Tiger Woods set to Leave Nike After 27 Years
Tiger Woods may be leaving Nike after 27 years Tiger Woods could be making a big move soon.
According to the golf podcast No Laying Up (via Front Office Sports), Woods could leave Nike after playing in the PNC Championship next week.
The podcast reported that fellow golfers Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy may also be eliminated.
Woods has been a Nike representative since 1996, when he was still 20 years old.
According to Front Office Sports, Nike has reportedly paid Woods hundreds of millions of dollars since signing him 27 years ago.
Woods was spotted wearing Footjoys shoes when he participated in the Hero World Challenge last week.
According to Golf.com, this isn’t the first time Woods has worn Footjoys, as he was also spotted wearing them at the 2022 Masters.
Nike was aware of this and gave the OK since it was the first competition since the 2021 traffic accident.
In 2017, Nike co-founder Phil Knight said in an interview with Bloomberg Television that Nike started recruiting players three years before they turned professional.
“I could see him coming from the front,” Knight said, according to Golf Digest.
“He won the U.S.
Junior Championship three times and then the U.S.
Amateur Championship three times in six years from age 15 to 20.
” He occasionally performed in the Portland area and we always invited him and his father to lunch.
He probably worked on it for three years before we actually signed him.
” When Woods won the Masters in 2019, Knight announced his support for the 15-time major champion.
Indicated.
“It wasn’t just a major, it was the Masters.
I got goosebumps and to be honest, I teared up a little bit,” Knight said, according to Fox News Radio.
“It was a long, tough battle, but he did it.
I knew how hard he worked, how hard he worked, and that was it.
” For me, one of the greatest moments in sports.
.
You know, Michael Jordan had 55 points when he had the flu, and he only went up a few points, but it was one of the really great points.
” Woods, 47, finished 18th at the Hero World Challenge.
Out of 20 players.
This is his first tournament in more than seven months, and Woods said he hopes to play one tournament a month in 2024, according to ESPN.
