{"id":435841,"date":"2025-07-17T19:40:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/?p=435841"},"modified":"2025-07-17T19:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:40:19","slug":"tiger-woods-responsible-for-golfs-rising-costs-says-chamblee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/tiger-woods-responsible-for-golfs-rising-costs-says-chamblee\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods Responsible For Golf’s Rising Costs Says Chamblee"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the early 2000\u2019s when Tiger Woods was making his rounds, he did many things for golf.\u00a0 Most importantly, he made golf popular in a way that it had not been before.\u00a0 It was an era that some called TigerMania.\u00a0 The American pro golfer\u2019s name was everywhere.\u00a0 People could not know the basics about golf and still recognize the name.\u00a0 However, Brandel Chamblee, despite having so much praise for Woods<\/a>, has said that he inadvertently led to the rising costs of the sport.<\/span><\/p>\n

Praise For Tiger Woods<\/span><\/h2>\n

On The Smylie Show<\/a>, Chamblee started talking about Tiger Woods and the impact of his legacy.\u00a0 As well as how it relates to the rise of LIV Golf.\u00a0 Specifically, how Tiger Woods\u2019 legacy led to the renegade league\u2019s founding in 2022.\u00a0 Brandel Chamblee essentially said that Tiger Woods managed to take the game of golf, a sport that has long been derided as boring, and made it cool.\u00a0 How Woods’ domination of the sport led to it being reintroduced to the Olympic Games.\u00a0 How Woods\u2019 legacy brought in so much money for the PGA that the headquarters looks like \u201cthe Taj Mahal\u201d.\u00a0 For his work, Chamblee has labeled Woods as the \u201cmost underpaid athlete in the history of sport\u201d.\u00a0 Even with how Woods was essentially the mascot of the PGA in the 2000s.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Woods Legacy Created LIV According To Chamblee<\/span><\/h2>\n

Chamblee then gets to LIV, pushing the purses to be elevated.\u00a0 Sure, LIV increased the purses with all the generous contract payouts and more money being on the line, but LIV wouldn\u2019t have been there if it weren\u2019t for Woods.\u00a0 According to Chamblee, Tiger Woods was the foundation that LIV Golf used to change the sport in the way it has.\u00a0 Interest just wouldn\u2019t be there if it weren\u2019t for Woods.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rising Costs<\/span><\/h2>\n

Golf was already an expensive sport, just for the players alone, due to equipment costs.\u00a0 However, Brandel Chamblee thinks that this is the one place where Tiger Woods inadvertently created issues for the sport.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe unintended effect of it is that he made the game hugely expensive.\u201d Chamblee said, \u201cway more expensive golf clubs, way more expensive to join clubs.\u00a0 I am not going to say that is Tiger\u2019s fault, but that is the impact of TigerMania.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Chamblee is correct on the prices.\u00a0 Brand-name clubs often run up hundreds of dollars.\u00a0 The TaylorMade Qi10 Driver that Rory McIlroy loves so much<\/a> can run up to six hundred dollars if there isn\u2019t a sale on the TaylorMade website.\u00a0 The green fees at the course that often hosts PGA events can be easily over a thousand dollars.\u00a0 Chamblee believes that the rising costs are due to Woods making the sport more popular.<\/span><\/p>\n

Golf After Woods<\/span><\/h2>\n

Tiger Woods has left a deep impact on golf<\/a>.\u00a0 In his prime, he was the world No. one for ten years, his name and face were on everything PGA, and he has made the sport as popular as it is today.\u00a0 So much so that LIV Golf was created to get a slice of that pie.\u00a0 However, the rising costs of the sport are a barrier.\u00a0 Tiger Woods has done so much for the sport, but the way Chamblee sees it, there is an unfortunate consequence for the sport that was already expensive.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Main Photo Credit:\u00a0 \u00a9 GREG LOVETT\/PALM BEACH POST \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the early 2000\u2019s when Tiger Woods was making his rounds, he did many things for golf.\u00a0 Most importantly, he made golf popular in a way that it had not been before.\u00a0 It was an era that some called TigerMania.\u00a0 The American pro golfer\u2019s name was everywhere.\u00a0 People could not know the basics about golf […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5429,"featured_media":435842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,246,19],"tags":[309,23],"class_list":["post-435841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-golf-news","category-pga","tag-brandel-chamblee","tag-tiger-woods"],"modified_by":"Taylor Craig","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435843,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435841\/revisions\/435843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}