imagine how bad it would look if he missed the cut. On the other hand, if he won, freddy couples masterstroke?

I am also just glad he's playing. I always wished that the marque names would play more of the Fall Series.

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Originally Posted by iacas

Plus, Tiger tends to avoid the "low scoring" events because his game is and always has been geared towards making a lot of pars. Oh, he can get on a roll (or past tense if you prefer), but for four days, no, he's tended to avoid them.

I've heard the arguments, but I've never really understood them.  It seems like, even in weaker field events on slightly easier courses, the game of golf is still complicated enough so that the better golfer wins on average.  I understand the 'tailoring your game for the majors' goal that Tiger has had, so I could see him not playing in these events if it negatively impacted that.  But this isn't 2000 and he needs something to get his game back.  At this point in his career, the only professional reason I can see not to play in a weaker event is because you are afraid of losing it.

Exactly.

No matter the reason, it's good for golf that Tiger is playing a relatively unimportant tournament. Tiger's presence alone will boost ticket sales and TV interest. I know that if he wasn't playing I'd watch very little of this tournament.

the weaker tour stops are easier courses, set up less penally, which tends to level the field.  it becomes easier to for everybody to make birdies and doesnt really separate the cream from the crop.

I agree, when Tiger was Tiger his trademark was being more aggressive then the rest of the field, when the course is easier everyone is gonna be aggressive.