bloomberg.com - 2/20/2009
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Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Tiger Woods ’s return to golf may be a boon for NBC Sports, which will make its season debut covering the U.S. PGA Tour the same week. Woods, who has spent the past eight months rehabilitating from knee surgery, said yesterday that he will defend his title at the $8.5 ...
youtube.com - 2/26/2009
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(from NIKE) Both HQ and normal quality versions
available here. --- New 1-minute U.S. TV spot, which...
debuted for Tiger's return to the PGA tour (this week's match play tournament). --- Also starring Anthony Kim, Stewart Cink, Justin Leonard, Trevor Immelman, and Carl Petterson.
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Video: "The Good Life" by NIKE (w/Tiger Woods)
waitingfornextyear.com - 2/26/2009
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waitingfornextyear.com —
While not a Cleveland story, yesterday Tiger Woods
returned to golf for the first time since willing...
his way to victory 8 months ago on a bum knee. And it was no ordinary tournament or bum knee. Woods’ last tournament before surgery was the U.S. Open, which he won over Rocco Mediate. ...
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Tiger Woods is Back
spartyandfriends.com - 2/25/2009
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spartyandfriends.com —
Hey did you hear? Tiger Woods is playing
golf again. In fact he just teed off a...
few minutes ago playing Brendan Jones in Match Play. Tiger birdied the first hole to go one up. Whats Match Play?…Whats Golf? Who’s Tiger Woods? Yeah…right. Even if you hate golf - you know Tiger. ...
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Tiger On the Tee
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Tiger Woods Returns To Golf
Women Like Sports —
... he deserves some credit but I believe all forms of sales are down all over the country for nearly everything you can think of. Many are not spending on golf-related commerce due to other factors in the current economic climate. However, Tiger's return will certainly spark a new interest and maybe even increase spending for some. Certainly ticket sales for his first event will dry up quickly. The Accenture Match Play Championship where he makes his return next week is touted as a thrill for the broadcasters. A "boon" is predicted for NBC Sports as they will make their ...
Nets delighted to put Tiger in their tanks
SPORTS COUCH POTATO —
No athlete has as much impact on his sport as Tiger Woods, and his return to the PGA Tour this week provides a stimulus that can't come soon enough for the game of golf. Woods tees off today for the first time since undergoing knee surgery last June as he defends his title at the Accenture Match Play Championship in Tucson, Ariz. When Woods went down, TV ratings for golf followed in a big way. Quoting Nielsen Media Research statistics, The Wall Street Journal noted the average number of viewers who watched network broadcasts of the eight
golf tournaments in 2008 without Woods dropped 47% compared with the
previous year. If ...
A Wednesday Linkage Update
Fang's Bites —
Here's our linkage for today. By the way, please join my Facebook blog network, visit my store at Zazzle and if you can, buy a t-shirt or coffee mug, and you can always follow me on Twitter. I only ask these things of you every once in a while. Now to the links. USA Today's Michael Hiestand writes that the PGA Tour's TV partners hope Tiger Woods brings the casual viewers back to golf. Michael McCarthy of USA Today says Tiger's sponsors are hoping his return will earn dividends. The Associated Press reports that the NFL has cut jobs throughout its operations including NFL Films and the NFL ...
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Live Blog: Tiger Woods' Return
golf.fanhouse.com 2/25/2009 — by Shane Bacon Tiger Woods is back. What more is there to say? Woods will be facing a lesser-known Australian named Brendan Jones in the first round of the Accenture Match Play on Wednesday. We will be live blogging the entire round, starting at ...
The Roar Of A Tiger
totalprosports.com 2/26/2009 — Total Pro Sports - In the much anticipated return of arguably the best golfer known to man Tiger Woods is back, and he is back better then ever. So I hope everyone in the PGA enjoyed their time Tiger-less because it will be tough to compete with a healthy Tiger on tour. "After 254 days away ...
Tiger Woods numbers game.
sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com 2/26/2009 — Third and final round ratings for every PGA Tour event on broadcast since Tiger Woods' injury. Of the 18 PGA events on broadcast since Woods' injury, 11 saw a double-digit decline in ratings for third and final round coverage.Ratings for PGA Tour ...
Mad Love: Tiger Woods
theloveofsports.com 2/20/2009 — The best player of this generation is coming back and some people are questioning it? All this announcement deserves is cheers of joy and a helping of Mad Love.
Tiger Will Likely Return at the Match Play
waggleroom.com 2/17/2009 — Jason Sobel hears the same rumbling that I've been hearing about Tiger's PGA Tour comeback. He and I have both been hearing that it's going to be the Accenture Match Play which will see Tiger's return.
From Jason's piece :
Though I've ...
So Tiger’s Back…What Now?
spartyandfriends.com 2/20/2009 — I gotta admit when I was watching The Golf Channel last night and they were interviewing all of the players about Tiger’s impending return next week - I actually felt for the first time that most of the players did not actually resent him. To a man, everyone was spouting some derivative ...
Tiger will return to PGA Tour next week
msn.foxsports.com 2/20/2009 — Eight months after winning the U.S. Open on one good leg, a healthy Tiger Woods is returning to golf. Woods said on his Web site on Thursday he will defend his title next week in the Accenture Match Play Championship, believing his reconstructed left knee and his game were good enough to win.
Tiger to Return at the WGC Accenture Match Play
bankrollsports.com 2/21/2009 — The golfing world will finally witness the return of the living legend Tiger Woods after a long nearly nine month wait. Woods the sports biggest name and possibly best player to ever step on a course missed the majority of the second half of the season following his miraculous win at the U.S ...
Tiger Woods - The Robot Returns
theondeckcircle.net 2/25/2009 — That’s right. Today signifies the day that the God of Golf returns to his throne. The robot I refer to is, of course, Tiger Woods.
Just to clear things up, I’m calling him The Robot because it’s true, he’s a robot. He started out as the new hot golfer but people were slowly starting to catch ...
Woods scheduled to face Australian at Match Play —
SI.com - Golf 2/20/2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- All 64 players who qualified for the Accenture Match Play Championship met the entry deadline Friday, meaning Tiger Woods likely will face Brendan Jones of Australia when he returns to competition for the first time in more than ...
